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Posting out of curiosity hoping to hear from someone who's installed an aftermarket front bumper and successfully recovered a vehicle with the tow points.
My buddy with his 2nd gen recently bought a bolt on front bumper replacement, all steel with two front hooks for recovery purposes.
He took it out the other night and one of us got stuck, he had to pull them out. When he did, it looked like he bent the bumper out on the right side. We took it back to our buddies shop and hauled it off to take a closer look and to our surprise it appears he bent the plate on his frame where the bumper attaches, it also looks like those front plates are extremely thin.
His plans are to weld thicker plates, but it has my mind a little boggled as to why those plates would be as thin as they are from factory and if the 4th gen is also stuck in the same faith.
High clearance bumpers is majorly on my radar, overtime pending approval lol, but now I'm really concerned if I'll need to re-enforce my frame mounting points too.
Anyone currently with a non-OEM bumper with built in recovery points that can tune in?
My buddy with his 2nd gen recently bought a bolt on front bumper replacement, all steel with two front hooks for recovery purposes.
He took it out the other night and one of us got stuck, he had to pull them out. When he did, it looked like he bent the bumper out on the right side. We took it back to our buddies shop and hauled it off to take a closer look and to our surprise it appears he bent the plate on his frame where the bumper attaches, it also looks like those front plates are extremely thin.
His plans are to weld thicker plates, but it has my mind a little boggled as to why those plates would be as thin as they are from factory and if the 4th gen is also stuck in the same faith.
High clearance bumpers is majorly on my radar, overtime pending approval lol, but now I'm really concerned if I'll need to re-enforce my frame mounting points too.
Anyone currently with a non-OEM bumper with built in recovery points that can tune in?
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