Rear Bumper Suggestions
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And they won't peel as easily if you drag the bumper a lot.
Barnes Tail Plate bumper. $129 + shipping. 3/16th off the rear crossmember and a little more where the tow attachment points are.
The Barnes bumper doesn't extend the full width of the tub. Have an LJ and WILL be dragging the rear because of the lower departure angle. Want a bumper that will protect the tub all the way out to the edges. It is definitely tucked in and won't increase the departure angle.
I’m aware. Wasn’t really trying to drop a tank full of gas over the weekend. The underneath bolts are sitting on my dining room table, but I want to get grade 8s so they all match.
Correct. That's why it's such a good example. And you can also see where mine might peel if the bumper didn't fully wrap the crossmember. Understand that my rear crossmember is also over an inch higher up than normal and I still catch it.
I took a guy wheeling with the Barnes/genright style. Came down on a rock and peeled the rear bumper plate right up. His was genright.
Yeah I see what you’re talking about. Dunno if that’s a 3x the cost solution to a problem I haven’t really had, but I suppose time will tell. Usually I’m catching my gas tank long before my bumper.
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I used to have a fat wide beam bumper like Dirtworx. Eventually I found it was getting more and more in the way of forward progress. But it did a lot to protect the corners and minimized reliance on the gas tank skid. You choose what you want to use and abuse. For what I want do, I need corners to go along with my little bumper.
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This is what mine was replacing. I would hit the hitch on a lot of things and given that I think I put my bike rack on my Jeep once, I decided the hitch wasn’t really a priority for me. It stuck out a little more than the Barnes but not to the end of the tub.
I know smittybilt isn’t top of anyones list but in retrospect I am glad my Jeep was fully armored when I bought it because I know that wouldn’t have been as high of a priority for me as it should have and I’d probably be sitting here with a mangled up tub in worse shape than your back corner.
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This is my thought process. I'm really just trying to protect the back with something more useful than the stock bumper and without spending a ton on it.
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