Rear bumper design from Chris Chu

Rear bumper courtesy of Tim Crase

Rear bumper designed by Dave Edwards High Desert OffRoad out of Oregon, my final bumper will have a receiver hitch, two anchor points and an antenna mount. Will be painted hammerite gray.

My new heavy duty rear bumper from Dave Edwards, High Desert Off Road.

The new bumper has a receiver hitch, to d-ring mounts, and and antenna mount.

The old stump anchor removed.

Old bumper removed.

Getting ready to test fit the rear bumper, this is a better shot.

This is the test fitting of the bumper before I made the first cut off the mounts.

The new mounting bolts I'm using are on the left versus the old ones, these are 5/8th inch thick with about a half inch shank, they're not going anywhere.

Here's where I screwed up, I should not have cut these down...

Here it is after I cut the mounts down, looks like it should fit right?? Wrong, it's having clearance issues, I cut too much off the mounts and now I'm going to have to get new ones welded back on.

Here you can see the screw up. I cut too much off.

Here is the bumper after I had the patches welded on, this were necessary to offset the height of the bumper.

Jacking the bumper with the new mounts into place.

Almost there. Getting the holes lined up for the bolts.

These are the grad 8 bolts used to hold it on, I may still drill another hole for a 3rd bolt but this seems good for now.

It's bolted on, even though it was dark, I could not wait to take pics.

Here is another angle.

Clearance from the bumper to the tire carrier now.

The tire carrier shut. The bumper looks great, can't wait to try it out.