[John Harden]

Well, I installed the winch mount guard today. Very impressed with it, both the design and hardware. All hardware is grade 8 or better and comes neatly wrapped with instructions that include the appropriate torque specification for each bolt. Pics are below. I'll have to do this in multiple e-mails in order to fit in all the pics. Hope you don't mind.

The first one shows the truck stock (well, with my lift, shocks, etc.). I'll describe the installation that goes with the pics.

1. Remove the grill and bumper, then the skid plate and tow hooks.

2. Install the upper braces, which are 3/8" thick flat bar with a 90 degree bend in them. Clever design, whereby you fish a nut up into the frame cross member and use a bolt with flat and lock washer from the rear. Nut is supplied and comes with a 6" long rod welded to it so fishing it up into the cross member for installation is a snap.

3. Now install the lower braces, first on the face side using the supplied metric hardware. Then, you bolt them from below along with the tow hooks and skid plate hardware using the stock bolts. Torque to specification supplied.