It started with a little parking lot mishap.
No problem. Time for a new rear bumper

Not yet, the well is dry, just bought a new front bumper so I will need to clean this boo boo up and live with it a few months. What the heck, I can repair that right, how hard can it be?
I dremeled to clean it up and then my first time ever to use bondo - uh oh!
Then one thing led to another, my bondo job was not that hot, so I started working on Plan B and took the rest of bumper apart
Figured I might as well match my rear bumper to my new front bumper and color it black. To help cover my less than perfect

bondo shop I decided to spray with Rustoleum truck bed liner
Not bad, but then realized that dark grey center cross member did't look as good as I thought with black on each side. Time to disassemble again (Plan C) and paint the cross member.
Then I started thinking

before I put that mud flaps and bumper end caps again, maybe I should use this opportunity to take the flares off and get them painted, after all new flare gaskets have been sitting in the garage waiting for a few months now.
After nearly slicing my arms off squeezing through engine bay service holes to reach the 4 interior nuts on each flare, I thought I was in the home stretch. That is until I realized I have to pull off the front bumper to remove the last two front corner bolts holding the front flairs

It's a heavy beast with winch so I will need recruit some help.
So in short (yeah right) I started with boo boo on rear bumper and here I am taking off flares and front bumper...odd.