For the last few weeks I've probably pestered every Truck shop in town 3 times and surfed a good portion of the web in search of a decent Bush Guard for my 93 Dakota. So far I'm under the impression I'm gonna have to modify or make my own. But I did just find one made by a company called Grizzly, but they say it only fits 87-90. I know theres a slight body difference but is it really a big enough difference to make something like that not work? Bumper placement seems pretty darn close to me.

If anyone knows what the issue there could be or if they know of somewhere where I could find a Bush guard for my truck it would be greatly appreciated!

btw I do plan on hitting the local yards tomorrow to see if I can find anything decent.

 

The only difference is the grill, maybe the grill guard went inward towards the grill, to much for the 91-up. I say if the price is right try it. Call them first and ask.

Nothing is really available. Your best option is buy one for a 97-04 Dakota and custom make it fit.

 

Sadly $300 is way to much for giving it a shot in my opinion. But if 97-04 is the best bet then I've already got plenty of ideas on where to go for that lol. Thanks Crazy4x4RT


Btw if theres anyone out here that has an 87-90 Kota thats looking for a Bush guard heres the link to the one I was looking at.
http://www.stmparts.com/product/GBGR...87---1990.html

 

what required to get the 97-04 gen 2 gaurds to fit. i've thought about this myself.

 

Haha! so I had success at the yards today!
No fricking clue what truck this guard came off of originally but I have two ways I know I can make it work and for 75$ you can't go wrong!

Plan on having it mounted within the next few hours. I'll post pics when I'm done!

 

Haha! So I got the Bush bar installed! Its a true Mcguiver but it'll work until I have time to get a proper bracket system made up for propere mounting. I just wanted the damn thing on my truck lol!

This is the bar I picked up


This is the metal plate system I used for the glorious mounting system.


I'm not sure you want to know what was going on here...


And here it is 10 hours later installed. Fyi I ran into snag after snag involving cruddy bolts, poor drilling, redrilling, kicking, nagging, and some burgers.



It sits a little crooked its barely noticeable but it will do until I can get it on there proper. I plan on grinding down that metal plate to so it matches the bar itself.

 

Cool. Lets see some day time pics!!

 

Day time pics coming right up!

I also need to rebuild the drivers side bracket :/ Sloping more then I thought. Oh well! still looks awesome lol

 

 

I plan on doing something similar...Im making my own that will use the bolts right on the front of the bumper. There will also be 4, 7 inch headlights to go in there somewhere, im sure ill have to take before and after pics for you guys on here.

The lights are guaranteed to be bright and the guard is guaranteed to be big and mean looking. lol