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Aftermarket bumpers not fitting skid plates.

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Here is the JCR skid with my Ace bumper, tucks in behind it just nice. On the blanket are the 4 brackets I removed to make room for attachment. I understand now that the square cutouts in the bottom of the skid are so you can place the nuts on the back of the front bolts.
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Only complaint is the hardware they shipped does not look like stainless or galvanized. And they did not include any washers so I added 4 stainless washers to the setup. It seems pretty clean and minimal which I like not adding a lot of weight, and sitting so close to the frame might work with other 3rd-party bumpers as well.

You can see in the one photo the powder coat is not a match, Ace has a brown-tone black and JCR has a blue-tone black. But sitting underneath in shade and being so plain it kind of looks like a frame cross-member so in real life the difference is not noticable.
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Here is the JCR skid with my Ace bumper, tucks in behind it just nice. On the blanket are the 4 brackets I removed to make room for attachment. I understand now that the square cutouts in the bottom of the skid are so you can place the nuts on the back of the front bolts.
20761A4B-1573-4B30-9DA5-C143AE79BFB4.jpeg
700D4098-40EF-4D15-9FE0-01106D7D6078.jpeg
E2E1C8C7-1D00-4203-904D-2570CA4045AD.jpeg
0801D764-5194-46F0-BA7C-EF7E0D015E76.jpeg
DE347299-CF5D-4F31-8832-004DAE302F96.jpeg

Only complaint is the hardware they shipped does not look like stainless or galvanized. And they did not include any washers so I added 4 stainless washers to the setup. It seems pretty clean and minimal which I like not adding a lot of weight, and sitting so close to the frame might work with other 3rd-party bumpers as well.

You can see in the one photo the powder coat is not a match, Ace has a brown-tone black and JCR has a blue-tone black. But sitting underneath in shade and being so plain it kind of looks like a frame cross-member so in real life the difference is not noticable.
thanks. That does look cleaner than the factory skid. Just Empty Every Pocket.......
 
 



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