Here are a few pictures I took while installing a front bumper on my TJ. The bumper is from trail-gear. It retails at 159 bucks. Are great deal if you ask me.
first take off stock bumper. There will be bolts on both the top and bottom of your frame rails. Get those out of the way. I think they usually take torx bits, but mine just had regular old bolt.
Then put the Trail-Gear bumper together. There are 4 tabs on the TG bumper. You take the piece that is not already attached to the bumper tubes and put screws in the tabs. These do have torx heads so you will need some bits. The nuts are welded to the tabs which is really nice and makes install a breeze.
next slide the bumper on the jeep and reinstall the bolts you took out of the original bumper.
It took me about 1/2 an hour including unpacking the bumper from the box. It was well packaged and had approximately 12034 yards of bubble wrap to keep it safe.
There are 2 light tabs on top of the hoop that I will be making use of as soon as I find some lights I like. The construction was good and all the welds seemed to be quality. The screw holes all lined up and everything. I also liked the fact that there were beefy mounts to hook some d-rings to. As soon as my D-rings ship I will put them on.
A few things I wasn't as impressed with.
There were zero instructions. It didn't take me long to figure it out, but would be nice for someone that has never taken off or installed a bumper before.
I don't see how a winch plate is going to work with the bumper very easily. It can be done, but will have to be siting on top of the tabs that attach the bumper to the frame rails. I don't think there is a good way for TG to build the bumper to avoid this, but just thought I would make a note. I am currently working on a plate to work specifically with this bumper.
One of the caps on the end of the bumper was welded on a litle crooked. It isn't bad at all and you can only see it when looking straight down from the top of the bumper it is there never the less.
Let me know if you have any questions.
first take off stock bumper. There will be bolts on both the top and bottom of your frame rails. Get those out of the way. I think they usually take torx bits, but mine just had regular old bolt.
Then put the Trail-Gear bumper together. There are 4 tabs on the TG bumper. You take the piece that is not already attached to the bumper tubes and put screws in the tabs. These do have torx heads so you will need some bits. The nuts are welded to the tabs which is really nice and makes install a breeze.
next slide the bumper on the jeep and reinstall the bolts you took out of the original bumper.
It took me about 1/2 an hour including unpacking the bumper from the box. It was well packaged and had approximately 12034 yards of bubble wrap to keep it safe.
There are 2 light tabs on top of the hoop that I will be making use of as soon as I find some lights I like. The construction was good and all the welds seemed to be quality. The screw holes all lined up and everything. I also liked the fact that there were beefy mounts to hook some d-rings to. As soon as my D-rings ship I will put them on.
A few things I wasn't as impressed with.
There were zero instructions. It didn't take me long to figure it out, but would be nice for someone that has never taken off or installed a bumper before.
I don't see how a winch plate is going to work with the bumper very easily. It can be done, but will have to be siting on top of the tabs that attach the bumper to the frame rails. I don't think there is a good way for TG to build the bumper to avoid this, but just thought I would make a note. I am currently working on a plate to work specifically with this bumper.
One of the caps on the end of the bumper was welded on a litle crooked. It isn't bad at all and you can only see it when looking straight down from the top of the bumper it is there never the less.
Let me know if you have any questions.
