TJM Bumper Install

spencevans · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2007 12:54 am

I got a call from Old Dominion Freight today. They are delivering my TJM front bumper this Thursday. All I have to do is paint it and install it. I'll try to take lots of pictures.

OzLtd · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2007 2:02 am

Good luck mate. Cant wait to see Dark Khaki - that is my favourite colour but they didnt have it when I got mine

Your bar should look saaweet.

Fouros · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2007 9:28 am

good luck mate

cant wait to see the picks

chrismc · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2007 9:40 am

Where did you buy it from, and how much did it cost (if you don't mind me asking)?

Maximum Carnage · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2007 10:54 am

Best of luck mate, one thing is install it first to make sure you have a good fit then remove it and paint it and then reinstall it. If you decide to paint it first then install you are going to have to be very carful with not scratching it.

spencevans · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2007 12:00 am

chrismc wrote:

Where did you buy it from, and how much did it cost (if you don't mind me asking)?

I bought the bumper from Jackit out of Salt Lake City. http://www.jackit.com/ they are having the bumper shipped to my front door.

If you goto http://www.tjmbullbars.com/distributors.htm you could find a local distributor or any distibutor I guess. You have them call TJM Bullbars and order you a T17 bumper. I did all my ordering over the phone. I know TJM Bullbars does not have the bumper listed but they just recieved them last week.

I believe I paid about $800 for the bumper, $175 shipping to my front door, and $65 to uncle sam for a grand total of $1040. I am sure you could find a better deal if you called a few distributors and asked them how much they would mark up bumper. I also paid extra to have it shipped to my front door.

spencevans · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2007 12:05 am

Maximum Carnage wrote:

Best of luck mate, one thing is install it first to make sure you have a good fit then remove it and paint it and then reinstall it. If you decide to paint it first then install you are going to have to be very carful with not scratching it.

Yeah good idea. I plan on painting the bumper Dandilion Yellow. I also plan on painting my fenders, skid plates, RL super sliders, roof rack and RL rear bumper the same color. If it does look good then I paint it all black.

Milner · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2007 10:39 am

spencevans wrote:

chrismc wrote:

and $65 to uncle sam

No that would be Uncle Huntsman :lol:

meh_kick · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2007 11:28 am

I visited TJM site linked above, but only saw the aluminum bull bar.

Does anyone have a picture of the full bumper they make?

dgeist · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2007 2:45 pm

meh_kick wrote:

I visited TJM site linked above, but only saw the aluminum bull bar.

Does anyone have a picture of the full bumper they make?

PDF for TYPE 17 STEEL & ALLOY - KJ JEEP CHEROKEE 11/04+:
http://www.tjm.com.au/Portals/0/xmod/packages/webedit/attachments/06_77_kjcheroT17%20R.pdf

meh_kick · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2007 9:43 am

Thanks.

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but I assume that there is room to fit a winch inside the TJM, similar to the ARB?

Fouros · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2007 10:24 am

yes there is a cradle inside the bar

spencevans · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2007 12:06 am

meh_kick wrote:

Thanks.

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but I assume that there is room to fit a winch inside the TJM, similar to the ARB?

They are very similar but the TJM does not cover the stock fog lights which always bothered me about the ARB. I love the first generation ARB bullbars but I was never down with the second generation. So I went with the TJM.

meh_kick · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2007 11:50 am

I'm assuming they haven't made one for the '04 and previous?

Fouros · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2007 7:04 pm

no not yet but we are pushing for it

send emails to

info@tjm.com.au

atten

national Sales Manager

re availablity of tjm bar for 02-04 KJ's

spencevans · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2007 10:31 pm

Well sorry I haven't posted on this install for awhile. I spent the better part of yesterday painting and trying to install this bumper. The bumper comes in two pieces, a sub assembly and a bumper cover. It's not terribly difficult install but it is extremely time consuming. Yesterday I applied 6 coats of Caterpillar yellow base coat and then 4 coats of clear to the bumper. Then I attatched the sub assembly to the frame. The sub assembly is atatched using 12 half inch bolts. It is definately not comming off. I also trimmed the front fenders. Tommorrow I will be wiring the lights and doing the finishing touches. All in all this install will take me about 20 hours, but more than half of that is painting. I'll post some pics when I am done.

Rock Lizard · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2007 11:11 pm

Sweet. Did you get the rear painted too? I'm looking forward to seeing this yellow paint.

CRDburnouts · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2007 11:53 pm

spencevans wrote:

Well sorry I haven't posted on this install for awhile. I spent the better part of yesterday painting and trying to install this bumper. The bumper comes in two pieces, a sub assembly and a bumper cover. It's not terribly difficult install but it is extremely time consuming. Yesterday I applied 6 coats of Caterpillar yellow base coat and then 4 coats of clear to the bumper. Then I attatched the sub assembly to the frame. The sub assembly is atatched using 12 half inch bolts. It is definately not comming off. I also trimmed the front fenders. Tommorrow I will be wiring the lights and doing the finishing touches. All in all this install will take me about 20 hours, but more than half of that is painting. I'll post some pics when I am done.

20 hours! holy crap! I need to see some pics, it sounds pretty crazy. How does TJM cover the gap between the bumper and the fender?

spencevans · **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2007 12:43 am

CRDburnouts wrote:

spencevans wrote:

Well sorry I haven't posted on this install for awhile. I spent the better part of yesterday painting and trying to install this bumper. The bumper comes in two pieces, a sub assembly and a bumper cover. It's not terribly difficult install but it is extremely time consuming. Yesterday I applied 6 coats of Caterpillar yellow base coat and then 4 coats of clear to the bumper. Then I attatched the sub assembly to the frame. The sub assembly is atatched using 12 half inch bolts. It is definately not comming off. I also trimmed the front fenders. Tommorrow I will be wiring the lights and doing the finishing touches. All in all this install will take me about 20 hours, but more than half of that is painting. I'll post some pics when I am done.

20 hours! holy crap! I need to see some pics, it sounds pretty crazy. How does TJM cover the gap between the bumper and the fender?

About 10 of those were painting. As far as the bumper fender gap, it depends on wether you have the sport or the limited. The limited bumper comes down about an inch farther than the sport. I have the sport but it still looks great. It will even look better after I paint the fenders yellow. The fenders are not supposed to touch the bumper because that would scratch the paint on the bumper.

spencevans · **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2007 12:49 am

Rock Lizard wrote:

Sweet. Did you get the rear painted too? I'm looking forward to seeing this yellow paint.

Of course I painted it Yellow. I did 6 base coats and then 4 clear coats. I hope doing the base clear combination won't come back to haunt me but it looks awsome right now. I'll post some pics after I put it on tomorrow.

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