anyone bought a rear JK bumper?

[carole]

Just noticed that JK do a rear bumper for a 68-72 bus, yet no-one else seems to sell them :roll:

my og rear bumper has seen better days so don't mind buying a repro one providing of course that it will look right....by the time the og bumper is repaired the labour costs will be more than a JK one at £68 anyways....

anyone bought one, are they any good?

piccies would be great if possible!

Thanks , carole

 

[slammedkustom]

ive got one hanging up in the garage waiting to go on mine, your welcome to pop by and have a look.
the mounts are a little different as they mount to a flat plate rather than the bumper and the ends are slash cut like a split rather than diamond cut like an early bay.

 

[strongy]

mine should be hear tomoro so i hope there ok cant be worse than whats hanging of the back end of mine.il post some pics up when it arives :wink:

 

[carole]

mmmmm.......food for thought there, thanks guys!

be interested to see the piccies when you can post them thanks.

carole

 

[strongy]

should be hear tomoro so il post em up tomoro

 

[baron]

i got one

it's cool, had it 5 years, no probs, though it won't fit directly onto your og bumper mounts, need slight mods, not sure what as I had someone else sort it, but not an expensive/difficult job

the diff from og is that the ends are slash cut, like splits, not diamond cut like bays, but i prefer slash cut as it matches the line of the real wheel wells

 

[carole]

thanks for the info guys, doesn't sound too bad a swap.....piccies anyone?

 

[gninnam]

I know you can get fibreglass ones which look like the originals -any thoughts :?:

 

[Justin & Muttley]

Looked at those - they look good! Mind you, I'd rather have solid metal bumpers incase you get a little knock - I don't think those fibreglass bumbers look very strong!
Given the choice I'd go for NOS or good second hand OG!

 

[gninnam]

Heard the fibreglass ones can take a good shove before they give, but I do
know what you mean.

 

[strongy]

sorry about the delay in posting pics,ive been all exited about geting the engine bay painted and geting the engine in :lol: that i totaly forgot about the pics i promised,here they are if you want anymore let me know i took a few but they take ages to load on to photobucket

this is the reason i forgot ive been waiting 2 years to get this in,hopefully il get the rest of the van painted at the weekend

hope

 

[carole]

thanks for the piccies strongy.... :lol: :lol:

engine looks good, what you got?

carole

 

[strongy]

just a 1641 with 34icts.if only it was that simple tho.that engine stans me at over £1000,origanaly i was just puting a top end rebuilt kit on it then the studs pulled out the case,they were allready taped out to 12mm so i had to get a new case and main bairings,i changed from single port to twin so all the tin was wrong then i found out i needed a difernt cooler :lol: it goes on and on.so literely all thats left from the old engine is the crank and fly wheel :lol: moral of the story buy a new engine

 

[gninnam]

Engine does look sweet - sorry about the cost tho 8) :wink:

 

[strongy]

thanxs bud.sorry to hijack the thread but what you all think to the colour,only the engine bay is painted im sat hear trying to piture it all in that colour with a slightly green white top,but im not sure if to go green up to the gutter or to the waist line

 

[slammedkustom]

thats a real nice colour, me and the missus were just admiring it!
i think go to the gutter and white roof

 

[strongy]

im glad uve said that cos thats what i fanced,but alot of people keep talking me out of it .

 

[carole]

go with slammed on this one, white roof and green everywhere else, great colour!

 

[slammedkustom]

its your bus dude, go for it! :wink: