Bed sides and rear bumpers

You'd be surprised how hard it is to find pics on this... (much less search for them!)

Long story short: long travel is the eventual goal. I'll get there eventually.

Problem: I have some cash to buy a new rear bumper (suffice it to say it's time) but I cannot figure out what will work with wider bed sides. Everything seems to either wrap around or is plate and potentially not wide enough? Ideas??

Request: let's see some ass-end shots of your long travel trucks with their sexy bumpers showing?!

 

Yeah lol. A bunch of front bumpers come up when I googled it too.
I have the stock bumper on mine with glassworks bedsides, but am planning on building a bumper. Not sure if I wanted plated, tubed, platted on the top and sides and tubed, tubed wrap around just under the tail lights or make rear fiberglass bumper caps.
I can't decide.

I might build something like this just to keep my trailer hitch.
http://www.tacomahq.com/wp-content/uploads/longtravel-tacoma-3.jpg

 

I kinda settled on doing some kind of flip-up license plate with a hidden hitch no matter how I end up. If I plan to tow that's how it's gonna go. The hard ass squat for a long travel rear with towing is a bit of a deterrent...

I wasn't able to find any real experience(s) on mounting a tire like that and how it affected fuel mileage... In other news: I'm not in love with those tire gates... or their price.

 

That picture I was just referring to the rear bumper. For mine I'm going to build spare tire holders in my bed so I can still see out the back.

Some thing like this.

 

Can't really see the kit and bedsides, lol
I need to take more pics

 

new set up doesnt really apply

 

Cant find shit for better ones at momwnt but heres one of mine with some clutter from coast ztrip

 

Heres more from 2011 when i first did it. Some.chamges for sure since then including wider tires/ bedsides but gives idea.

 

Gnarly!

You guys have some sick fucking trucks.

 

I'm not LT in the rear yet, but I have fiberwerx bedsides and I just put together a Relentless DIY rear plate bumper. Fits good