take off about 1/8" of metal form the outside of the body mount metal. ![]() there are two mounting brackets that are not used for 1st gen, and they WILL contact the front body mounts. ARB does not mention this, but after removal I noticed some paint missing from the bumper on the inside. if you do not mount it like this, and you decide to just bolt it through the back of the fairlead, the cable will contact the ARB bumper during use. you have to use some snap ring pliers to remove the c-clips and outer rollers from the fairlead, then use the supplied bolts from ARB to mount it. the fairlead is a little confusing but there are some notes about it in the ARB instructions. there is a small ground wire that isn't mentioned in any install notes or videos I could find, so I simply grounded it to the body behind the grill using a small 10mm bolt. the warn wiring is cake, they color code everything. you use the hardware warn provides to install the winch, but you need the mount ARB supplies to mount the control box. if it were clocked I think they would suck down into the bumper a little more. I believe I will eventually pull it off again and clock the ends of the winch, because the power cables stick out a little too far in my opinion. I will put up more pictures after I install the winch,fairlead, and turn lamps.Īfter hot bolting the bumper up to ensure fitment, I pulled it back off to install the winch (went with a warn m8000), make some trims to the body mounts, and reinstall. the two large bolts in the kit are for the fairlead. there are several smaller bolts along the under side of the bumper. the remaining hardware is self explanatory. Install the supplied bolts into the lower holes of where your oem bumper mounts, and then two more where your oem tow points were mounted. this bumper fits very closely to the fender so be careful. I used a tranny jack to line it up and push it into place. you are supplied with new turn lamps and new hardware. then take a grinder and flush it out, and throw a light coat of paint over any bare metal. insert a pry bar under the extension and lightly pry up, they will pop right off. I used a crow bar and it took a matter of about 15 second. Now the cringing, remove the two extensions that hold the upper 17mm bumper bolts. there are (2) 10mm bolts on each brace, plus what appears to be a spot weld, ill know for sure tonight when I remove mine. You will also need to either trim or remove the small braces that are under the bumper end caps. Now the oem tow points, each has (2) 17mm bolts located under each side of the frame. Next remove the skid plate, by removing the (4) 12mm bolts. Remove the (4) 17mm bolts holding the bumper on, located on either side of the front of the frame, and remove the bumper. Next remove the screws holding the valance on located in the center, the valance should come off.ĭisconnect your turn signal lamps, located behind the bumper. Start by removing the (4) 10mm bolts at the ends of your factory bumper there are two under the small black plastic covers on your bumper end caps and two on the lower valance under the end caps. I will be pulling it back off today to fit the winch and trim the body mount metal. I test fitted the bumper last night, basically hot bolted it with the 4 main bolts. ![]() ![]() I will be trimming my body mount metal about 1/4" to solve this. the bumper is pretty good quality but I will say that there are two brackets (one on either side of the bumper) near the turn lamps that are not used on the 1st gen and will contact the body mount slightly. the bumper ships with a caution label stating that it only fits 89-95 vehicles and should never be used on anything else, although it is also for 86-89 4runner, you can verify this by crossing the part numbers on the ARBUSA website. a buddy helps, two help a lot especially if your installing a winch. other than that this bumper is a pretty simple install. the two small extensions need to be removed in order to mount this bumper. your factory bumper attaches to two brackets that bolt to your subframe (the piece that runs from frame rail to frame rail) and to the two little brackets that are lightly welded to the top of the subframe. I cannot verify this for second gens because have never owned one. First and foremost I was to point out that if you have a IFS 1st gen, this bumper requires modification to your truck. there doesn't seem to be many detailed installs documented in the forums and as per usual ARB's directions suck. I picked up my ARB bumper yesterday on my way home from work.
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