Bumper Tucking
So I had a bit of free time today and decided to pull the front bumper and get it over with. I want to tuck my bumpers because they stick out comically far and I don't have bumper fillers that are in good condition.
Took some measurements and it looked to be about 1 7/8" on one side and 2 1/4"T on the other that I could tuck the bumper in. I decided to just go with 2" since the bumper wasn't completely centered anyway. Taking the front bumper off was a breeze since I had soaked the bolts down with penetrant 2 or 3 times in the past couple months. Got some 2 inch masking tape and ran a piece down each side at a slight angle to prevent having to cut and reweld the bumper mounting plates. Cut the bumpers with an angle grinder and then also smoothed the edges off and removed the chrome in order to weld.
Put the pieces together and put some tacs on the bumper and went to do a test fit. The driver side was perfect and the passenger side needed to be rotated 3 degrees or so pulled it off and re did the tacs on the passenger side and then got to work welding the bumper up. Ran a bead down the front and then down the backside. Got out the grinder again and grinded the welds smooth on the front side. Then threw some silver paint over the welds for now since Ill be making a custom air dam and radiator intake vent soon.
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Mounted the bumper up onto the car and got it centered with the help of my
father. The fitment was exactly what I had in mind. In order to fill in the left over gap I decided to trim the bumper fillers that I have and then threw a quick coat of spray paint over them. When the car gets painted ill properly fix this since those pumper fillers are so sun faded, flake like chalk and have holes burned through them. For now it works great. As you can see in the final pictures the bumper edges go just past the sides of the headlight trim.
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