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Message: [QUOTE="TrickTruck, post: 1237641, member: 6044"] OK folks. Spent a busy week taking a clean sheet of paper and doing the design on the rear bumper to match the front. This should be considered 'ultimate' and will likely be priced accordingly. But there's no way to know until I actually make one. I decided to go ahead and integrate the hitch into the design. The 'fabricated' tubing portion is about the same size as stock, and there's 4x of them, and it's triangulated, and it ties into the upper part of the frame too so about double the bolting capacity as well. I'll be running Finite Element Analysis (FEA, stress analysis) on it but I'm guessing it's 5+ times stronger than stock. It forms the backbone of the rear bumper and weighs in right around 100lbs and the whole thing is around 200 as of this moment. The hitch portion is 1/4" and the rest is 11ga. Where you'd be most likely to take a wack from backing into the tounge of the trailer (and most bumpers are dented) it's 3/8" solid steel. I think we can safely say that you aren't going to dent it easily. [ATTACH=full]153624[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]153625[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]153626[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]153627[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]153628[/ATTACH] I've still got some details to add like a step on the corner/side and a brace from the underside to triangulate the outside wing. But this is pretty close to something we could make. Waiting on some models from VisionX to add the integrated rear lights too. Feedback always welcome. [/QUOTE]

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