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I’m actually really surprised your truck hasn’t sold yet. It’s tough find Tacoma’s without a million kms on them
The bumper itself will rest on the winch mount plate so it will hold itself there. I’ll be careful not to add too much heat when finish welding so nothing moves around too much. The mounting bolts will all have nuts welded on the backside, 4 are like that from the factory, and 2 I’ll add. So it’s just a matter of ripping them off with the impact to remove.
Im trying to take my time with this one. Here’s my progress after about 7 hours, lots of measuring.
Here’s what I’m going For, and here’s where I’m at. I decided to leave the winch plate separate, and I’ll bolt the actual bumper to the winch plate. If I need access to anything I just take off 6 bolts and then get right to the winch. Instead of dropping the whole big heavy thing.
There’s a couple on Facebook marketplace, not sure if they’ll fit or if you’re looking for a black one.
Here’s my review of the plasma: it cut great, super fast. You need to be sure you’re cutting straight up and down, rather than at an angle. You don’t touch the tip to the material, So it’s a little hard to free hand. On a long straight you need to have a guide clamped on. On a project like this with lots of cutting you’d go through so many cutting discs on a grinder, it’s nice not to have to change them out and get covered in dust. Not to mention discs can get expensive. It cut through 3/16 no problem that was my first test. And we cut off a mount on the Jeep frame that was 1/4” and again no issue. I like the machine itself is really small and light. We only used it on 220 so I can’t say how powerful it is on 110. This unit does both it just comes with an adapter. Overall I was really impressed it’ll cut a 30” long section of 1/8 in like 20 seconds. You do have to clean up some of the slag though after. So a little added time there. But for complex cuts and tight to reach places it’ll be great. It cut through a painted surface no problem too. If it lasts a few years of use I’d be really happy.
We only used 1/8 probably should have used 3/16 for his but wanted to keep the weight down.
I know nobody signed up for Jeep builds but here’s the start of the stubby bumper, it was the easiest of the two so we started with this. It still needs a fairlead cut into, and then we’ll cut the top out for a winch to sit in
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Oh ya the tires are big, I love it.
The trailer offroad isn’t too bad, in low range you can lug it around pretty good it just requires constant momentum. I’ve only taken them on a few tough obstacles but I’ve never had to winch.
The trails are here are so tight in a lot of cases, that’s more the issue. I’ve been toying around with something enclosed vs open. I really would prefer another pop up. But a pop up with a space on the front or back for an atv makes it really long. I really want quick setup, setting up and taking down camp is never exciting for us. We either want to get to relaxing quick, or when we’re leaving, get it down quick!
We’ll see what happens, I’m asking 5k for my tent and trailer which is basically what I have into the trailer plus a little bit. In my opinion that’s a good deal, I won’t want to sell it in the spring though, I won’t have enough time to build another once work starts back up.
Definitely plan to lighten the next trailer. If I build another trailer I’ll probably do axle-less suspension. I’d also like to try to keep the atv in a low center of gravity, maybe making some spaces for the tires to sit in, to keep the atv low. The big tires on the trailer will give it the ground clearance it needs. I could also to try to French the suspension components up into the frame a bit. We’ll see how it goes, I’m not Going to build anything until mine sells. I won’t be upset to keep my trailer. I got new tires for my ATV. Pretty pumped
Also I got the steel for my bumper yesterday and we’re gonna start the mock-up tomorrow
Cool that looks fun, they’re easy to work on which is nice.
Do you mind if I ask, do you charge for labour?
I’d say overall marketplace is better. Marketplace uses your searches, and what you click on to show you more ads that would interest you. So you can search for something specific, or on your page you can see what FB has picked for you. It’s good in the sense that things that interest you are always popping up, if you’re the type of person that isn’t good at managing money it may be bad for you.
I like it because whenever Toyotas, or atvs, snowplows, equipment etc is posted, it shows me.
I think people screw you around a little bit less on FB too because their account is linked to their personal profile. So it’s like you’re buying/selling something to a real person and you can rate the buyer or seller. You definitely still get dumb questions and stupid offers sometimes but I find it’s not as bad. I’ve bought and sold a bunch of stuff this year and I’d say 60 percent was from FB and 40 to kijiji.
