Ok... Day 4 update.

The bumper is ON. Long story short, this is how it's staying until the Spring. I'm going to need to make new brackets and I wasn't confident I could get the bumper back on if I took it off today... there's some bare steel under there that i'll clean up when i have more time, and material on hand to make new brackets.

I consider this a success; it's finally presentable.







Hopefully Jon can work through the issues i've had. If he does and the installation is as easy as its supposed to be, the Steel Armadillo bumper is definitely a "must have". Unfortunately for me, some of the things that make this bumper so great (extremely strong, low profile with no space to spare, etc) worked against me due to the fitment/angle issues.