Swing-away rear bumper WITHOUT a tire mount?
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Sorry for the off-topic but how did you mount those lights? They look like they work well as floods. I'm looking for something similar when I'm hooking and unhooking my trailer.
SOAZ
Tim and Kelsey get lost..
They are dust/waterproof sticky backed units from http://www.oznium.com/thin-waterproof-ribbon.
They work great!
thecriscokid
Explorer
#1 great set up. I like the bike off the back, table, cook set up.
#2 the lights! My neighbor gave me a 6ft strip of these years ago and I never knew who made them. Thanks for the link. I have been using them with 2 6v linked for years. almost too bright. I have been looking into mounting them just like that in my 80.
Back to topic...
SOAZ
Tim and Kelsey get lost..
Thanks!
I see what ya did there! :sombrero:
I used a 2 foot long strip along the back and a 1 foot strip on either side. They are bright enough to cook or do whatever else I need to do behind the truck, but they aren't as bright as some pictures make them look.
RangerMikeAustin
New member
To SOAZTIM: 1/24/2016. Just saw the post on the rear bumper mounted carrier you made for you Toyota. How can I get instructions on the build?
SOAZ
Tim and Kelsey get lost..
Thanks guys. Here is a bit more info from when I built it. Almost the entire bumper was from scrap metal. I would cut and tape together a very rough cardboard piece by piece and then make a metal one. It definitely took me a lot more time than a professional fabricator, but I was able to make it exactly as I wanted it.
Here is the base bumper build.
http://soaztim.blogspot.com/2009/01/building-custom-rear-bumper.html
Then there is the swing out portion which took a shockingly small amount of time to build. I think it took about an hour and a half. Nice surprise after spending days on the bumper.
http://soaztim.blogspot.com/2009/09/soaztim-gets-new-swing-out-on-rear.html
In the end, it was overbuilt enough to overload it. Which I did, a lot.
CBI Offroad has built tire-less swingaways. They are big in the Toyota crowd. They will custom build almost anything.
http://www.cbioffroadfab.com/
http://www.cbioffroadfab.com/
SOAZ
Tim and Kelsey get lost..
No, I took the swing out off for this heavy load. You can see the bare spindle on the right of the bumper. That bike is way too heavy for me to trust it on any sort of spindle swing out.
SOAZ
Tim and Kelsey get lost..
Yesir! I still get a ton of questions about that 4runner though. Haha!
I did love that truck. Except for a few issues due to the ligther duty nature of it, it was perfect. I miss how fast I could drive offroad with the great suspension it had. My 80 has the nice Icon dampers, but it's a school bus compared to that 4runner.
