Owl Bull Bar

[LeeroyJ]

yeah everyone thought it made the FJ look angry from front. Long before people started the angry jeep lights craze. LOL This pick was during FJ Summit 15-16+ years ago. LOL

I was at the FJ Summit in Ouray in 2012 in my LC100. Great times! Speaking of which, I had a fully welded front bumper / bullbar on that rig , but can't remember who made it.

 

[Itsdchz]

I was at the FJ Summit in Ouray in 2012 in my LC100. Great times! Speaking of which, I had a fully welded front bumper / bullbar on that rig , but can't remember who made it.

Here is one without my Demello bumper

 

[Roving.Grenadier]

That's a concerning result for a low speed impact.
The Owl bar has a 3mm steel thickness.
ARB are generally 2.6mm.
I presume the steel composition is the same.
I don't know what conclusion to draw, except heavier isn't necessarily better.
IMO humans in heavy cars are a bigger risk to my car's front end than animals, whether they be bulls, kangaroos, deer or sheep.

The difference is ARB is normally welded to the bumper outboard, so flex inward is mitigated. The bull bar add-ons to the OEM bumper don’t have that.

 

[Roving.Grenadier]

This Dissent Offroad bump + bullbar looks the best of them all!

Ineos Grenadier Winch Front Bumper

Dissent Off-Road is set to release a full-featured winch-ready front bumper for the Ineos Grenadier, combining rugged durability with a sleek, functional design

dissentoffroad.com

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Here it is in action on my rig while in Big Sur a couple weeks ago. I love it, and has been great on the trail and in winching operations. It’s does require assembly but the welded structure, plus outboard anchor points for the bull bar, really lend to its ruggedness. Should be available this fall, once Dissent gets caught up on production projects.

 

[Itsdchz]

After removing the entire front bumper for impending install, I can confirm/observe:

Minimal damage to bull bar. The mounting plate of OWL has some degree of angle difference compared to passenger side, that overall will have minimal issue for alignment. Bull bar definitely a crash multiplier.

The end caps have minimal reinforcement from main crash bar. Therefore, any hit to side wings will cause more damage, movement, bending, distortion. Simply too much voided space for IC airflow, and lack of reinforcement, presumably to only satisfy 5mph crash on main mid crashbar.

Main crashbar has no reinforcement on edges, again, leading to immediate ability to produce movement on side wings.

Overall very minimal damage when exoskeleton is removed. Only damage to IC area was the intake shroud, that is plastic. And of course the fender that took the hit from the OWL Bull Bar.

 

[CrazyOldMan]

Tough learning - thanks for the transparency and guidance for the community. We all learn from each other and figure this out as we go.

 

[Brock63]

I was at the FJ Summit in Ouray in 2012 in my LC100. Great times! Speaking of which, I had a fully welded front bumper / bullbar on that rig , but can't remember who made it.

here are a couple of my 100 series.....also had FJ60s, FJC, etc. If remember right was White Knuckle Offroad sliders, Front bumper and Rear bumper both are from Bump It Offroad.

 

[Brock63]

Which FJ Summit? I need to look. I went to a couple, need to look at my shirts, to see which ones.

2008 was only year I went. Me and another fellow had our FJC with vinyl lettering as they were trying to close Tellico Offroad Trails....so we were trying to raise awareness and stuff and had RESCUE TELLICO on sides with a couple sponsors...Sparks Toyota (Myrtle Beach) and such. Everyone thought we were a mountain rescue team. LOL SOrry we sidetracked the bull bar thread...apologies.

 

[CountyV8]

My wife used to run a very large fleet of vans for a tobacco company they all had bull bars .
The bull bars did far more damage to front wings/bonnets than the actual crashed ever did so in the next rotation they were ordered without bars and the costs fell.

 

[LeeroyJ]

After removing the entire front bumper for impending install, I can confirm/observe:

Minimal damage to bull bar. The mounting plate of OWL has some degree of angle difference compared to passenger side, that overall will have minimal issue for alignment. Bull bar definitely a crash multiplier.


The end caps have minimal reinforcement from main crash bar. Therefore, any hit to side wings will cause more damage, movement, bending, distortion. Simply too much voided space for IC airflow, and lack of reinforcement, presumably to only satisfy 5mph crash on main mid crashbar.


Main crashbar has no reinforcement on edges, again, leading to immediate ability to produce movement on side wings.

Overall very minimal damage when exoskeleton is removed. Only damage to IC area was the intake shroud, that is plastic. And of course the fender that took the hit from the OWL Bull Bar.

Highlighted your text just to point out that there is no longer a 5mph bumper requirement in the US. It's 2.5 mph for front and rear barrier and pendulum impacts and 1.5 mph for corner pendulum impacts for model year 1983 and subsequent passenger cars.

 

[LeeroyJ]

here are a couple of my 100 series.....also had FJ60s, FJC, etc. If remember right was White Knuckle Offroad sliders, Front bumper and Rear bumper both are from Bump It Offroad.

Sweet rig!

 

[LeeroyJ]

My wife used to run a very large fleet of vans for a tobacco company they all had bull bars .
The bull bars did far more damage to front wings/bonnets than the actual crashed ever did so in the next rotation they were ordered without bars and the costs fell.

Yeah they have long been known as "damage multipliers" on the forums. That may be true in an accident, but it does still serve a purpose when pushing through brush or moving wooly mammoths out of your way.