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Carl_kps
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 08:43 am: | 
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The fog lights and the plastic around it has taken a good deal of damage from offroading. I was wondering if there is a way to take that crap off to impove approach angle at a reasonable cost? |
Rans (Rans)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 09:57 am: |
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Half an hour of labor and you can remove the bumper/airdam. First remove the splash shields underneath in front of the tires to expose the foglites. Disconnect the foglite plug, and the 2 moisture tubes. Looking up inside you can see a rubber grommet at the trailing edge of the bumper on each side that has to be loosened and the bumper can be slid off the mount as the attachment is an open slot rather than a hole. The in the center of the bumper where the 2 frame rails end, the bumper is attached with 2 bolts on each rail. Remove the bumper and replace the bolts. The bumper will be hanging on by the headlight washers. Clamp the hose with some vicegrips as close as possible to the resevoir. Then cut the hose a half inch from the vise-grips and screw a machine bolt/screw into the hose and secure it with a small hose clamp. then remove the vice grips. When the bumper is off it will all look like hell, but you'll have great approach angles. There are other documents around on relocating the resevoir. |
Carl_kps
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 11:07 am: |
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Is there a replacement bumper that I can get that is steel, has winch mount, and headlights guards?
Any suggestions? Looking for something recommended for offroad use. |
Al Oliveira (Offroaddisco)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 11:39 am: |
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http://www.rovertym.com |
OLIVER CLOTHSOFF (Everythingleaks)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 08:03 pm: |
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Can cut the bumper like a kaliharia (can't spell tonight) edition with a saber saw. Have seen this done and helps alot with off-road use. |
Carl_kps
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:24 am: |
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I am eventually going to get a replacement bumper with winch mount. For now do you think I can cut the splash shields off and keep the original bumper until I can get a replacement one? Is this worth the time? Could I even do this? |
Carl_kps
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 10:03 am: |
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Is it hard to put one of those replacement bumpers on? Can I do it myself? |
Darren
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 09:29 am: |
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How does a rovertyme bumper compare to the ARB? Is the rovertyme airbag compatible?
Having removed the fog lights removed, can you still use the same wiring and switch for the one mounted to the new bumper? |
Rans (Rans)
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 10:15 am: |
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Rovertym has better approach angles than ARB. It can be installed by one person alone in an hour, in fact I just installed mine on Monday. The rovertym has no lights in it, the ARB has openings to put lights in. When I was looking for a bumper and asking around amongst my friends with winch bumpers, to a man they all said that they wish they had got a Rovertym instead of ARB, but they were not available then for the D2. One of my friends is in the process of switching over to a Rovertym bumper from an ARB. It has to do with bumper rotation. Apparently the ARB has a bad habit of rotating upwards if it is banged from the bottom by a force as in a climb or an accident. The Rovertym bumper has an extra vertical bolt that helps prevent that from happening. I was told by someone that ARB now has this vertical bolt also, but I cannot say if that is true.
As far as airbag compatible, I have no idea. In removing the bumper I did not remove any electrical stuff that would've been associated with impact measurement so I am assuming those sensors are further inboard from the end of the rails where the bumper attaches.
For the short-term, The airdam can be cut just below the bumper to get fast and easy ground clearance. I think there is an article in the tech section to do so. |
OLIVER CLOTHSOFF (Everythingleaks)
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 12:18 pm: |
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If you don't wreck the car you will not have to worry about the airbags. 
From what I've seen so far the airbags rarly go off in these anyway in a collision |
Darren
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 07:43 pm: |
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I dont know about you guys, but I like the looks on the ARBs, and what you can put on it.
Maybe we dont wreck, but accidents happen. |
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