I am installing a bull bar on my van I am fabricating, but I need to figure out the best way to weld up the brackets and mounts.

I have a picture of exactly what Im making in the album below but is defined basically like:

Two 3x3" square steel stock, 3" deep (approximate) welded to the bumper fo my van over the mount holes for the two rubber bumper guards flanking the license plate.
attached to those, I was going to weld on flat steel "caps" to the end, drill a hole. drop in a carraige bolt threads sticking out and mount the custom tow hooks I got off the end as seen in the picture.

another option I was thinking of was similar to this but having it work like a tow hitch where the steel slides in and out of the outer welded-to-bumper bracket. As in the picture, there is a horizontal bolt through the bracket, and then the one attaching the actual tow hook plate to the front of the bracket.

Maybe im over analyzing, what would you guys do?

Check out the pictures and tell me what you would do?
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.1788786051507.2094148.1595266945&l=e6cc633064

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.1826837842778.2099901.1595266945&l=3f17b0642c


Last edited by 78Vandura; April 28th 2011 2:57 pm.

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