$200 DIY Bumper! How to build the ultimate Tacoma rear bumper for under $200
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2020
- Cut file for mounting brackets available here: www.overlandunderbudget.com/s...
Stage 1 of the DIY bumper series! Build a simple and badass rear bumper for your 1st gen Tacoma for less then $200! This bumper weights 81lbs which is 2lbs less then a stock bumper with tow hitch.
Cut file for mounting brackets available, use it for your own plasma table or get your parts in a couple days from SendCutSend.com
Brackets have been fitted on: 2001 double cab Tacoma and 2001 Reg cab and should be universal for all 1st gen Tacoma's although I haven't had a chance to check more years in person.
More projects and photos Instagram @overlandunderbudget
I know this video is long! I could make it shorter, but i wanted to leave in as much as i could to make it as easy as possible for you guys to build your own.
Stage two will be adding the swingout tire carrier and drop table!
Step by step PDF guide coming soon!
Don't need help? here's the parts i used.
Tubing: 3x5 inch 3/16th wall
Clevis mounts: www.amazon.com/Shackle-LX-905...
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18:17 Pro tip... when welding D ring hangers to a bumper make sure you place then directly in line with the frame of the vehicle. If possible, weld them to the same runer that atatches the whole thing to the frame.
Now, Ideally you would seld them directly to the frame tips (with frame extension or using any method) and have them independent of the bumper.
But what you did is actually quite good
Super excited for stage 2 adding the swing out tire carrier!
We are still waiting :D
@@sehpatr4724 comes out tomorrow morning at 8am! (12/2/2020)
Thats a man after my heart. I have many Pelican coolers, and three Forney welders, and a plasma cutter. If a Yeti owner ever uses a Pelican they will burn their Yetis.
The reinforced collar around the receiver is meant to face backwards. It keeps the hitch from wallowing out or ripping the tubing from side loads from a trailer.
It's amazing you're only the second person to mention this in the comments. RUclipsrs doing fabrication but not sure exactly what everything is.
Came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed this. Had to go look at my truck to be sure.
Awesome resourcefulness using what you have. Love the angles and explanation all the way through. Very useful for people trying to replicate the same setup. Keep the great content coming!
just subscribed!! i think you may be pissing off all the big players selling bumpers for 800+ bucks hahaha. I'm definitely going to model your bumper to build one for my 3rd gen 4runner
Hey mate, just tune your wire speed a bit more, till it welds smooth
Ok great! So faster speed. What’s typical? Or is it based more on feel. Would say 18v and 200 ipm be right?
Inside the door should be a chart, it's a good place to start.
@@OverlandUnderBudget it’s variable with power. Just adjust it till your sizzle is consistent like frying bacon!
...awesome video btw! Just might jump into a plate steel bumper build for my FJ!
it’s all about the sound of the welding!right?
I agree on the wire feed speed being low.
Awesome video as usual. Quick tip, when cutting the slots for the clevis mounts you can drill a hole at each end of the slot and then connect the outer edges of the holes with the cut-off wheel. Might make it a bit easier. Sweet video and thanks for all the budget how-to info you've been putting out!
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i love that you leave everything in to explain step by step
Nice build gives me ideas on what I want to do also like that you are using basic tools that don't cost a lot makes me more confident on being able to tackle my own build great channel
Love the bumper. One thing we use to do with our 3" round bumpers was to drill a hole on the backside and add a tire valve stem. Next, we would drill another hole, tap it and add an air hose quick connect fitting. Fill it full of air and check for leaks. Now you have an air tank at your disposal while in the woods.
That came out looking fantastic. Love the thought process as you went through the build. Thinking through your different options on how to make it different or better. Very nice work
I just built a bumper like this last weekend you should cut and recess your receiver tube into your bumper it'll be way stronger and you'll have improved ground clearance anytime you can weld on all four sides it's going to be stronger than just holding onto side like you did and it looks cleaner also that thick flange on the front of the receiver tube is designed so you don't rip the front of the tube when you exert a sideload on the tube. On that bent up flat stock you use as a gusset for your hitch would be cool if you cut some holes in it to be for your Breakaway chain hook if you ever tow a trailer
The wrong way reciever tube is what you should of started with.
As my favorite tuber once said, “A grinder and paint makes the welder I ain’t!” -@AvE
New sub, just wanted to say the content I've seen so far has been awesome! Makes me really want to learn how to weld and work on something for my second gen!
Subbed because humble straight up guy helping the 4x4 community
Love all your fab work on the tacoma, have convinced me to invest in my first welder / fab tools!
This is exactly why I share my projects! You are going to love being able to weld
New sub here man. Great vid, I just learned how to weld for my job and fabricating a bumper for my budget overland build is a goal I now have.
I made a living welding. And you did a fine job young man.
Just watched your video. Nice job for a immature fabricator. Only problem I see is you welded the receiver tube in backwards, but you know that! Great job!😂
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Outstanding work!
Excellent video! Keep them coming. I love your channel.
What a great video. Really appreciated the explanation throughout the whole video. The best video out there for us diyers.
sOOOOOOOO cool you are selling those brackets !!! Thanks for doing that !
dude! you are so talented! holy crap!
Excellent choice in truck, saw, and watch. Great video. Keep up the great work.
Thank you Bryan!
Fantastic Work! Form and Function. Cheers!
Nice work!
Definitely going to use your cut files when I get around to building my bumper. Thanks for making those and making them accessible.
Glad you like them, thanks man!
Awesome! I collected ideas from your video. I'm decided to install it into my 2011 Tacoma. watching from Chino Hills, ca
awesome !!! I just destroyed mine! perfect timing that you're channel cross my path!!!!! very grateful!! thanks
Dude I am so excited to watch this video and build this barber out. Thank you
Heck ya Joseph!
Thus cut file is going to be super helpful. I appreciate you!
Thanks man!
Watching your videos, you remind me of the A Team. Those guys could build anything!!! And it seems you can too.
I don't have a Tacoma, I have a Dakota 4x4, but I am still following your channel for ideas. My brackets will have to be of a different design, but the gist is there for making a similar bumper for my own truck. I am also going to incorporate this style for a minimalist front bumper, just beefy enough for a hitch and some brush guards. Thanks for the simple instructions and ideas.
heck yes this is exactly why i enjoy making these videos. Sometimes you just need a example of a way to do something. Then you can tailor the idea to your specific needs!
Great video reminds me of myself whenIwasyounger. Wish I had a friend like you when I younger to do stuff like this.
Great job looks amazing
This is wild. Great work! I wish I had the patience and ability to do this for my FJ!
Amazing video. Can’t wait to start mine!
I'm a welder and fabricater and I can tell u are a natural awesome job I'm building one for a 2000 dakota and been looking for ideas....Very nice work I promise your clevis can hold the empire state building there not moving
Very well done. I have a 97 Tacoma, already have the bed removed so I can do the frame repair thing, so this might be next. Be safe. Guy Speight
Exactly what I was looking for my 1996 Tacoma
Great video and great looking bumper! Thank you!
Nice looking bumper! I need to build something like that for my Suzuki sidekick, the stock bumper is missing the plastic cover skin so it looks pretty bad.
I build a mini version of a bumper like this for my articulating dump truck, it’s nice and solid 👍
Great project and great fab skills, thanks for posting!
Thanks Mike! I really appreciate it, and I love that dump truck! Plasma cutter in the mail because of you!
@@OverlandUnderBudget Right on! I think you will really enjoy having a plasma torch 👍
Hey if you get time check out my brothers channel it’s called Olympic Overland.
He is building a Dodge Cummins camper, part of the main camper box is going to be an aluminum military maintenance/ service box.
Ps if you ever take a road trip up to Washington let me know, we got property to camp on and would be happy to show you some of the cool places on the Olympic peninsula 🙂
Heck yes! I just found his Instagram and RUclips. Such quality content, totally going to grow. I’d love to visit sometime, we used to live Vancouver Washington and I love the PNW.
i follow a badass son of a bitch on youtube that built the awesomest frigging articulating dump truck you've ever seen in your life, really nice guy too, just search for 'articulating dump truck' you'll find him.
That came out badass 👍
Thank you!
That bumper looks awesome man! Great job!
Thanks! 👍
Dude love your energy and your videos! Thanks a ton for sharing .
Thanks Dan i really appreciate that! part two comes out tomorrow!
Fantastic video! This is giving me motivation to weld my own bumper next summer, thanks!!!!
thanks John! part two comes out wednesday!
Nice to see video after watching progress on Instagram 👏🏼
thanks man!
Oh. Snap you got it .. Good thing you caught that before.finishing it. 😆
Great video, actually this is what I need to start building things 😎
Good video, i enjoyed.
Awesome channel man! New sub here! I love your approach to practical and budget friendly overlanding.
Thank you so much! I’m really enjoying sharing my learning, projects and mistakes
Great work man, love the result.
Thanks Matt! excited for the part 2 adding the swing out, coming out tomorrow morning : )
Your prices are extremely reasonable, love the content
Thanks Simon
Cool functional build and step by step instructions.
Thank you David!
Amazing video! Thank you for sharing
I can’t wait to get my first Tacoma and start doing this, one day!
Heck ya!
nice job !! great video !
Love the vid brother !!
Thank you 🙏🏼
Nice job! Looks awesome!
Thank you!
Nice vids man very easy to follow. Def going to take this idea and make one for my fj80
Thanks Logan, much appreciated! I love those 80 series
Nice job, mate
Great how to video. im gonna build on for my 05.
Dude excellent video and channel, just subbed, keep up the good work
Well many thanks Creep cooter! haha
Great video
Great video, I've just finished building my double swingout rear bumper for my 1994 triple-locked FJZ80 and it is pretty similar build, the only difference is that my bumper attached to the shackles brackets that run all the way inside the chassis, and go through the actual bumper.
prices are right around what you mentioned, try selling your old OEM bumper, I sold my OEM tow hitch and bumper for 280$.. and I covered the price of most of the steel.
swingouts spindles are also welded through the bumper and welded from the bottom and from the inside of the rail(bumper) and after welding everything up, I welded the ends.
super strong with minimum movement if any (with a 35-inch wheel and tire, and a 3 jerrycan on the other side.
Great videos.
Hell ya sounds like a great build and awesome rig! Working on brackets that from straight through the bumper to the shackles right now!
Looks great man!
Thanks!
Looks Pristine Brotha looks real clean and fresh :)
Great project-thanks for sharing.
With a couple of air fittings that tube bumper can be a nice air compressor storage tank to reduce fill times-assuming your welds are air tight.
Moisture drain valve may be needed.
I noticed the air line under the truck-maybe you’re already planning on this?
Nice job man,it looks awesome.....lol “rice rocket😂😂😂
Great information you are sharing! For the mounting templates, do you know if they need modification to be used for a Gen 3 4Runner?
The white marker is called Soap Stone, great stuff.
Soap stone, I think. Great video, thinking about building one for my truck.
Just found the bumper I am going to build for my 4runner. Cant wait to see the swing out. I build one one time and didnt use heavy enough walled tube. Yours should be good. Waitingggggggg
Sweet, yes the swingout is a really fun project, hoping to get started on it this week!
Fantastic
this looks sweet! going to try building a similar one for my 1998 4runner!
Heck ya! Thanks man. My sister has a 3rd gen runner, I’m going to see if I can make some brackets for that too
@@OverlandUnderBudget Hey dude, I dig the bumper. Just asking cause I'd love a set, would you ever consider making the mounting brackets for the 1st gen 4runners? The demand should be high because everything's either overpriced or custom built. I've even seen some people have welded straight to the frame of their 4runner. Those mounting brackets would be a life saver, to more then just me. Thanks for reading, please let me know if your interested.
I love your truck
Awesome job 👌
Thank you! Cheers!
Just some helpful information when building stuff like this go to home depot or Lowes and buy a roll or ram board I think its $18 for 50' it makes the best templates and you can fold it and it will holds bends like metal there are some good videos on RUclips about using it for making templates.
This makes me want to buy a welder and probably a pipe bender after that. Great vid keep them coming.
Thanks Jason, do it!
a lot easier when you do not have blind spot detection sensors to deal with, so this does not help for my third gen, but I found the tire carrier useful. still... I have been watching your videos half the afternoon... nicely done.
great job, congrats
Thanks man!
Awesome video . New sub
My watching so many of these Tacoma videos getting me too anxious to buy new upgrades and all that. I gotta stay steady before I break the bank again lol
Awesome video/channel. Subscribed. Thank you for your generosity with your time. I am curious if there’s any reason you couldn’t utilize this bumper as an auxiliary compressed air tank?
Damn nice job 👍
Thank you!
No. 1 Good Dude! Thanks heaps for your love of helping ✌🏽
Haha thanks man!
Question, will the mounting brackets fit a 2nd gen? Solid work sir and excellent job breaking everything down. I’ve done some work myself on my 2nd gen Tacoma so definitely using your video to build my own soon! Thanks again!
Good job Sir. I enjoy your I can do that attitude. Just a suggestion though maybe next gen use boxed gussets instead of the strap for the tow hitch. It would be less metal and give you more welds between the tube and the hitch 12 welds vs 8 for your strap plus more support laterally than the strap . Please this is just a suggestion from an old structural fabricator..
4:33 my man ate those sparks😂 really nice work tho 👍
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Hi I like your videos and gives me sone ideas. I did notice something here. The towing hitch receiver you weld it looks backwards. The reinforced part it should be facing outward. Also the distance from the edge to the pin hole it’s measured from the reinforced side. Im not sure if that hitch receiver has the same distance on both sides. Another thing I would do differently it’s to extend that anchored to another point further in. Otherwise all the force to lift any trailer it’s made it by the bumper, without any help of another point. Anyway I like it and I want to make one for my 2018 4Runner. Will see if I’ll do it
Great job, major props on your welding skills! Will the mounting brackets work on an old Toy? I have 1991 Toy truck and would like to build a bumper using your brackets!
Awesome tacoma
Thanks Christopher
Very nice!
Thank you! Cheers!
49:08.... Im sitting here thinking "please dont bump the tailgate with that template as you are telling us how happy you are".. Super awesome job and your rig looks amazing!
Thank you!
Thanks for tunning in rob
Leave the end of the bumper ends open so the Hi-Lift jack will fit in for jacking up the truck when bogged down in the mud
Nice build, but welding those 1in thick clevis mounts with a 110v welder is pretty sketchy.
I would have at the very least pre-heated the clevis mounts with a torch (even a little $15 propane torch would do) up as hot as I could get it just to help with penetration. The I would have probably done another 2 or 3 passes over that first bead. Those clevis mounts might be the only thing saving your rig or your life. And you definitely don't want to be around when a winch snaps one off your bumper with 9000 pounds of force. It is worth it to overbuild. I would have also put them directly in-line with, and tied to, the frame mounts.
Other than that, it is really not difficult at all to add a 220v outlet to your breaker box, assuming it has room for the breaker. It's what I did. And luckily for me, my breaker box was on the outside of my garage wall so all I had to do was punch a small hole through the back of the breaker box and into the garage. Ran less than a foot of 4 gauge wire to a 220 outlet, then mounted it to the wall right over the hole. You can't even tell it didn't come with the house and only cost like $50 total.
You really don't want your hitch receiver backwards. That little support rim around the front is there for a reason. It prevents the mouth of the receiver from being pried open by heavy lateral and vertical forces on the hitch, or from being crushed closed by hard rock impacts.
Good job, thanks
Thanks Doug I really appreciate it
Great Video. Not sure if it has been asked, but why didn't you recess the hitch in like you did the d ring mounts? It looks like you could have put the pin in from the back of the bumper. I have an FJ, so not much help with me, but the ideas and fab tricks are great. Keep it up.