brush guard

[bc4850]

I have a quick question about a brush guard. A friend of mine has a Westin brush guard that he had on his 05 tahoe and he is selling it. I have a 99 tahoe and want a brush guard. Will it fit? Would it look bad? Anyone have any pics of one by any chance?

 

[xX Mavr1ck Xx]

I'm pretty sure that it won't fit.

Welcome to the forum btw!

 

[bc4850]

Thanks. I should have mentioned that I was new to the forum but I was doing it from my cell phone earlier.

 

[96ProCompTahoe]

you might hold it up to the front of the truck and see if it lines up with the frame rails. may be easy to get it to fit. but mavr1ck is right, it won't just bolt up.

 

[bc4850]

I have no problem making some new brackets for it, Im just wondering how it would look. It's a pretty good drive to meet him to look at it so I was just going to check on here to see if it has been done before.

 

[96ProCompTahoe]

have him give you the mount width, inside measurement between the the ears (don't know what else to call them) that curve around the corner marker lights, and height from the top of the frame mounts to the top of the brush guard.

should be able to tell real easy if its something that will fit. i highly doubt there is much of a difference between the two other than the mounts, but i don't have a NBS to look at off hand to say 100%

 

[99denali]

A WARN brushguard of an 03 truck fit my denali, so who knows it might.

 

[bc4850]

do you have any pics of it? How did it look?

 

[bc4850]

Well I got it today and the brackets don't fit but the brush guard does fit the front of the tahoe pretty good. I just have to make new brackets, Shouldn't be too bad tho.

 

[99denali]

I made new brackets out of some 2 1/2 inch angle iron, strong enought to hold up to me using my 10k winch so they should be over kill for just holding it on there.

 

[bc4850]

can you send me some pics of the brackets? I have started making some but I haven't tried them yet. still have to weld them together.

 

[99denali]

Yeah ill try to get some, i cut them with my plasma so there hard to see where they are but ill see what i can do.

---------- Post added at 06:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------

Sorry for the cell pics, i just took them in a hurry, hope they help.

Pic 1 brushguard: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&...isp=inline&realattid=1360221814063628288-1&zw
Pic 2 bracket: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&...isp=inline&realattid=1360221814063628288-2&zw
Pic 3 bracket:https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&...isp=inline&realattid=1360221814063628288-3&zw
Pic 4 bracket: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&...isp=inline&realattid=1360221814063628288-4&zw

 

[bc4850]

The link doesn't work it just takes me to gmail.

 

[99denali]

Damn it, it worked yesterday on a separate computer. Ill try to get some up in a sec

 

[99denali]

Here ya go






Hope they help

 

[quietfly]

looks sexy.

 

[99denali]

Wouldnt get carried away buy it works, i just wish i had a few more tie ins to the frame.

 

[bc4850]

Thanks guys I got it mounted up today. looks good to me. let me know what you think. http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac126/bc4850/Tahoe/2011-02-09_17-17-56_948.jpg

---------- Post added at 08:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:14 PM ----------

I actually have it mounted a little higher than in the pics. That was the first brackets that I made.

 

[quietfly]

that looks really sweet

 

[99denali]

That looks real good man, just needa ditch those running boards

---------- Post added at 04:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:31 PM ----------

What did you end up using for brackets?