At 09:05 PM 12/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Date:    Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:08:05 -0700
>From:    Jeff K <kennedy@THERIVER.COM>
>Subject: Anybody made a bull bar?
>
>I'm getting ready to buy some steel and make a bumper/bull bar for the =
>front of my van...if anyone's does this and has some pics/suggestions =
>I'd appreciate seeing them. Most of the ones I've seen retain the stock =
>bumper, and just add a bull bar. I'd like to add two 1.5" tubes to =
>replace the bumper, and weld the bull bar to that, so it matches the =
>bumper I made for the back.

Jeff,

Have a look at...
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pjlander/Bullbar.htm

You will see not only a pic but some plans & dimensions.
This is the typical Australian bull bar (or 'roo bar as we
sometimes call it)

It's good design and looks nice too.It does replace the stock
bumper but is all the better for it....especially if you have
the fibreglass bumpers often fitted to US spec vans.

I have the same bullbar as the one you will see at the
above site and have always been very pleased with it.
Contact me off-line if you want more pics...It is made of
aluminium which has an obvious weight advantage but there's
no other reason why you couldn't do the same thing in mild steel.

Only have needed it once luckily, but it saved what otherwise
would have been likely damage to the original bumper
had it been in place.Sadly,the poor old wombat wasn't
so lucky...:(

Cheers,
Steve O
NSW Australia
'92 Transporter WBX Kombi
'00 Transporter Double Cab
'03 Transporter Double Cab (work truck)