2004 F150 2wd Cap-it Prerunner

Part 8 - Addictive Desert Design front and rear bumpers

So a lot has happened on our F150 prerruner, now it's 
time to givethe goods on how it was all done

We ordered up from ADD (Addictive Desert Design) a Stealth front bumper and a Race Series Tire Carrier rear bumper, all in raw steal. You can order them up in a black powder coat, but we're going to have ours painted in red.

Front Stealth Bumper

Race Series TC Rear Bumper 

 

We're opting out on using the bumper valance that goes below the headlights/grille in order to raise the the stealth bumper up to give it a better profile look. So first we have to cut the factory brackets off the frame.

So not having an extra set of hands at the time, 

I put the engine hoist to use to help line it up.

Once i have the profile and height I'm looking for, it's time to fab up a setup brackets off the frame. 1/4" plate should do the trick with gussets on the backside

Now that we have the bumper mounted up, it was time to weld up the tabs for mounting our 2 - 30" Rigid Industries LED light bars. The top 30" light bar is full amber and the bottom is the new E2-Series spector light bar

 

Now we have the look we're after, it's time to cleanup the front frame horns and match them up with the bumper.

 

 OK, now for the rear. This is what's going to finish off our F150 and give it that Trophy Truck look.

This style of rear bumper is only available for the
09+ Ford Raptor SVT trucks.
After some careful measurements and a bit of luck, there wasn't much customizing to make it fit, just rear brackets had to be fabbed up. If you have the know-how and tools, it can easily fit on the older F150 trucks.

Doing a dry fit we noticed that the rear topside bed bolts lined up to the mounting tabs on the bumper and the tailgate support bars lined up perfect to the factory 
tailgate holes as well

There was some minor trimming we had to do as one of the step plates was touching the fiberglass fenders. So a little trimming with the die grinder made short order of that. 

 Rear Bumper Brackets

First we made a template of the mounting flange of the bumper using cardboard and cut out on 1/4" plate.

 

Now adding a rear plate to the truck frame to work off of, time to measure up, cut and weld in support gussets
to strengthen it up.

Time to mount everything up to make sure ti all fits correctly before sending off to get powder coated

Finally, a week later after being at the our local powder coat place we get to mount everything up.

To give the bumpers that ultimate look , we had the guys match up the color red to the Trailready beadlock wheels on the truck. It turned out awesome!!

 

  


Next up we're going to wire up all the 
LED Rigid Industries lighting
Stay Tuned....


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