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What's your Ironman 4x4 bumper experience? (1 Viewer)
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Not planning on adding winch, only front bumper .
Trail traitor is out, can't seem to find anyone else selling.
Im running BP51
Greetings all. I'm finally getting my ironman bumper in. I have "prepped" everything for install as outlined in their instructions. My question is, has anyone had issues with headlights cracking where the headlight locating tabs are? Does the front camera get relocated? How is the wiring for the LED lights? Thanks.
What is the prep?
How do the ride on pavement? Still main family vehicle as wife doesn't like to have the kids in her car.
Removal of the bumper (as shown in the pic), removal of the wire harness, parking sensors, and headlight washers from the stock bumper, trimming of the air scoops and center support.
Page 3 of this thread (Post #41), Bullgump posted some detailed/ informative instructions about connecting the lights. For the front camera, the IM bumper does obstruct the view (annoyingly) and I plan on relocating it like Atwalz posted on #34 post of this thread.
btw, the only concern I have are the two larger front tabs. Both are 1/3" from the edge of the IM bumper and I may need to move the bumper more forward and/ or cut out the two tabs. It will definitely rub/ hit and damage the headlights if there is shifting of the bumper. Has anyone cut the tabs off or know of a good solution? The cut holes may need to be sealed to prevent moisture from getting into the headlights?
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FWIW I had an early version of the Trail Tailor bumper and I had this same issue on my 2013, though @TonyP didn't. (I think it's more of some odd differences in my 2013, as the front parking sensor grommets on mine were different than TonyP's). I ended up using an angle grinder to notch the spot in the bumper to add clearance and then painted it. So far no issues. Depending on how the other headlight spacing looks you might try to loosen the bumper bolts from the frame and see if you can shift it over a tiny bit - it's possible the alignment is slightly off and the nub should line up better with the gap. I would not recommend grinding the spot on the headlights as I'd worry about cracking them.
Have ironman improved there coating I know they had some rust problems years back .
Does everyone leave their ironman bumper in the black coat it comes with or paint to match to their suv?
I left the original ones on mine so far, but they are not sticking out as much. What does everyone go with tundra ones or TT?
Trail Tailor will not work. The eyelet will not be accessible due to interference from the bottom mount of bumper cradle.
I have a set of tundra recovery hooks but they look dumb. They stick down almost two inches - it bugs me to install a high clearance bumper only to install something that reduces clearance.
Don't know about the tundra hooks, but they look like they drop clearance of the front end. I've thought about chopping the ironman to fit the ARBs, but I always chicken out because it's the front member that the bumper attaches to.
I wonder if the ironman ones for the gx would work?
