A big thanks to the guys at Aluminess in Santee California for making me a great 55 pound front bumper that is super strong and gave me great front clearance. It was only a couple hundred more than one of those steel jobs and barely even tipped the scales, added about 28 pounds extra over stock. I put PIAA 540 driving lights in the fog light position and did the fog light mod to my truck that makes it to where I can have the fogs on with the brights.
I drove down to our storage tonight to get out our snowshoes and snowboards, it was snowing pretty good the whole way and the fogs just rocked!
So I did this mod about 6 months early, got the itch and now it is scratched.
Aluminum Front Bumper installed
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Kodachrome
, Nov 06 2011 07:14 AM
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 03:02 PM
looks great- they make a great product.
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 05:01 PM
Looks good -- burly, and yet light!
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 05:51 PM
Great looking bumper!
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 05:56 PM
Very nice bumper. Something I'm hoping to do sometime. As to the fog mod, what do you think of this?
http://danielsternli.../fog_lamps.html
http://danielsternli.../fog_lamps.html
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 06:52 PM
Very nice. Any idea what thickness it is?
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 07:23 PM
Very nice. Any idea what thickness it is?
I think the inner mounting structure is 3/8th and the outer is 3/16th. They told me some good stories of people hitting deer and even elk and coming out of it unscathed. I was going to opt out of the hoop but it added all off a couple pounds and makes sense in terms of hitting game....of which I hope I never do.
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 07:32 PM
Very nice bumper. Something I'm hoping to do sometime. As to the fog mod, what do you think of this?
http://danielsternlighting.com/tech/lights/fog_lamps/fog_lamps.html
I think it is dead on, especially only using them when needed. Mine are pretty much aimed in the way that he describes. I also like the fact that in an extreme case, I can just run with parking lights and fogs, forgo the headlamps in a gnarly white out, speed adjusted of course.
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