TACO LEAN, armor bumper

hey - i put the trail gear on my truck recently and noticed something funny

i thought i had made a mistake by fastening lower bolt on one side before forward facing bolts, opposite on other side, and thought i might have installed it wrong and unaligned (i found a half inch difference at the very rear ends of the tube on each side)
but then i wondered why the very front seemed pretty clean lines and gaps
and came to conclusion, the taco lean on drivers side, is the highside on bumper alignment

i think the taco lean made the front bumper level haha, or if i undo the side i did forward bolts before bottom one and somehow get it mounted higher, the taco lean will make it seem unaligned from the very front

food for thought haha

i guess you can see it a bit from the very front (notice far ends, as well as little clip under headlight filler...but as of now i decided to leave it alone, i think from the front it seems decently aligned, prob just some ocd making me think of trying to tight up the passenger side)

 

I can't see anything wrong with so it's probably fine

 

Do you happen to have a body lift?

 

Looks pretty darn straight, but I would try to align it to the body lines, not the ground.

 

Hard to tell from that photo. Ground beneath the tires does not look dead flat or level.

Go to someplace with an absolutely dead-flat level surface, like a new parking lot or concrete loading dock or some such, and put 2 long spirit (builder's) levels on it. One level on the bumper, another level on the hood.

And/or if you don't have long spirit levels, just use a tape measure to various lower points on the body & front bumper.

 

Don’t know if this applies but my ARB has up and down adjustment room.

It’s been awhile but I think the instructions for it said make the gap 10-15mm which I found AA battery about that height so I used that as a gauge to try and space it on both sides.

the idea being there is flex between the body and frame. Bumper is considered part of the frame being it’s attached to it.

so that during any movement such as a recovery you’re not crunching the bumper into the panels above and whatnot.

 

no

 

thanks for the input everyone. i basically took from the responses that it isnt obviously misaligned and i dont think it is worth it to me to unbolt one side entirely and retighten with bottom first then side bolts.

for those curious it is about .75" gap on one side and 1.25 inch on other, at the very ends

good enough

 

Which bumper is this?

 

Trail gear, 90s vibes. Yew

 

I just don't understand no-hoop bumpers.

If you're going to bother to put a bumper on there it oughtta be full coverage, esp. against some of the most-likely high speed collisions like deer.

I guess maybe if you live or 4x4 where there are no deer? Isn't the entire USA basically deer country?

 

I could have but I didn't really want the extra weight vs the risk and this thing will put a hurt and defend pretty good too. Even with oem pro headlights and oem color grill $
110 lbs and 70 lb 10k winch, I'm glad with the fitment and quality this far. Going to be running to nh in future exploring class 6 rds and local wheeling