Anyone tried to make a stock stubby using the factory ends and not use rivets or the plastic push pins to hold it in place? I want to make mine a stubby, but I don't care for the look of the rivets. So, I was thinking about using some bad ass epoxy or something similar to glue the ends where they would over lap and no glue would be seen either. I'm trying to make the look as clean as possible.

 

Yes, lots of people do it without rivets. Some use a heating element (torch or clothes iron) to melt the plastic ends on. When cleaned up, i like it more than rivets.

 

Ive seen some people use a heat gun and actually melt the two ends and fuse them back together and it looked great! There are a couple threads on here with pictures and comments/questions, just search for em.

 

I cut the ends except for the front plastic. Then I took a propane torch, heated it up and bent it back. Then I just took a hot knife and melted the pieces together. Its not 100% cosmetically appealing, but I like it, it works and I'm buying a new winch bumper in a little bit anyway.

 

Is it a pain to cut thru the metal piece on the bumper?
or did you go thru it like butter?

 

I did mine and cut new ends from a Rubbermaid tub. Used the hot iron trick to melt back together, sanded down the edges and hit it with bedliner. As for the metal part of the bumper, my dremel with a composite wheel cut it pretty easy.

 

That turned out great!! Don't suppose you did any kind of write up on it? That is how I'd like mine to look. So that's just cut out 'homemade' end caps bedlined? Love it!

 

Just finished mine the other day too, I got probably 95% of my information from this thread.

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...h-covered-ends...

You will probably have to tweak it a bit to make it work for you. Good luck!

 

Thanks for the link!!!

 

looks nice!