Thank you for this great video. I'm on the fence on this or the DV8, but I think the FF looks better and appears to be one solid piece as opposed to a 3-piece design. Post a follow-up review!
Glad I could help! Since I had this bumper on I went off road a lot, did a number on the bumper and it did the job to protect my truck, will follow up soon!
Thanks for the video! I am about to get a 2011 tundra and your truck is an inspiration. What kind of front grill is on the tundra? i've seen the sequoia grills and the trd grill, but i've never seen your front grill?
I ended up buying that bumper and it's on my truck. Do you have a small gap between the new bumper mounting brackets and the frame horns where the OEM recovery points were bolted up? I have a 3/16" gap there. Other than that fitment is pretty good.
I think I have the same situation, what I did was during the installing, I tied up the bottom bolt(the original oem recovery point bolts) super tie so it has less gap.
I found this same problem during the installation of the brackets tonight. There’s approximately a 7/16” space between the chassis and bracket arms. This must be corrected before mounting heavy winch, etc and using for winching. I snapped a picture of the gap and emailed Fab Four for their input since they weren’t available via phone. I believe they should make new brackets that fit the contour adequately. This is a high stress area and can not afford to disregard. I also noted it appears I will have to use the OEM fasteners for the brackets? Their provided bolts don’t fit and the corse thread on their bolts won’t work in the mounting holes under bracket arms due to being a fine thread. No way will I drill into that chassis and risk compromising it’s integrity; it’s a fairly small amount of metal to began and this bumper assembly is super heavy. It troubles me to use OEM fasteners on these brackets and know they were never spec’d for this heavy bumper assembly and winching.
I have all the same issues. I have to use the original fasteners that came off oem brackets(don't like) And the bolts that come with are hard and seem to strip one u start putting them in. What did u guys do this irritates me bcuz is high stress points?
What is the pulling capacity of your smittybilt winch? My truck is almost exactly as yours. I bought a 9,500 lb smittybilt winch. I have a tent, bed rack and an M1 Smittybilt bumper. Not sure if it’s enough power. Thank you in advance.
Mine is the same 9,500 lb, it's not enough. And I have already smoked my winch once. It couldn't handle the weight and I had other friends use a second winch on the truck. It still works to get me out of light stuck, but I will be looking for a heavier one to replace before my next trip.
@@47samuraironin definitely something over 12,000. I been looking at badland winches recently, but if budget allows I’ll go with warn. I probably use badland is because they are in every harbor freight or maybe tractor supply and it would be helpful if I’m having a winch failure when traveling
I believe this bumper is strong enough to push other vehicles because, according to Fab Fours, it's designed for holding a 12,000lb winch and of course it's connected to the structure of the truck. I haven't try to push other vehicles myself but however, I think it's gonna definitely work in a case of emergency. But there is one thing in my concern if pushing, the angle of the bumper and how high it sits on my truck. These things may not work with pushing a lower car such as a sedan? For the weight, according to the manufacturers, it's 130lbs and it took 3 people to hold it on to the truck while I'm tightening down the screws.
@@haroldz3914 fast reply! Thx. Yeah I do security work and sometimes when driving on the compound I find bystanders either broke down or stranded on the road side and have to give them a jump or push them.. my stock bumper just wasn't having it so I was looking into buying an aftermarket, I looked at one called Westin HDX grille guard which looks tough enough but I like this bumper you got sense out has the winch mount and is pretty decent priced... 130lbs isn't that much, other fab four bumpers can go over 300 plus. Great video btw!
It's made of 1/8in plate which i believe is way too thin for a truck as heavy as a tundra. It looks nice, but i think of you get that bumper into some rocks, it is going to fold and possibly crush your headlights or bend back into your wheel wells.
@@KurNorock It's OK, I actually got a bumper called ranch hand summit series for my F150 It works exactly what I needed for and it's made out of 11 gauge folded steel. 👍
If you mean the plastic part came with the original front bumper then yes I did took it off. But I installed the winch when I installing the metal bumper and to do that I need whole oem bumper off first
@@haroldz3914 Yes the upper part. Awesome thanks bro, I'm debating on this one or Smittybilt. Did you also already have heavy duty coil springs to support bumper?
@@jakeestrada1239 Depends on the bumper you got, some I know you need to keep it. This one I got is tall enough(or big enough)so I don't need it. I recommend you checkout some pictures of other tundras with the bumper you bought on it and see if other keep the part or not.
@@jakeestrada1239 I haven't got coil springs yet because I'm saving money for the whole front suspension and gonna wait to do it all together. So far after a year with that bumper, the suspension holds it no problem
