True North Open Wing Hybrid Bumper DIY KIT / 03-09 4Runner

An aftermarket steel front bumper serves many purposes. For one, it protects vital front end components. Two, it drastically improves your approach angle. Three, it allows you to safely mount a winch and add auxiliary front lighting.  This hybrid bumper from True North accomplishes all of those things while keeping the weight to around 90lbs. This item ships as a DIY KIT. The fully welded bumper can be found HERE.  Frame tie ins are HIGHLY recommended if winching with the bumper. Product Info Most DIY bumper kits include dozens of small flat pieces of metal and require hours of lining up, welding, and grinding, which can be incredibly frustrating and time-consuming. We set out to design a DIY bumper kit unlike any other. All the parts are laser cut and press bent with slotted and tabbed edges. This means it requires a fraction of the welding and grinding compared to other kits. With the built-in tabs, the bumper pieces line up perfectly and don't require you to consistently be checking measurements. You don’t even need to have the bumper on the 4runner to be able to tack it together. The new open hybrid design is stronger, more lightweight, and offers the best approach angle of any other True North bumper to date. Not to mention it looks badass! We wanted to be able to offer the best fitment possible so we took our design a step above all the other fabrication companies out there and had the front of the truck laser-scanned! This allows us to model the bumper within our cad programs using a virtual representation of the truck that is accurate to within .005 inches! The frame mounting plate, winch plate, and skid supports are all 11 gauge HRPO steel. The main vertical supports are 1/4” thick steel. All other sheet metal parts are made of 11 gauge HRPO steel. All tubing is 1.75 OD 11 gauge ERW steel. The bumper was modeled around a warn m8000 winch that has a 10" x 4.5" mounting pattern and centered fairlead/spool. Other winches may fit (similar size and mounting pattern required). Depending on the winch size you will possibly need to detach and relocate the control box. We realized that these bumpers are going to be mounted on 15ish-year-old vehicles and the chances of each and every one of them having a perfect frame with no previous front-end damage are slim. So in order to offer the best fitment possible, we made all the mounting points slightly oversized. This will give you a little adjustability when mounting. Depending on how far you need to adjust you will possibly need to use washers as shims between the bumper and the frame. New bolts and washers are included. Weighs roughly 90 lbs. Any grille guard tubing will add to this.   Notes This bumper will not work with body lifts without leaving a gap. It will work with stock height and suspension lifted vehicles. There may be small imperfections on the surfaces of the parts, such as small areas of surface rust or shallow scratches caused during the manufacturing or shipping processes.