Fixing the wife’s sport trac (hit a deer)

[North Idaho 5.oh]

My wife hit a deer last year and I finally found a color matching fender and swapped it out.
The deer broke the header panel and lights on the passenger side, so I took it all off and spray painted (with tractor enamel) everything that was exposed.
Modified the front bumper plastic and made a grille and now we are patiently waiting for our AOR bumper!
Here are some before and after pics!

 

[bobbywalter]

first thing you do.....



build a deer murdering device. and mount it up and start testing.


once that is tested.....


then install newer nicey nice stuff.

 

[North Idaho 5.oh]

Ha ha well my super duty has a deer strainer already and it has been tried and trued!
Just hoping the wife doesn’t hit another one lol

 

[Dirtman]

Deer are sexuaIIy attracted to dinosaurs.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Kinda looks as though the deer hit your wife...

Did you see the tube wings AOR is offering for their bumper now? They look way more robust then the originals. I know if I ever bend mine up... I'm buying the tube wings.

 

[North Idaho 5.oh]

No I didn’t see that actually... I’ll look into that for sure....
I guess technically the deer did hit her but the damage actually wasn’t as bad as I thought...
All in all I did upper and lower ball joints, fender, head light, corner light, header panel and an alignment. Could have been so much worse.
Now I have to put her Pro comp wheels back on it with her Toyo A/T’s.... gonna be looking sweeeeeeet!

 

[North Idaho 5.oh]

Final product of my wife’s truck... with a little fabrication of course.
Had to weld on tabs to move it up 2 inches to give it that clean look, and we welded a nice piece of angle iron across the frame rails kind of like the rangers in order to pick up the other 2 bolts and add strength.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Yeah... Rangers have that filler below the headlamps. Looks good... you dropped bank on bumpers... I've felt the pain.

The center box on these are a beast... I have no problem recommending them.

I should have the skid plate tomorrow for mine... They ship fast too.