Just finished my Coastal Offroand bumper build. I ordered the long arm kit and jerry can holder. The location of the latch block is far enough over it shouldn’t be a leg catcher. I won’t go into a lot of build pics since there is enough info in the Coastal Offraod thread. I was back and forth on how to coat it and finally settled on POR15. I prepped it with flap disk, sprayed it with brake clean then used POR metal prep which is basically phosphoric acid. I then put on three coats of POR15, then used the POR self etching primer before top coating the vertical parts with hammered matte gray. Matched pretty close to the ARB front bumper. The horizontal parts I coated with spay on bed liner so we would have a nonskid surface climbing in/out of the back.
I also reinforced the the hinge area like Bluetribal did. The lock pin is my addition and not part of the kit. I also reinforced the vertical part of tire holder with angle on each side plus the back of all verticals. Just a little extra cheap insurance. I added these foldable steps on both sides of the bumper and think these will come in quite handy.
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