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Thanks. The rear was more work than I thought but it was $50 JK bumper on OfferUp and the perfect width. I decided to leave the front outer corners on until I have the time to finish it.Love the steel bumpers.
That is quite the bumper. Which brand is it, and how fabricating did you have to do to get it to mount up.
From the info on the add and a little searching, I believe it's an EAG bumper for an 07-18 JK sold on Amazon. It looks like the attached picture but the guy didn't have the tire carrier for it. Didn't matter much to me since I had the move the pivot to the drivers side to match the door swing. As for mounting, I cut the brackets on the bumper down, cut the trailer hitch cross bar out and raised it to the level where the bumper would be. I cut off the stock trailer hitch mount off the cross bar since the bumper already has one. Plated the driver's side and ran additional support to carry the weight of the tire carrier. I made some cardboard templates for how I wanted the sides to finish up to the body and cut up filler pieces from an old WJ ARB bumper and welded it all up. In all I ended up with a lot less overhang and added departure angle.
Up front I have OME 927's and Bilstein. In the rear I changed out the OME & Bilstein and currently running a shortened WJ Metal Cloak springs and 10" Fox shocks. The rear was too soft and bottoming out even at mild speeds.
What rear bumper is that?
I gave some details of the rear bumper in post #7
I ran 2x2 .250 into the "frame" and another 2x2 perpendicular under the rear bottom side of a winch plate I picked up on Offerup. I used 3 3/8" grade 8 bolts at the sides and 2 from below. I cut and added steel plate to give it support and look good for me. Just it for a few good pulls with no issue. Still need to finish a few things but I got distracted cutting out the wheel wells to just below the headlight and welding most of it back up. Just another project waiting to get finished. At least I was able to get rid of the plastic bumper.
