ZJ Rear Bumper (Now Painted & On)

[JeepsterJay]

Well I am almost finished fabbing my rear ZJ bumper.

Here are a few pics...















I used 18" strips of 2"x2.5"x3/16" angle here because the uni-body frame sucks & if I did not use something here I would have ripped the bumper off in no time & to mount my gas tank skid to, I drilled 4 - 1/2" holes in it & am going to weld 1/2" nuts to the side closest to the gas tank to bolt the gas tank skid to.

[Repete]

Nice design. I like it

One question... I notice that your bumper end caps lines up with same angle as the rear fender just behind your tire. Any thought that if you go with larger tires that you're going to have to trim that back? (when I put 33s on my XJ, I had to trim the rear fenderwells)

[bill richards]

ZJ's don't flex backwards like a shackled XJ would.

Bill

[JeepsterJay]

Here are a couple of pics of the rear bumper painted & installed.

[MudMagnet]

nice work but i would have added something on the side like a ramp so if you come off something with your rear tire it lands on it and slides right over and off, the way you have it if the rear tire comes off something it will end up between there and catch leaving you to dig out your highlift and start stacking rocks

[Creepy]

here's mine. pretty similar, it's hard to make anything much different and look ok.

i got what mudmagnet is saying there, works great.
i just welded in a big triangle.

you can see it in this pic easy.