MOVE DIY Front Winch Bumper

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1/4" is overkill. A good reinforced 3/16" bumper is more than enough for our trucks. The move bumper had no reinforcement. The brackets were 3/16 and welded straight to the flat metal that way. That's where majority of the failure went. The winch bending the bumper i could have dealt with. Bent brackets and bent frame horns with bent or broken/missing grade 8 bolts i couldn't deal with.

Update now. Ignore my last post. I reinstated the fusion bumper. Company is local and they swung by Monday to drop a customer's bumper off, started talking about my bumper and he got me excited about it again.

Did a photo chop and it's pretty ******* looking. So, Fusion it is. Supporting another local based company feels better anyways.

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Looks good. I think the locally made custom bumpers seem to turn out better than those just ordered online. I just got a MIG welder a few weeks ago, still learning how to use it. One of these days I'm hoping to make myself a matching rear bumper. I also wish I had gotten a receiver hitch on the front bumper...
 
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Fusion actually is more than just locally made. They're a nationwide sold bumper built right here in Idaho. Pretty cool considering probably 75% of trucks at SEMA had them on. Currently it's one of the most popular bumpers on trucks.....which is mainly the reason I first cancelled. My truck i want out of the ordinary type deal, but at this point Johnny has gone so far out of his way and the deal is too good to pass up, not to mention it is a sweet looking bumper. On the plus side, Johnny at Fusion (the owner) told me about 90% of the bumpers he builds and sells are non winch bumpers, so even though i won't fully stand out of a crowd, i won't quite fit in either.

Regardless, I'm excited to see this.
 

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You work at bucks? I live in meridian! Sorry to see your bumper troubles.


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You work at bucks? I live in meridian! Sorry to see your bumper troubles.


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Hey hey yeah I work at Bucks, and I also live in Meridian, right off Eagle and Overland by Mountain View High School.....for now. Currently looking to buy a house somewhere along Locust Grove between Victory and Franklin, or head further south out to Kuna.
 

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Do it. Prices are still pretty good. I bought a new to me house last June. Looked at building but found a good deal on an existing home.
 
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So outside the forum i get tons of people asking about the MOVE bumper and with how long of a story it is, I've decided I'll continue to update this particular thread with my Fusion bumper thread.

But first, regarding the MOVE, I'm pretty sure there is an easy solution. Order the bumper without the winch package (or with it if you don't feel comfortable cutting the fairlead hole, but toss the supplied winch plate).

Build the bumper, then buy either a universal winch plate, or make your own, then attach the winch plate itself to the bottom of the bumper brackets. Reinforce the brackets and at that should actually be good.

Now, onto the fusion bumper. At first I was going to do some of my own modifications, basically putting a single row 20" Rigid in the face of the bumper above the fairlead. I wanted to go with the Rigid Radiance with a red back light, ordered it, and found out that the Radiance light bars are not single row dimension wise. They're dual row housings with different internals. So, I'm going to have a prerunner bar on the bumper, and attach the Radiance under the bar. Should look cool.

I've also ordered in some Rigid D2 Hyperspots, then I'll retain the SAE's I already have.

To go with the red backlight on the Radiance, I've ordered in the ledconcepts colormorph kit for the Dually lights, and in the bottom of my black Spyder headlights I'm plastic welding repairing, I'm going to drill and install two 3/4 inch red flush mount led lights. One I'll do below the high beam and hook up to my dome lights so my headlights illuminate red when i hit my unlock on my key fob. The other below the low beam hooked the DRL wiring I've already ran for the current DRL's so the headlights glow red while driving around.

Getting pretty excited here, should look pretty sinister to me.

Here's the 20" Radiance. *******.

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Alright so update. Talked to Johnny last Friday I think to add the prerunner bar, found out that the Fusion prerunner bar is actually 32" wide, meaning the 20" light bar might look funny. So I put the 20" in stock at work and ordered a 30" Radiance Friday night, just showed up this morning. My SLT grille showed up with it as well, however I forgot to order in the Dually D2 Hyperspots, so I'll be doing that here either today or tomorrow for Wednesday delivery. Once those are here, I'll be 100% ready for that bumper to get here.

I've decided to hold off on the colormorph on the Dually lights, reason being because I've already overshot my budget for this bumper as it is. Wife wasn't happy about have to replace the MOVE in the first place. What started off as just the bumper and paint has now turned into bumper, prerunner add on, new lighting, new grille, and the added cost of the little here and there parts like the 3/4" LED's and other stuff that's nickel and diming me to death here.

So, the colormorph kit can be added at anytime, right now just getting everything functional again is my concern as of now.
 

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Alright so update. Talked to Johnny last Friday I think to add the prerunner bar, found out that the Fusion prerunner bar is actually 32" wide, meaning the 20" light bar might look funny. So I put the 20" in stock at work and ordered a 30" Radiance Friday night, just showed up this morning. My SLT grille showed up with it as well, however I forgot to order in the Dually D2 Hyperspots, so I'll be doing that here either today or tomorrow for Wednesday delivery. Once those are here, I'll be 100% ready for that bumper to get here.

I've decided to hold off on the colormorph on the Dually lights, reason being because I've already overshot my budget for this bumper as it is. Wife wasn't happy about have to replace the MOVE in the first place. What started off as just the bumper and paint has now turned into bumper, prerunner add on, new lighting, new grille, and the added cost of the little here and there parts like the 3/4" LED's and other stuff that's nickel and diming me to death here.

So, the colormorph kit can be added at anytime, right now just getting everything functional again is my concern as of now.

She'll get over it :favorites13:
 
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Update for here. Fusion got here a week ago. I've got some more custom fabrication I'm going to do for some accessories, but it sure looks a whole hell of a lot stronger than the MOVE bumper.

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Won't be doing anything until probably next weekend. Got some time to spend with my new sweetheart

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Congrats dude

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Congrats dude

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Thanks man. 3rd daughter haha. I've got a lot of gun cleaning in my future.

Picking up some more primer today for the bumper. Primer I had sitting in my garage froze over the winter time and seperated, assuming the lid didn't seal properly. But 3 holes to drill for the light bar and it's ready for prime and paint.

Here's how the Radiance is getting mounted. After moving it around a few places, I decided this is the best looking spot.

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The only thing I didn't like was how high up it sat. So I started digging through our small (or rather large) box of light bar brackets. Working in an off road shop, majority of the L brackets supplied with with the light bars get tossed into this box at my work, as we usually wind up having to fab or supply aftermarket brackets.

I came across a single pair of these, so it was like it was meant to be.

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On the lowest hole, the light bar sits almost completely flat on the surface of the bumper. Should work perfect. I'm going to install them how they are now, if after install I don't like them I'm going to pull them and spray them red.

Here's a photo that shows what I'm talking about drilling holes. Two for the brackets, and one directly below where the wires feed out of the light, resulting in the wiring going straight down into the bumper. Cleaner appearance IMO. Also, with visualizing this, I won't need to install the bumper to check for clearance of the grille, I'm going to mount it exactly where it is in this photo, as far forward as possible so I don't lose as much light on the prerunner bar.

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Do you have a front facing pic with the new light bar mounts, or is the one above it?

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Man that's looking good.

Thanks man!

Do you have a front facing pic with the new light bar mounts, or is the one above it?

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Not yet, I had already boxed the Radiance back up and put it in the back seat of my truck when I started looking for new brackets. We had a 50" Rigid awaiting install on a Jeep that I measured the brackets against and found where the light bar will sit. I'm going to take a look at it tonight when I drill the holes where I want it to be. Thinking either the bottom holes flush against the bumper, or the center hole so it's centered a little more in the opening between the prerunner bar and the bumper.

Something else showed up today. My Iron Cross shackles, 2 red for the bumper, 1 black for the Prolink.

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Also forgot to update here, but I found a seller on eBay selling LEDConcepts halo's for the 3" pods, got TWO complete sets including remotes for both for $90, so now I can run up to 6 different pairs if I choose to add on later. Unfortunately a few weeks ago when I purchased them he was out of stock, but he just got them in this week and shipped them out. Hoping to have them tomorrow or Saturday, that way I can install before getting the bumper on the truck.
 
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Light bar mounts swapped, tried on the bottom hole and it did the opposite of the original brackets which is what I thought would happen, too much gap at the top. So I threw it on the middle hole and now it sits perfect.

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Holes measured, marked, and drilled. Light bar mounted!

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Getting all the surface rust off was a pain in the ass, had to do the back all by hand because my sanders were all too big to fit in the tight spaces. Front side only took a couple minutes to get it all cleaned up though. But it's IN PRIMER! Tried this new primer from the Wesco that's in an aerosol can. Has a small shaft mounted in the bottom, all you do is pull the shaft and it breaks the seal inside the can and mixes the primer and activator, shoot and spray. Shelf life of only 12 hours once it's activated, wound up about 15 minutes late to work this morning because I had to start a 4th can to finish the third coat of primer, wound up doing a light spray all over to use the rest of the can up so it wasn't a waste of 25 bucks. I absolutely love this stuff, super easy to spray and comes out fairly thick. Probably could have gotten away with only 2 coats, but I don't want to do remove this bumper again unless it's for a full color change on the truck. First coat had flashed within 15 minutes, second coat flashed in about 20, so quick and easy to work with. Wound up a little more expensive than a gallon of Upol 2k and activator, but for thirty bucks more to skip the mixing, gun hook up, gun cleaning and container clean up, blah blah blah, it worked out awesome!

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And my surprise at work. HALOS!

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Doing our first set of family pictures today immediately once I'm off work, so I won't be able to get back to the bumper until possibly Monday or something. But tonight I can get started disassembling the Rigid Dually lights and installing the halo's in them.

I'm in the final stretch!
 

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looks pretty slick, noway could I afford the fusion, way too expensive, looks cool though, I'm gonna go with DIY kit and my brother in law is a 25 years welder, so he can show me how to assemble and weld then paint, maybe even fab it himself, if I get the material, but the kits are all parts included, just tack and weld.
 
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Oh I know all about the kit, this post started off with the MOVE diy kit.

I said it earlier, it's a great bumper.....for those who don't plan on using a winch. I honestly wouldn't pull on it either with the shackle mounts. But for those looking for the look, and wanting to have something that offers slightly more protection than a stock bumper, it's great.

I guess I never updated this thread with the final outcome. The Fusion is installed, the only downside is it doesn't have the winch in yet. Hopefully I'll knock that out Saturday morning. My 12k is slightly too big to fit with the predrilled holes that came on the winch plate. So I'll need to remove the bumper and enlarge the holes, then build a bracket for the winch control box relocation. Short of that, all lights are installed, the Dually's are functional and running the LEDConcepts, the Radiance is not wired in for the backlight but the white section is hooked up.

There's some gaps and needed adjustment, but seeing as I have to pull it back off to install the winch I just got it "close" to fitment. Only reason bumper went on as I first thing pulled the sport bumper off when I got to the shop, went to install the winch and found I couldn't get it to fit. I had less than an hour to get to work, and I knew I wouldn't get the time to do it again for a bit so installed the Fusion rather than the Sport.

I just copied these pictures from my build thread, so ignore (or appreciate ha) the TireGate.

But the Fusion looks pretty damn good if you ask me.

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What are your plans for the rear bumper ? Leaving it stock or are you going to look for something to match the front.
 
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