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Alright guys, for those of you who have built your own brush/bull/ or 'roo' guards, I would like to dig into your minds a little and find out how you built yours, how you attached them, measurements, required materials and tools, ect. (pics would be helpful!) Finding them has been incredibly hard for me personally. But I really want one and I have a friend with lots of skill in steel working who would build one for me if he had the measurements, etc. 

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Found this leg curler from a weight bench at the dump and converted it to a brush guard.

That looks like a really cost effective brush guard, Rust! Did you mount it with just bolts? Or did you weld it? Edited by Sapper 157
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The Aussie ones with the vertical supports, That part is easy to make as the vertical part is just a cut profile with thin strap about 1/8" thick and generally 1.5" wide wrapped around the profile and stitch welded as you go pretty easy to do with no real tools other than a welder.

It could even be made to sit onto the original Subaru Bar on top and then make up a sump guard that extends further forward and up to the bottom of the original bar which could be reinforced internally therefore making use of the original bar and requiring no mounts other than for the sump guard slide plate which is what it would end up acting as also being reinforcing for the stock bar.

 

Some of our Bars also have a side runner that follows the Guard profile and drops down to the Side Steps as well though with a Subaru Wagon the best way to reinforce the sill area is not side steps but a Stainless steel screw on Sill protector that follows the shape of the Sill Panel, Very hard to dent those suckers are.

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What about adapting existing guards from other trucks? Anyone have input on which ones are good to work with and customize? 

 

I was thinking of doing a very simple black bar that would only wrap around the front of the bumper and nothing else to it. Add a few lights in the center.

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I used a couple pieces of heavy box tubing drilled so that longer bolts could go in the stock bumper mounting holes. I put them on first, squared them up, and welded the middle tube of the bumper on. Then i ran thinner box tubing down to a piece of angle iron that I saddled on the front of the lower radiator support. That way the bumper couldn't rotate down while the winch was pulling. The skid plate frame (shown without the 1/8" steel skidplate in this pic) bolted to the bottom of the angle iron on the radiator support.

 

It wasn't pretty, but it took a heck of a beating. I winched out much heavier trucks more often than I pulled the wagon, so it got stretch tested too.

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