Brought my 2006 Mitsubishi Montero to a fabricator

[FullMonte]

So I found a fabricator in Northern California and I finally got around to seeing him. Big John from www.4x4beast.com was awesome. He was able to fabricate some custom rock sliders, a gas tank skid plate and a wheel extender to fit my 33" Cooper AT3 on the back door. I want to give thanks to the Mitsubishi guys here on this thread for the ideas, especially Cnutco for the wheel extender and Montypower for his awesome build.

Like I said before, Big John was awesome! Very professional, didn't have any bias to him. I found some other places to scoff at Mitsus. He'll also offer a $25 discount if you mention my name.

Now I am currently having problems posting these pics. I tried using tapatalk, but I ended up uploading them up to the website from my comp.

Here are the sliders: I like how it sticks out a bit, gives me more room to stand on to reach my roof. It also gives me super clearance.


The wheel extender (Thanks again Cnutco!)


and the gas tank skid plate. I attached the pamphlet where I was able to show Big John what I wanted.

 

[jhill15]

Cant see any photos

 

[FullMonte]

should be up now..what a pain lol I tried using tapatalk to put the pics up and then use the computer to type, but there were too many photos.. I don't know how some of these guys like cnutco puts up his pics with such resolution.

 

[jhill15]

Looks great fullmonte! Sliders are pretty sweet! I like how they will dub as side steps. Thats one reason my wife will never approve sliders...cause she needs the side steps, lol. Did he fab up the rear bumper protection as well?

 

[FullMonte]

Thanks Jhill! oh no, the rear bumper was bought from ebay. I'm sure Big John would've just built a whole new rear bumper.

As far as using the sliders as steps, I couldn't find anything like that online, well made for Monteros.

Next is the front bumper, winch and snorkel!

 

[cnutco]

Looking good!

My "next mod" list is so long, I'm not sure what to do next...


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[FullMonte]

Thanks cnutco! Oh boy, tell me about it... It feels like I'm going at a snail's rate right now. I can't wait to get this bumper and winch on.. Do you use your winch often? I feel like once I get mine on, I could wander deeper into no man's land (since it's just mostly me and sometimes my dogs)

 

[Inyo_man]

Nice work on the fabrication!
Great looking sliders. Are they welded on, or bolted.
I've been looking as Asfir skid plates for the gas tank (made of aluminum), but the shipping is insane.
Are your skids steel or alum.? How thick are the plates?

Well done!

 

[FullMonte]

Thanks inyo! The sliders are everything I had hoped for. (well for now at least, haven't taken them out yet) but they are bolt on. As far as the skid plates, the gas skid plate is 3/16 steel, and the rest is from Bushskinz.com down in Australia. Montypower got me into them and they are 4 mm thick aluminium.

Here is a pic of the slider being built.

Here is a pic of the Bushskinz sliders before the gas tank skid plate.

 

[cnutco]

Thanks cnutco! Oh boy, tell me about it... It feels like I'm going at a snail's rate right now. I can't wait to get this bumper and winch on.. Do you use your winch often? I feel like once I get mine on, I could wander deeper into no man's land (since it's just mostly me and sometimes my dogs)

I have used mine from time to time, but it has not been needed as much as I thought. This rig just keeps moving forward!


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[ifixpc]

That is really nicely done!

 

[FullMonte]

Alright, having going through the pain of ordering a front bumper from China, I finally got it on. I'm so glad I didn't start a group buy.. It would've been disastrous..

I had my fabricator basically redo the whole thing because it came from China with no brackets and it didn't fit at all. The fog light casings were too deep and wouldn't fit with windshield fluid reservoir in the way.

Plus, there were no instructions and the brackets! How was I to put this on??

I now know why ARB is the way to go and I know a wise member told me to scrap this idea , but taking this gamble I decided to see this through..

Big John mage it work and was able to incorporate my fog lights!

Here is the bumper I bought from China

These were the only attachments they expected me to use, look at the precision drilling!

In this picture, I circled where the fog light casing would run into my washer reservoir

Big John completely had to redo the bumper

End product

Well this was an adventure in its own right. I'm pretty happy how it turned out though, I just hope the bumper and winch holds up when needed.

 

[Toasty]

Which company did you buy from? The Chinese I ended up working with didn't offer a Gen 3 bumper at all. Good you got it all sorted out, I had much better luck with the company I bought from but that being said i'm going to just make my own bumpers from here on out just because I like the way I do things better. I didn't like how they mounted the tubing to the bumpers either.

 

[cacattack]

Looks great FullMonte! Unfortunate that you had the issues with supplier and mounting, but looks like you got it all straightened out. Certainly looks like it will get the job done! Looks real nice! Wish I had someone that I trusted or knew for fabrication projects.

 

[FullMonte]

Which company did you buy from? The Chinese I ended up working with didn't offer a Gen 3 bumper at all. Good you got it all sorted out, I had much better luck with the company I bought from but that being said i'm going to just make my own bumpers from here on out just because I like the way I do things better. I didn't like how they mounted the tubing to the bumpers either.

I just found a bumper off of a company on Alibaba that would sell an individual unit.

Too bad you weren't making Gen 3 bumpers!