I think it's bs, you spend that much money for a product, it better fit or I would be shoving it up someone's yeah...This makes me not want to purchase TF bumpers.

 

It is BS. And they give you Grade 5 bolts of wrong length and don't fill the bolt hole.

The actual bumper is very well made though. It's the only low profile one out there that accommodates a winch. The washer bottle guard is a nice bonus as well.

 

A friend of mine has the low profile one on the front of his rig, he did the install about 4 years ago, back when you could get one for like 499.00 or something...his install went well from what I remember. He was just nervous about having to cut the plastic grill. It's a great looking bumper

 

I got mine for under $500, I think it was $550 shipped.

Making progress... I just MIGHT be able to get this thing on without cutting off parts!

When you put it on and start hammering it on, then take it off, you can see the high spots where the paint is chipping off the bumper... grind down corresponding spot on frame. Rinse repeat

 

Got the mother****er installed without cutting off anything!

Took about 8 hours across a few days, a couple dozen test fits, angle grinder and dremel, 2 bottle jacks (vertical and horizontal), pry bars, and god knows what else I used. It was a mess. There's no way the bolt holes will line up, so my strategy was to at least align one end of each bolt hole, then ream it out with a 1/2" drill. Tomorrow I'll tighten her down and drill for the vertical bolts.

 

After only 2 bottles of jack? I would have drank a whole case...

 

Once I cut off the lower plates 90% of my issues went away! Then I spent maybe 15min bolting it up and I was then onto installing the Warn M8000 & cutting the grill support bar.

My frame was as smooth & straight as it could be and without the lower plate removed there was a NO WAY it was going to bolt on.