so this is my first post...Im a junior in highschool with not much cash, but i managed to get a 1992 xj 4x4 sport 5 speed. i bought it with 132k on it and got it for $ 1300 licensed and registered. pretty much stock except for a steering stabilizer and the 30" tires, and some small foggers. today my dad and I started to build my rear bumper. my first time using a torch to cut steel, but i think i did decent.

 

No pics

 

Good start keep the thread updated!

 

Just make sure if your ever gonna do any recovery with it you extend it past those stock mounts! If you want I can hook you up with pics and stuff of all the ways people have done this. I'v been doin my research for a rear bumper build ill be doing here in a little while. Can't wait to see what direction you're takin this thing! Tube plate what?

 

well im planning on adding d rings to it also, for recovery...and ive seen them ounts that bolt into the frame rails, but is there any other way to make it stronger, using the mounts ive already made?

 

As in using the stock eight bolt holes that point front to back?

 

yeah, ive seen some one do tie ins to those from the stock mounts, without making the whole mount driectly go to those

 

Yeah you can tie it in from those with a drop bracket thingy that goes back to the factory hitch mounts. This will require nut strips if you don't have a hitch but they are pretty easy to make. Ill put up a picture of what I'm talking about later cause I'm on my phone right now

 

ok that would be great. i couldn't get any work done on it today because i had to help a friend change a wheel bearing in his car. it ended up taking 6 hrs haha but we got it. tomorow i plan on making the rest of the mounts and tacking the whole thing together.

 

Keep it up!

 

what size metal r u runnin?
and im a junior also and i just finished a rack but i want to build a rear bumper also!

 

Xjeeper you sound exactly like me but I'm a senior Haha

 

ahah and we almost have the same setup to ha

 

Thats just like me I'm a Jr. Too all my money goes in to my jeep, keep workin on it, you'll be obsessed soon just like me! Haha

 

That ship has long since sailed. To the op, what I think I'm gonna do is take a piece of 1x3 solid stock and open the unibody rail behind the factory mounts drill and tap holes in it and use the factory hitch holes and put d rings on that and build the tube around it so it will be pulling directly on the u.b.