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So... we all seem to know that the aftermarket bumpers for Rebels are limited - even though it's a matter of providing enough play in the brackets to shift them up ~1.5" or so.
Took a chance, and bought this one from Amazon after a lot oof shopping. I've seen a bunch with the light bars on them, I just liked the round lights better.
still waiting on the lights to show. but it fits quite well.
The trick was, once it was secured bye the bolts, get a. jack under the bumper and push up until the truck starts lifting off the suspension a little. cleaned the "body gap" on the edges quite well. it MIGHT be ~1/8" of skew from side to side, but after putting the whole thing on, and mounting the winch, by myself... I'm a bit sore and tired.
Put a HF Apex 12k winch in it. 15% off, missed the pre-christmas sale. it won't quite fit with the control box on the winch. I need to get a set of winch separation wires, and a decent piece of metal as a brace, as I know where the control box is going, just need to fab a bracket.
Only thing that would be nice would be some fender well liners that fit - can't get the OEM ones trimmed to fit - they just don't marry up enough to even trim and tuck.
(Note: I know there's a lot of options out there like Vice and others - I actually wanted something like the Vice, but... budgets. Honestly, I like the looks on this.
I do have a pair of H11 male connectors on order, so that I can wire the LED fogs into the factory harness, and I'll be putting the sensors in, as well. I may need to punch a couple more holes to allow the sensors to all fit, since there's only 4 holes, and 6 sensors on the front. Problem is that they'd need to be on either side of the winch. Anyone have ideas on that?
I MIGHT need to find a license plate relocation bracket. for now, it's on the floorboard on the passenger side.... ordered a D-ring license plate mount. see if I like that. It'll keep me legal, at a minimum.
Took a chance, and bought this one from Amazon after a lot oof shopping. I've seen a bunch with the light bars on them, I just liked the round lights better.
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still waiting on the lights to show. but it fits quite well.
The trick was, once it was secured bye the bolts, get a. jack under the bumper and push up until the truck starts lifting off the suspension a little. cleaned the "body gap" on the edges quite well. it MIGHT be ~1/8" of skew from side to side, but after putting the whole thing on, and mounting the winch, by myself... I'm a bit sore and tired.
Put a HF Apex 12k winch in it. 15% off, missed the pre-christmas sale. it won't quite fit with the control box on the winch. I need to get a set of winch separation wires, and a decent piece of metal as a brace, as I know where the control box is going, just need to fab a bracket.
Only thing that would be nice would be some fender well liners that fit - can't get the OEM ones trimmed to fit - they just don't marry up enough to even trim and tuck.
(Note: I know there's a lot of options out there like Vice and others - I actually wanted something like the Vice, but... budgets. Honestly, I like the looks on this.
I do have a pair of H11 male connectors on order, so that I can wire the LED fogs into the factory harness, and I'll be putting the sensors in, as well. I may need to punch a couple more holes to allow the sensors to all fit, since there's only 4 holes, and 6 sensors on the front. Problem is that they'd need to be on either side of the winch. Anyone have ideas on that?
I MIGHT need to find a license plate relocation bracket. for now, it's on the floorboard on the passenger side.... ordered a D-ring license plate mount. see if I like that. It'll keep me legal, at a minimum.
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