The ongoing story….. the bumper beam!


To give it some more protection I undersealed it, a nice coating inside and out….

IMG_20200408_105350 by jon sutherland, on Flickr


Brackets bolted on, and turned over to do the other side…

IMG_20200408_111904 by jon sutherland, on Flickr


Whilst waiting for it to dry, the redundant brackets were removed from the back panel…..

IMG_20200408_115119 by jon sutherland, on Flickr


The ‘nuts’ are completely round from original, no idea how they tightened them!!!! Once flats cut on the side I could undo them…. Like a nut!

IMG_20200408_115205 by jon sutherland, on Flickr



His left me with 4 studs…

IMG_20200408_115230 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

Which I have had to put nuts on, to stop them rattling!!!! Not completely sure why they didn’t just put conventional nuts on in the first place!!!!


Once dry I could bolt it on!

IMG_20200408_125740 by jon sutherland, on Flickr


Next up was to make some top hat washers to hold the lower bumper mounting horns, some didn’t survive the disassembly from the old rusty bar…. The added bonus is these now have stainless threads!

IMG_20200408_144610 by jon sutherland, on Flickr


Then it was lights out and refit the cover….

IMG_20200408_171638 by jon sutherland, on Flickr