I cant leave well enough alone. I bought a new truck in Dec. of last year, and I have waited about as long as I could to modify it. With the exception of a homemade gooseneck hitch that integrates into the factory gooseneck prep cross member, and changing the side steps, the truck is completely as it was when I bought it.
That's about to change.
One of the perks of being an ag mech/shop teacher is that I can have my students build projects for me when I don't have time to build them myself. Ordinarily I do it al myself because Im extremely particular about the appearance of the final project, and my students don't have the same attention to detail as I do. But, Ive been extremely busy over the last few months and decided that I had a couple of students that could probably get it done to my standards with some extra supervision. This also gives them a project they can enter in the county fair.
We are building 2 of them (one for me and one for my dad) out of some recycled square tubing I acquired from the local power plant. The plan is to
make them similar to the one on my old Chevrolet.
So far they have cleaned off the surface rust and tacked one of the main frames together, and have started cutting the angles on the second. The bottom tube looked like the top pieces when we started. The plan is to mounts using boxed frame mounts made of 1/4" plate and skirt the bumper with 1/8" diamond plate, just like the last one. I am also going to be adding a bracket to mount an LED light bar in the air gap on mine, but my dad's will be left open because I don't want to restrict any airflow to the intercooler on his Cummins. Mine is a 6.4 Hemi so I don't have anything behind the bumper that needs cooling, so the light bar wont affect any airflow to critical cooing components.
That's about to change.
One of the perks of being an ag mech/shop teacher is that I can have my students build projects for me when I don't have time to build them myself. Ordinarily I do it al myself because Im extremely particular about the appearance of the final project, and my students don't have the same attention to detail as I do. But, Ive been extremely busy over the last few months and decided that I had a couple of students that could probably get it done to my standards with some extra supervision. This also gives them a project they can enter in the county fair.
We are building 2 of them (one for me and one for my dad) out of some recycled square tubing I acquired from the local power plant. The plan is to
make them similar to the one on my old Chevrolet.
So far they have cleaned off the surface rust and tacked one of the main frames together, and have started cutting the angles on the second. The bottom tube looked like the top pieces when we started. The plan is to mounts using boxed frame mounts made of 1/4" plate and skirt the bumper with 1/8" diamond plate, just like the last one. I am also going to be adding a bracket to mount an LED light bar in the air gap on mine, but my dad's will be left open because I don't want to restrict any airflow to the intercooler on his Cummins. Mine is a 6.4 Hemi so I don't have anything behind the bumper that needs cooling, so the light bar wont affect any airflow to critical cooing components.
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