Wanted to borrow for a few weeks 80 series rear bumper.

Flywest
It actual comes in 2 peices - well my GXL one did. The left and right sides and are both 'plastic.'

Are you making a single wheel or dual bumper?

cheers

Phil

Find out who does the conversions from wagon to try back I have been told from a mate whose had it done that they have rear panels ,lights ,bumper bars ect stacked up and are only to please to give away.
Sorry I cant give you a name but must be in the yellow pages.

Thanks for that advice - I tracked down TL Engineering in WA who do the conversions - but the 8o series is too old for them - they only do new vehicles so have no 80 sereies ones laying around.

The 4wd wreckers have one I can buy for $660........yeah - as if.

Looks like I'll have to rip the original off our vehicle and just drive round a couple weeks without one while I make the new one.

Least I know what to sell the old one for when I'm finnished! LOL.

Thanks indeed everyone.

Cheers

Wondering if maybe I've bot off more than I can chew...

The steel C channel I bought, is 150 x 75 x 7 mm thick - it seems wy too heavy for this application but thats all the steel joint could sell me in that configuration of 150 x 75 C channel.

Not sure that I can successfully heat and bend 7 mm thick steel even with the oxy torch, and cutting this stuff even with the drop saw etc isn't going to be easy.

Have mig arc and oxy set so really no excuse for not getting it right - its the steel engineering area I lack expertise in.

Do I just cut right thru the C channel at the appropriare angles then reposition at the right angles & weld back together, or just cut & remove the 2 x 45 degree 'V's out of top & bottom 75mm flanges and try to heat and bend the 150 section wth oxy until the top & bottom flange V's close up then weld those shut again, to radius the bends around to 90 degrees each side for the bumper returns?..

Not sure as yet which way to go...it's a lot heavier steel thanI originally intended.

That in itself would normally be a bad thing (weight and fuel economy) etc except the lad jacked the back end up a couple or so inches, a while back with a suspension lift of new springs and shocks to carry the extra weiight of his 175 liter long ranger tank and 146 liter LPG tank in the rear compartment.

It was a good idea, but overdone - even when loaded the back is still way too high and it oversteers a bit still - I'm hoping the heavy rear bumper and two spares etc will maybe lower those new springs a bit more - closer to what they originally were maybe.

I reckon completed this will weigh maybe 200 kilos all up with two spares mounted. That will mean 200kilos for bumper and carriers / spares, 175 kilos for diesel and 140 kilos for the lpg, total 515 kilos, over the back wheels/axle - maybe then it will sit back somewhere near level.

We shall see I guess.

Decided to loan the lad my truck for the week and I'll keep his to use his rear bumper!

Photo's to come.

Cheers