Dave had promised to move my Shrock bumper up a couple of Sundays ago to finally get rid of my "ghetto gap" and maybe gain an inch or two on my approach angle. Dave had the plates cut and ready to go on when I got to his shop on Sunday morning. We got the bumper off easily with his engine hoist. He welded the plates onto the wire brushed frame horns; we positioned the bumper and clamped it in place. He drilled four new holes through the bumper and the plates. Then we pulled it back off, wire brushed and spray painted everything, lined it up again and ran some grade 8 hardware. I drilled one more hole per side through one of the pre existing holes in the bumper into the frame horns and put another bolt per side, rewired the fog lights, CB antenna, PA and gave the whole mess another coat of spray paint on.
Poser shot in the garage of the relocated Shrock bumper;
Changed the CL and IA bushings (
http://bandit4x4.com/) today;
I also remounted my TC skid. I had replaced the cross member that holds the torsion bars because I had bent it at the KiX Run. It is always fun mounting a F?d up skid plate on a brand new OEM part. Things just don?t line up. What a pain?