The bumpers we made for the dakota and mine weight about 135 lbs. With a
winch, you might add 60lbs more.
Hope this helps.
Tom
Rick Barnes wrote:
>Cool Miles! I recently completed most of my garage, its 24' x 36'. It has
>an 8 inch thick pad, and a floor drain, a single large insulated garage door
>with an additional side door that is also insulated. It has 6 double paned
>vinyl windows, Dish Network, DSL internet, a refrigerator, microwave, poker
>table, two reclining couches, XM radio, and all the room I need for all my
>tools. It's truly my dream garage. I hope to take a pic of the Dak in a
>couple of days for the calendar and the garage will be in the background. I
>am so fortunate to live in the USA and to be free to be able to live like I
>do. I still have to insulate the inside of the garage, but that should be
>easy.
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>I will bet your truck handles your bumper without a lot of work, you may
>have to put some air shocks or such on. I have a heavy brushguard with four
>big Hella lights on the front of mine and had no trouble at all.
>
>Rascal
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
>[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Miles D.
>Oliver
>Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 6:49 PM
>To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>Subject: DML: Weight on front end with Winch and bumper - Cranking Torsion
>bars..
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> I'm finally getting the new shop built at my house, Concrete pad pouring
>this week and framing should have me in the shop working by End of March
>at the absolute latest.
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> With the shop built I can finally have my welding area back (promised
>the wife no welding in the attached garage since we moved in last April)
>and am going to build a new winch bumper for my 2002 quad cab. I'm putting
>a new Warn 9500 on my Suzuki and the old Ramsey REP 8000 will go on the
>Dakota. I'll probably only use it to pull downed trees out of the way and
>out of the occasional stuck on my Ohio property but want to build me a
>decent
>winch bumper on the Dakota as I need a good project, The truck is paid for
>so it now becomes fair game.
>
> With the addition of additional weight of the winch and new bumper, how
>much weight can I get away with without it sagging badly in the front?.
>I'll probably have to crank the torsion bars too with the added weight.
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> I plan on at least 3/16 plate for the winch base and attachments and 11ga
>for the rest of the bumper to keep the weight down. I'll not be bashing
>trees with it. I want it to be as light as possible but still have a good
>winch base.
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> I have the skills to fab something similar to the Hanson bumper, without
>all that cost (Its wonderful work, and people should be paid for their
>efforts but my budget can't handle $600 plus for one). I usually mock up
>bumpers out of wood paneling or foamcore to start with for a decent template
>that I can cut steel from. so I can make more than one ;)
>
> Anybody else built a bumper for a Gen III Dakota?
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> --
> Miles D. Oliver
> www.mmoliver.org
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