What have you done to your 200 Series this week? (33 Viewers)

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I saw your post in the rear bumper (non swingout) thread. You'll have to do that cutting mentioned for the swing out bumper as well. We cut flush to the brackets for a cleaner area (and painted).

The swingouts and associated installs around them account for +60% of the time spent installing if you have both sides. I wish you were closer. Dawn and I agreed we could do it in less than half the time on the next go.
 
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Sorry Kreiten...took me a few days to get these up. Thanks

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Looks great! I see you kept your tie downs huh? I decided to ditch mine and just kept the tow hooks.

Best color too ;)
whoops - i'll be deleting those..... and yes BEST COLOR!
 
Mocked up.

Looks like the ARB wiring harness in incompatable with US spec 200s.

Bummer.

I will have to custom wire the rear lights (according to Slee who I talked to this morning) and from IM'ing @JamesC and @DawnC

I am still waiting to hear from the shop about the left side cover plate that has still not been delivered. I can not go much further with the install until the cover plate is installed. I hope it comes in tomorrow!

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Once you have that finished, we need a full photo montage of that truck. That thing is shuh-WEET!!
 
That photo makes it look like the spare will completely obstruct the passenger side taillight - but that can't be right, right?
 
It is just the angle.

From looking at it, it looks like it will obstruct the light about 70-80%. I could be completely wrong though!

The lights on the bottom of the bumper will be wired to the turn signals and the brake lights, so all should be well from a safety standpoint.
 
looks great so far - can't wait ton see the finished deal with a 35" hanging off the back!
 
That photo makes it look like the spare will completely obstruct the passenger side taillight - but that can't be right, right?


It pretty much blocks the entire tail light when you have the spare mounted. That's why the bumper is lit separately.
 
Mocked up.

Looks like the ARB wiring harness in incompatable with US spec 200s.

Bummer.

I will have to custom wire the rear lights (according to Slee who I talked to this morning) and from IM'ing @JamesC and @DawnC

I am still waiting to hear from the shop about the left side cover plate that has still not been delivered. I can not go much further with the install until the cover plate is installed. I hope it comes in tomorrow!

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What is the 3/4 side view like? Does this one require the bumper to be sectioned?
 
Yes, I just have not gotten to putting the side wings on yet.

See the picture above? That's what mine will look like once I am done.
 
Canyonero that looks great. Congrats
 
Nope, just logic with trial and error.

A few HUGE ones come to mind. I did post elsewhere on having to get a bunch of different sized washers available for the swing out hinges to rotate on. The bushes and washers supplied were too wide to fit. Grab a selection of different widths that will fit that hinge bolt they supply. In our case even when we had the washers perfect we had to grind the left side swing out because the holes were not aligned correctly from top to bottom of the ARM bumper frame.

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We also used two long GR8 carriage bolts and washers through the entire bumper and frame instead of using their hokey banjo washers with the little segmented extension arms that they want you to insert into the bumper space. Here you see the GR8 bolts inserted. The weird banjo with cage nut on the left was discarded. Many benefits to this and the only downside I can come up with is that you have one bolt instead of two in case of failure. The forces that would be required to shear this GR8, once you see how it fits through, would be so incredible that you'd have bigger problems than this bolt to worry about :)

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There are so many things unclear or wrong on the instructions that I wouldn't do much more than skim them along with each step to get the rough idea. It seemed that much of that stuff was from a 100 series that they just carried over but is wrong for our trucks? You're going to have to just hold it up, visualize it and then use trial and error.

You'll want a hoist for the alignment.

Great Advice!

@JamesC , do you happen to remember the bolt size/pattern of the Grade 8 Hardware you used to replace the hokey banjo fittings?

Edit: Looks like it will be a M12x1.75 110mm or 120mm
 
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