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12-26-2010, 05:37 PM | #1 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: centural kentucky
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two day brush guard
hey though since i didnt get any help with the home made lift measurments i desided to build a brush guard for the front. i like the factory bumper so i wanted to keep and i didnt want just a tube bumper and didnt want it to turn out baha looking either so i went with a pickup truck kinda look. i think it looks good and will look even better after i add the light kit. first day(yesterday) was design, cut, fab, tac and today was weld, clean, raddel can, mount.
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12-26-2010, 06:06 PM | #2 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Dorr, MI
Posts: 210
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Re: two day brush guard
Looks nice. How did you make the bends?
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12-26-2010, 06:19 PM | #3 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: centural kentucky
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Re: two day brush guard
Bends were made with cheap harbor freight pipe bender. You can see the bender in the background of one of the pics I posted
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12-26-2010, 06:22 PM | #4 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Dorr, MI
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Re: two day brush guard
What type of tube was it? I have been looking at the HF bender and just got a 25% off coupon today!!!
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12-26-2010, 06:38 PM | #5 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: centural kentucky
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Re: two day brush guard
the tube i used was 1/8 thick because thats all i had left. i can get 90* bends with 1/16 tubing but you have to fill your tubes with sand and tape your ends off. its not too bad for mr because i have a blast cabinet so i just use the sand from there and put it back. the bender i got from HF came with dies for 3/4, 1, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2 tubing and the only tubing i've ever been able to bend in it with out filling with sand was 2 inch di and 3/8's thick.(that is for a 90* bend, will bend any tubing to bout 35* with out filling with sand
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12-26-2010, 06:50 PM | #6 |
I Refuse To Get Stuck!!!
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Hilton,NY
Posts: 5,427
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Re: two day brush guard
The bender from Harbor is a pipe-bender,pipe is measured by ID(inside)Tubing is measured OD.Thats why it crushes the tubing.If you buy some black-pipe(like stuff for gas-lines in homes at Home-Depot,Lowes,etc..)You can bend it without worrying about it crushing(keep the seam on the inside of your bend radius),and its' fairly cheap.Its' more than strong enough for stuff like brush-guards.You can also buy schedule 40 pipe from a steel-supply.That will give the same bend results,but is much better pipe.They are a decent bender if used properly,everyone i've talked to that has one either says it bends great(pipe)or it just crushes it(tubing).Like always,use it as it was designed,instead of trying to make-do and you will be happy with the end results.Hope this helps.
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12-26-2010, 07:26 PM | #7 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Dorr, MI
Posts: 210
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Re: two day brush guard
Is the gas supply type pipe easy to weld? I may go that route.
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12-31-2010, 01:35 AM | #8 |
Getting Wild
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Baton Rouge, La
Posts: 89
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Re: two day brush guard
Sold plumbing supplies for 25 years, the domestic stuff welds well but the import stuff is hit and miss. go to a plumbing wholesale and ask for the domestic pipe if your going to welding. Import piupe means just that and could be from any country. The metallurgy of the different importers varies.
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12-26-2010, 07:57 PM | #9 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Walled Lake MI
Posts: 332
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Re: two day brush guard
Look at your HF 25% off coupon. I got one by email last week & it is only good for Jan 1.
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12-26-2010, 08:10 PM | #10 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Dorr, MI
Posts: 210
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Re: two day brush guard
yep, mine says that also!!!
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