DCT1964

I just finished up this project based on info from another thread, it took me about 5 hours to cut, grind, trim and fit the pieces together then I coated it with a flexible bed liner coating.



Next the rear bumper!

Whitejk13

Looks great, write up? What ends are those?

DCT1964

They are the factory ends, I just cut them down to fit inside the hollow part of the plastic bumper and bolted them in place. It's a cheap build, I have $14.00 in doing this project, $11.00 of it was for the Dupli-Color Bed Armor and the rest was for the screws to bolt it together.

I cut the bumper 2.25 inches from the edge of the bumper bulge then ground it down to a clean strait edge then I cut the ends that were cut off down to about 5 inches in length and trimmed them on a belt sander until they fit inside the main part of the plastic shell. My bumper was pretty faded so I chose to spray it with the bed liner to finish it off.

The tools I used were:

Sawzall (Borrowed from neighbor)
Angle grinder
Drill
Belt sander
80 and 180 grit sand paper

Whitejk13

Awesome If I have time this weekend I'm gonna do it also, the spray makes it and I like this so much more than the bulky end caps you buy.

Thanks a lot I'll post it up here if I get it done this weekend

Mountain Man Tim

all the stock ends seem to do at stock length is collect mud.... and you spent more then $14! 5 hours of labor, mechanic work, so $20 an hour, $100 dollars in labor going by cheapo rates!

ill1cit

Did you trim your fenders or are they aftermarket?

DCT1964

The fenders are the Smittybilt XRC Fender Flares.

DCT1964

True but the labor I would have had to do even if I bought the after market end-caps.

TheWhiteBread

Looks really good!! I have the vdp end caps(only took 20mins) but I would say you probably got more satisfaction by being creative.

DCT1964

It's always fun to be creative, the rear bumper I'll have to cut, heat it up and bend the bumper into the shape I want then plastic weld it together but not before I've had several of these