Go Rhino Front Bumper Guard Installed

[Keydo]

It's been awhile since I've posted, but I finally got around to installing the front bumper guard. I apologize to those people who PM'd me a few months back. Life has been so hectic that I haven't had a chance to cruise through here. It took me this long just to find time to install this simple bumper guard.

This brand is a Go Rhino brand which matches the chrome rear bumper step. It is a chrome bumper guard with brushed steel skid plate. In order to install this, you basically lose the tow hooks. In place of the tow hooks are mounting plates that connect to the bumper guard. For those who have 4x2s, I have no idea how this would install because the bolts thread into a backing plate that is INSIDE the chassis rail. When removing the tow hooks, you have to make sure that at least one bolt is always threated to the backing plate. If not, the backing plate could slide inside the rail and now the hole in the chassis rail won't line up with the backing plate. Then you have to contort a finger through the chassis rail hole to re-align the backing plate so you can get the bolt to thread on.

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[rwinch]

I would think that keeping the tow hooks is important. Is this a matter of having longer bolts, or does this installation make this simply impossible?

 

[Keydo]

You retain the large bolts and backing plate that was attached to the tow hooks. So, instead of the tow hooks mounted to the frame rail, it is the mounting plate. The mounting plate is about as thick as the plate on the tow hooks.

The bumper guard is attached to the mounting plate via a large bolt as well.

You cannot mount the tow hooks and the mounting plate at the same time (I looked into that at the time.) However, now that I'm thinking about it, you might be able to mount the tow hooks backwards in conjunction with the mounting plate. (Tow hooks facing the end of the truck instead of forward). You'd need longer bolts and a deeper reach to hook into the tow hooks. Also, for the longer bolts, I have no idea what the thread pattern is, but it would have to be the same as the backing plate is 'inside' the frame rail.

For the most part, I'm not worried about towing and if it ever came down to it, I'd just connect to the bumper guard, but I could connect as close to the frame rail as possible.

I wonder where the 4x2 folks connect to since they have no tow hooks?