Due to the fact that I hacked the heck out of my old crossmember for the last bumper that I made, this job was a lot harder than it had to be.

Here's the old bumer, will probably just be used for scrap.

I was pretty nervous about welding and cutting around my gas tank, so we pulled it out and moved it to the front of the Jeep.

I found that cutting the crossmember close to the frame, then cutting a little with the sawzall and grinding the rest worked pretty well. The crossmember's are welded on each side of the frame.

Here's the new Garvin-Industries rear bumper and factory crossmember ready to go.

I'm glad I took that welding class! Makes you feel like a manly man to cut and weld stuff on your Jeep :-)

Bolting it up with Grade 8 hardware.

Getting ready to let the body back down onto the mounts and cheapy 1" hockey puck body lift.

Done... at least until I start building the tire-carrier portion.

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