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Ugh. So this one is a little painful. Embarassing if I'm honest. Outcome good... getting the outcome - not so much. I thought I'd share here what I did to a perfectly good set of ARB skid plates (@Ryan at ARB) fresh out of the crate. This is on a pre-owned '21 Badlands 2-door. Returning...

I disabled it with ForScan. Here's my thinking: Auto Start Stop isn't much of an environmental protection in my understanding. It exists primarily as a check mark in a box at the corporate level. Please remember that every time you start an engine, you use a high power DC motor which draws a...

Interesting replies. I realize this thread has played out over quite some time but I’d like to add some thoughts to the mix. I’ve been through several 4WD vehicles in 25+ years of AZ 4 wheeling and they’ve all had winches and all of those winches have been used. As noted above, usually on...

So ... I'm done. I got home, the spray paint was dry, and so I installed the reinforcements. They fit up perfectly. All the bolt stabs went right in, no abuse required. Bolted up, the bumper sits level to within 1/16" which is as accurate as I can measure. The only part left I wanted to...

Totally pulling this one out through a sphincter, but my *guess* is it wasn't much more than the stock modular it replaced. If the modular is around 75, this was maybe as much as 80? I think I mostly concentrated the metal to the center, going with 3/16" plate for the actual winch platform...

That's done by hand with the die grinder. First I hogged out the crossing material between the drilled holes and then I smoothed the high spots to straight lines to make the slot. Then I did the bevel. That's all with a ball nosed cone bur. I have two die grinders. Mostly I use a Makita...

Epic. Driver's side is done. I scrapped the old parts which had been mirror image copies of the pieces I cut for the passenger's side... without knowing that the frame holes are in a different position. I modified my template, tracing the new hole position. Here's the template. The old...

So.... Good news and bad news. Scratch that. Bad attitude. News is just news. We can choose to like it or not, or just forego any opinion entirely and I choose the latter. Because otherwise I'm going to have to kick something. The news that would be good... if I were an opinion-having...

So I've had some time to tinker with this frame horn reinforcement issue over the weekend, and I should have it all sewn up again by mid week. I really appreciate the suggestion! *NOW* I see all the references to the reinforcement options. I'm still curious to see any pics of damage, but I...

That's an eerie similarity. I'm guessing multiple home fabbers have gravitated toward a similar design. So you used the open end of the frame rail to access inside with nuts, and your brackets replaced the backing nut plate. I checked the hole size against a 12mm bolt I have left over from...

Done. I'm doing this. I owe you a beer. I've got a new project!

So you picked up this hole on the rail and you windowed your bracket to go over that hump. I feel it on the inside too. It looks like you made inners and outers for both sides. I really like this approach because it does ZERO heat to the frame rail.

That looks like a great move. I'm going to find that hole you used on the frame rail right now.

BEST ever metaphor mashup!!! ^^^ Now swimming with bull. That absolutely tracks. :cool:

That's an interesting thought, although I don't agree. I did stare at those bolting flanges for quite some time. I'm not dismissing what you're saying entirely. These were designed by engineers, not garage shop fabricators. That means they're mathematically proven to be the cheapest...

And some more pics... I forgot about these. I was super curious about how my camera and sensor relocations would work out, so that was one of the first things I tested once I started fitting things together. Here's the 360 view: This is actually a WAY better outcome than I had hoped for...

It may sound dismissive but, in many ways, welding is the easy part. Some of my welds look great, and others not so much, but in my opinion, the secret sauce isn't in the welding, it's cutting and grinding. If you want to build stuff out of metal, you need to make this part your friend...

Fixed. ... I think? I haven't posted images on a forum since Photobucket was free. Apologies about troglodyte status.

Shazbat... troubleshooting. They're on google drive and I made them public.