Install tips.
Get a friend preferably 2 to help fitting it, it is impossible alone, heavy and awkward.
Finish fitting it first, then paint it, then refit and tighten down.
If you live in the rust belt, consider having it galvanized, I may still pull it and do that. Fixing spots that get hit by flying gravel, or very large rocks is easy with a rattle can but galvanizing is the bomb.
I needed to straighten one of my bumper mounts to make it square to the truck with a BFH, which is also useful with a cold chisel to pop the tacked stock bumper sqare nuts off.
I had to grind down the rear lip of the body by a fraction so the bumper would snug up to the rear, this part is steel so prime and rustproof afterwards.
You may find it bolts right up after the cuts, or you may find that it is true that what works on one side of a rover doesn’t neccesarily work on the other.
Take your time, make it right.
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You could use the stock hitch with it by removing the bent plate that uses the 2 factory bolts under the receiver, the bumper still uses 4 bolts on the brackets plus 3 in each wheel well. You would loose a lot of the clearance you gained though. The plate below the receiver is notched so you can bend it to fit perfectly, a couple good hits with a BFH would bend it far enough to whack it back the other way and break it off so you can use the fatory hitch I believe. These are fabbed to order so you could probably get it without the plate there to begin with.
DII Chassis, DII Exterior
Refill blades are available from ANCO part W-21R. They can be found at Autozone in the U.S. ANCO may also be found at Sears.
DII Exterior
Does the washer bottle on a D2 need to be relocated for a TJM T15 bumper?
No relocation required on my ‘04.
If you chose to get a winch tray and winch the following applies.
The winch tray was difficult to get over the frame crossmember on mine it actually required a block of wood and a 20lb sledge also if you have a winch to go in the tray be sure to check the clearances. I say this because after I had put the tray on as per the instructions provided by TJM I found that my Superwinch X9 didn’t drop in and I actually had to pull the tray off set the winch in and pound the tray on again.
By the way, did you see an improvment in the approach angle?
My T17 was the same way. I installed the tray and the winch would not fit.
Fortunately for me, I had an overzealous friend nearby.When he saw me struggling to not scrape the paint off my winch or bumper, he politely pushed the winch in for me. Afterall, straight metal and paint are not necessary .
Even after the winch was placed into the tray, I had to use a crowbar to push the freespool lever away from a bolt so it would rotate correctly I would suggest all S9000 users to rotate the freespool housing prior to installation of the winch into a TJM winch tray.
I have a T15 on my 99D2. You will not need to relocate the washer bottle.
I had to remove the bumper to install a Warn XD9000 winch, but it just dropped into the winch tray.
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DII Exterior
