Suzuki Club UK

If anyones interested someone on facebook is advertising these bumpers, £180 inc powder coating

£10 more than I paid for mine but they look alright to me!

His name is Tim Chappell in the group "suzuki sj 4x4 parts pics vids"

Ordered mine last week and should arrive Wednesday, il post up some pics when I get it

Looks alright. I have a Ramsey 9000lb winch, but no winch bumper - I'm thinking of centre mounting the winch anyway and running the "rear snatch block back to the front" arrangement. So I'd probably make my current one into a fairlead block thingy. Or just make a whole new bumper (my current one isn't totally straight anyway).

That's at the bottom of a very long list of things I need to do, though.

I hope they mount to more than just the 4 bolt holes in the chassis? That is not strong enough for winching if so.

ScottieJ wrote:I hope they mount to more than just the 4 bolt holes in the chassis? That is not strong enough for winching if so.

That's how mine currently mounts, but at the moment it's just a bumper. The hollow tube behind that runs through the chassis has steel pipe hammered into it, then steel pipe hammered into that, then studding bolted through that.

I'd rip the end of the chassis out before I bent it, so the plan is that if I *do* make any kind of winch bumper, to use that as my anchoring point for the bumper.

ScottieJ wrote:I hope they mount to more than just the 4 bolt holes in the chassis? That is not strong enough for winching if so.

Look scottie just ask Rhino ray how its definitely OK to winch off those 4 holes

Just to confirm, they do mint to the 4 bolt holes, but I'm planning to reinforce this soon

twiss wrote:

ScottieJ wrote:I hope they mount to more than just the 4 bolt holes in the chassis? That is not strong enough for winching if so.

Look scottie just ask Rhino ray how its definitely OK to winch off those 4 holes

After they have been drilled out to 12mm and sleeves welded in it's ok, that's what he usually does I thought.

The mounts that he put on my Vit are very solid, I can't say that I've heard of an RR bumper failing and he has been selling them since the dawn of time.

Yeah they are sturdy as hell there's no arguing that... but the weight is almost enough to rip the bolts out

My mate bought a camo painted zook off Ray years ago and that wasn't sleeved!
But he didn't have a winch, repeated snatch recoveries were the cause we think, ripped the bolts out the end of the chassis leg

I was well impressed with mine... has the 4 bolts, sleeves, reinforcing brackets that clamp round the chassis leg, u-bolts clamping the back of the winch tray to the chassis crossmember, and extended legs going into the chassis

Would take it all off and get pics but I had to sledgehammer it on in the first place lol

The extended chassis legs would be hard to retrofit to another bumper, but the u-bolts holding the winch tray to the crossmember should be quite easy