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Swapping the Mojave plastic bumper with the Mopar steel bumper

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Yes, I just changed out two things.
The red hooks that come with it for my orange Mojave hooks.
I also chose to reuse the factory fog lights so I didn't have to mess with any wiring.

I was actually surprised with the quality and additional parts such as winch plate, additional hooks, fog lights and grille guard given the price point.
Did it come with fog light adapters to use oem halogen fogs?
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I will be doing this swap , do you have to install any nutserts on the Mojave for the steel bumper to work. If so does anyone have the molar nutsert part number and quantity. Thanks
 

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I will be doing this swap , do you have to install any nutserts on the Mojave for the steel bumper to work. If so does anyone have the molar nutsert part number and quantity. Thanks
I just took my plastic one off, put the steel one on using the OEM bolts/hardware. I diid have to grind the underside if the steel bumper to get my skid plate to bolt up correctly.
 

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I did my swap on Wednesday. I bought the eBay knock-off and like many of you, I was impressed by the quality and the extra parts that came with it. I also swapped the red hooks for my orange Mojave hooks and used my original LED fog lights. I trimmed the skid plate so it would mount properly. Next up will be a winch.
 

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I did my swap on Wednesday. I bought the eBay knock-off and like many of you, I was impressed by the quality and the extra parts that came with it. I also swapped the red hooks for my orange Mojave hooks and used my original LED fog lights. I trimmed the skid plate so it would mount properly. Next up will be a winch.
Do you have a link to the one you bought? Any pics of it installed?
 

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That is absolutely a fantastic deal! Looks awesome on your Mojave!
 

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Well, took 3.5 hours since I wanted my orange tow hooks.

It came with no instructions, which after some looking it seemed pretty clear to me.

1. Take out all the plastic pins, everywhere my lord...
2. Undo the 18mm bumper bolts.
3. Swap orange tow hooks.
4. Install LEDs and run the cables.
5. Hold the winch plate and bumper and tow hooks all at once and get it on....
6. Installed a Rubicon skid plate.

Is the winch plate only held on by the bumper bolts? I thought there would be support in the rear, but having no instructions or any clear indication I couldn't make sense of it - so it is only held on by the 8 bumper bolts.

Turned out pretty awesome though!

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