Topic: Corner Guards

[FourbangerYJ]

You can beef up the area where it gets drilled and tapped. You can add whatever thickness of material to drill and tap thru on the outside of the bumper. 1/4 or 3/16 is plenty. Or in Jeffy's case I would add it to the inside of the bumper. With the cutouts for the tail lights you can weld the extra plate inside that the tapped holes would go thru.
I did beef up the crossmember a little not much. The nutserts for mine in the frame on the bottom are loose so they just spin. (knock on wood) I have had no problems with my set up. Even with the spring hangers welded on to it.

[neale_rs]

The stock crossmsmber is pretty thin to begin with so it's not going to be any weaker then what's already there.  You can pull off the stock bumper locations as long as your careful.  Also, keep in mind that I would utilize the bottom frame bolt for the bumper so it would be tied to the frame.  The location was originally designed for use with a trailer hitch.

So your shackles don't hit the bolt heads of the bottom frame bolts?  Mine where hitting there, which is why I took them out.

[Jeffy]

So your shackles don't hit the bolt heads of the bottom frame bolts?  Mine where hitting there, which is why I took them out.

I don't believe so but I have dog leg rear 1/4" lift shackles.

[neale_rs]

Interesting, I guess every Jeep setup is a bit different but mine were hitting with 1/2 lift boomerang shackles.  Maybe your 35s or bumpstops keep it from compressing so much.

[Jeffy]

Interesting, I guess every Jeep setup is a bit different but mine were hitting with 1/2 lift boomerang shackles.  Maybe your 35s or bumpstops keep it from compressing so much.

My shackles don't have the H so there is no way they would ever hit the bolt head.

[neale_rs]

Well, it's actually the spring eye part that would hit.

[Jesse-James]

I have eight 1/2" bolts tapped into mine and frame tie ins. I've yanked on it to the point where the ass end of the Jeep came off the ground and it hasn't budged. It's seen a couple years of abuse and all is good. 

[Jeffy]

I've been yanked from the rear with only the 8 bolts and didn't have a problem.  The pull was from the receiver hitch so it was spread out between them.

[FourbangerYJ]

What are your thoughts on the corner guards Jeffy?

[Jeffy]

What are your thoughts on the corner guards Jeffy?

I'm probably going to go with the short corners and hopefully with no light cutouts.  I haven't called around yet since I've got a few other projects that are ahead of it.  I either want to do 2 2" on the corners or leave them blank and put the lights in the bumper.  Then I don't have to worry about blocking them with the spare.  Legally you only need two brake lights, total.  I'm sure you need 2 turn signals as well.  You only need one reverse light though, which is what I'm using my PIAA for at the moment.

I want to play around with PH and see what my Jeep would look like without tail lights and think about the rear bumper.

Oh and the other problem is I just put the sticker on!