Chinese Steel Bumpers: Installation

X8GGY Cheers for the offer but next to my mates workshop is a global nuts n bolts supplier who lets us just get stuff once he's told us where they are.

AHTR...
2 holes on the right side dog leg bracket line up with 2 holes on the towing eye bracket.
But
There's only 1 hole on the left side dog leg bracket and it doesn't line up with anything. Did you drill any holes ?

No Worries...

Rabid Rhino wrote: Missing a load of nuts and bolts from a torn open bag as the box was quite badly damaged.
Hopefully that's all I'm missing.
1 Dog leg bracket is on the car

What are the brackets below for & where do they go ?

I had no instructions. Drilled a few holes, just made it up as I went along, few extra bolts on the 'dog leg' brackets. Also where the 'dog leg' brackets bolt to the winch plate I drilled right through the chassis legs and bolted right through with some steel/spacers to strengthen it up.

The parts you've got left I just put in the scrap bin. The 2 bits on the left bolt onto the end of the chassis rails, then the winch plate is supposed to bolt to these using the big washers you have left. But like I said, I binned them and made up something myself as the fit wasn't great.

ahtr, you got any close up pics of the corners, front & side on at the arches ?

I can't get the ends to line up with the arches. I'm out by about 0.5" there and under the lights there's a similar 0.5" gap.
The bumper won"t go any further back because its hitting the front edge of the lower slam panel.
So the only solution I can see is trim 0.5" of the rear top edge of the bumper












Trim the 0.5" here

ahtr wrote:

Rabid Rhino wrote: Missing a load of nuts and bolts from a torn open bag as the box was quite badly damaged.
Hopefully that's all I'm missing.
1 Dog leg bracket is on the car

What are the brackets below for & where do they go ?

I had no instructions. Drilled a few holes, just made it up as I went along, few extra bolts on the 'dog leg' brackets. Also where the 'dog leg' brackets bolt to the winch plate I drilled right through the chassis legs and bolted right through with some steel/spacers to strengthen it up.

The parts you've got left I just put in the scrap bin. The 2 bits on the left bolt onto the end of the chassis rails, then the winch plate is supposed to bolt to these using the big washers you have left. But like I said, I binned them and made up something myself as the fit wasn't great.

No instructions on mine either. Had some bits leftover but still couldn't think of where they could go so they got binned as well.

I will get you some photos today as I need to do one of my essential food shops.

Edit: here you go - let me know if you want pictures of anything else!

R2D 2 bolt holes on the righ side dog leg or just 1. I can't see clearly for all the underseal. Like it !!!! My dog leg has 2 that don't quite line up & are well over 1/2" from the side of the tow bracket.... Guess I'm missing a bunch of washers.
Do you have a pic of the left side dog leg ? Did it mount to anything ?
Yours is nice & tight against the body, which mine isn't but I'm trying to get there.

Are you noticing my Star Wars references with your user name ?

I don't have any pictures but I spent an hour or so moving it around and drilling some new holes, trimming a few bits off, the fit ended up ok.

When I bought mine I accepted they're cheap bumpers knocked out of a factory in China that probably don't have the finest build tolerances.

I'll make a video for you today outlining all the bolts and what I did to make it fit etc.. (easier for me to upload that I think)

Yes haha loving the star wars references with my name :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

What the heck is wrong/different with my 1999 LHD soft top ?
After cutting 1/2" off the back side of the front bumper top the uprights now foul the leading edge of the lower spam panel. So more cutting needed to get it back enough for the corners to fit into the wheel arches.

And then there's the rear bumper.....
The right side bracket lined up OK with the bumper but the left was out. So much so the bolts wouldn't go through.
The holes on the chassis bracket where the bumper holes overlapped were scribed.
There wasn't enough metal on the edge of the chassis bracket to extend the holes so the end plate was cut off and moved over 1/2"





So the left side finally fitted


But the right side was still out...


The reason... The corner strengthening plate for the spare carrier was hitting the corner of the body


Cut out a small piece of bumper and at last it fitted

All in, this took a couple of days rather than a couple of hours on a vehicle with no bumpers on it to remove, so all installation.
Quality Chinese products.