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Gladiator Rear Bumper on a Comanche


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14 hours ago, Salvagedcircuit said:

Definitely get the pins @EdJarHead mentioned. For some reason, molex did not include the mating part numbers for the connector pins :confused:

I've on order! I found someone saying some other pins that I ordered before that didn't fit. Appreciate yalls help! i've learned a little bit about this stuff on the path.

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  • 6 months later...

Really good looking job. And kewl to keep it Jeep. Maybe that's a now line: Keep it Jeep. I've got an 86 with the one year bumper and mounts. Got rear ended. I think the delux chrome bumper is restorable yet the mounts were too bent. Am running it all bent down as my police state is full of cameras and they don't seem to get a good pic of my bumper. Still, when I leave the cameras I'll go to your conversion. Well done!!!

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1 hour ago, jeff351 said:

I'm about to find out! Will post an update

Please do! Since JCR discontinued their rear bumper (even the DIY one), there aren’t any other good alternatives. Dirtbound doesn’t use all the frame bolt holes, then they decide to mount their hitch to the brackets themselves and not to the frame. All the other options look like 2x4 bumpers that someone wants several hundred for. 

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  • 5 weeks later...

Ok...yes, the Krustyballer hitch will work with a Gladiator rear bumper. However, since no two Gladiator bumper mods are installed exactly the same, expect some sort of fab work to make it fit.

1) The Krustyballer hitch fits perfect as-is, no problem there.

2) The issue is how you attached the Gladiator bumper. In my case, I originally fabbed it up to fit as close as possible to the rear of my MJ. I had two options to make it work with the hitch; either modify the bumper to move it further back, or modify the hitch to drop and move forward. In my case, it was easier to just cut the hitch since I really liked how my Gladiator bumper fit the MJ.

 

 

 

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