It's a nice bumper, but I don't think it is what I would consider a tough off road bumper. I didn't get the tubes either. I think for $800 bucks I'd look around.
I love Moab, way too crowded these days, there's a back way in to Arches, I think now you might have to book a time to go in through the entrance, I've seen the line double stacked all the way out to 191. Those are nice pics BTW
I always hope the wind is blowing South when I go through Amarillo, another cool thing to see if you're in the Palo Duro Canyon area Is the museum in Canyon. lots of history about that area from the cattle drive era & Indian history, very much worth the effort to check it out. Panhandle Plains...
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I had a lady try to park a one ton van next to me in a hospital parking lot. She clipped my front end hard enough to dent the front bumper just a bit. Now believe it or not, she went to security & reported it and they announced it over the PA system and I got her contact & insurance information...
You might look at the ARB bumper, I put one on after a valet parking attendant gifted me with the right rear pushed in just barely touching the body. It seem like it was around $500 bucks. The only drawback I had was trying to get a pin in the trailer hitch, I had to cut away a little metal...
I had a kid service advisor pull that crap on me, said my transmission plug was stripped on my Ram Cummins, I said then you must have done it since nobody has ever touched it, it magically became OK after that. I usually do my own stuff, just don't like transmission work.
Nice writeup D60, I'm also a retired machinist & don't know how anybody without those skills gets by with the way things are made these days. It seems like everything you buy needs to be modified or repaired in some way for it to function as expected.