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I’m thinking hitting a deer might be the only useful purpose for the tubing....
You using an engine hoist now,,,,,!
Looks good. Hub should be 116mm or 4.56 inches. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: TexasRedNeck on March 19, 2019, 06:47:02 AMLooks good. Hub should be 116mm or 4.56 inches. Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI grabbed a hub diameter of 130.81mm or about 5.15" off the box that Don's new wheels came in. Guessing those might have been a little larger then the factory wheel.
Let me ask you a question publically about final coating your bumpers. Throughout this build we have seen attention to detail and fretting over the most minor things. All that, of course adds up to one outstanding product, which is readily evident in the pics laid out in these pages.So since you so, Well, I can't say the word, since I am striving not to be so coarse (See that Nate, the Warrant officer is trying to clean up his act). Well since you have put so much thought into these steel bumpers of yours, how would you recommend I finish them?I am not going to use the globular matter sometimes called truck bed liner. It is all cobbled up lookin' and these works of art deserve a finer finishing. Something near but a tad short of something Tex, the Redness of neck, would do for his beautiful trucks.Lets hear what you are thinking...
How about getting them chromed? :) They would definitely stand out and say look at me. Plus they could be a locating device for getting your mulch extraction team in. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The next step in the plan was to weld the center hub onto the carrier to help center the wheel. After tacking in place I thought the hub looked rather large and wanted to make sure that it was not to large for the hub spacing on the wheels. The OD of this pipe is 4-1/2" Here it is just tacked in place until I can confirm this will work.Then I inserted the bolts that will fasten the tire to the carrier. These are 14 mm bolts with the same thread as the wheel studs. These will be welded in place after confirming the wheel hub size.
Don you could use the KBS stuff on the bumpers, but then use the topcoat, too, which has the UV protection. I painted my rear bumper black with that stuff.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I believe Line x is still the best looking option, even after they had to redo mine after not doing it right the first time (but that wasn't the product's fault). If they do it in color, they mix auto paint into a clear base (instead of black), then spray the outside layer with the same paint so it "soaks" into the outer layer. Mine is matched to the truck, and is still perfect after about 5 years of Az sun, and hauling quite a bit in the bed. ...100 times better than Raptor I might add.... and the Black option now comes standard with UV protection, without painting it. ..like Tex said.They can texture it anyway you want, by holding the spray gun at different distances.
Dmax.. I posted pics in the dot thread so as to not dirty up this one.
175 maybe. I will put it on the scale before it ships.