Never mind plastic and fiberglass, THIS is a body kit! I installed a new front bumper on the 4Rocker, made by TJM from Australia. This thing was only $600 (probably another $150 for shipping) compared to twice that for the stocker! I had LineX truck bed coating applied with Kevlar coating to keep it from turning gray and because I was sick of having a tank front end, but have to worry about the powdercoating getting scratched on tree branches.
Here is the stock bumper removed, you can see the tranny cooler and the wiring and solenoid pack for the winch:
The bumper brackets. A winch puts side loads on the bumper during sidepulls using the winch, so they are a little on the big/dorky sie for a reason:
Naturally, the 4Rocker being of really small stature, the winch wouldn't fit between the front crossbrace and the TJM bumper and the clutch lever would have been unreachable. I had to remote mount the solenoid pack and build a harness with stainless steel brackets, clock the clutch, and then color code the wiring because I will forget how everything goes together when I remove and reinstall everything 6 months down the road. Here is the stripping and prep of the winch:
The bumper didn't have provisions to mount the stock fog lights, so once again I needed to fab up some brackets. The front turn signal holes in the bumper was of legal DOT size so instead I installed side marker lights as turn signals which are exactly half the width leaving room for the fog lights. I fabbed out of aluminum some brackets to hold both the fog and turn signal lights, painted, and installed. No wires were cut/spliced as I reused the stock turn signal bulbs and made out of aluminum receptacles for the stock turn signal bulb holders. Whew. Go to a 4wd shop and get a bumper installed and it takes them 2 hours. After all the LineX harnesses, brackets, and relocating, it takes me a couple weeks:
Front bumper finished off with some shackle hangers I fabbed up and painted using polyurethane. On off road trips with the Suncoast Flatlanders they require a drivers license, insurance, and yes, front and rear tow hooks. No, attaching a tow strap to your grill or through a hole in a plastic bumper doesn't count. "Back in these parts we use Steel":
Sonoran Steel made and shipped me a rear bumper to match the front, while they still shipped them from AZ. This thing it awful heavy, probably 150 lbs, takes 3 people to install, and is one solid piece. I feel sorry for the bloke with front crumple zones who rear-ends me. I also had LineX applied with the kevlar coating. I fabbed up a stainless steel antenna mount to go with it:
