Endura bumper brackets

[jg396]

I think that this was maybe disgussed once before but couldn't find it. I've got a reproduction endura bumper and brackets on my car and the frame rail brakets are not matching up at all with the frame rail extenions that they need to fasten to. Has any body else worked with this and gotten it to work out? I don't know if it's the brackets or if my extensions where tweeked a little in it's pasted history (that I don't know). They look straight, but who knows for sure. Any help with this would be greatly appreciatted. Thanks, Jesse.

[Mark_C]

It's the brackets. I've got an original bumper with repro inner brackets. The bracket seems to be off by about 15 degrees from vertical on mine. Almost seems like the bolt holes where they attach to the bumper extensions are not drilled correctly. I had to elongate the holes to get it anywhere near correct. Bolt everything together loosly and then tighten the two bolts going into the bumper though the bracket last. I still think that mine needs some work as the upper edge of the bumper seems awfully tight to the lip on my RS grille in the area between these brackets. I think the bracket is twisting the bumper slightly rolling the upper edge back into the grille.

The repro outer brackets will also push your bumper out away from the fender about 1/4" more than the original ones do giving you a bigger gap at the ends of the fender than normal.

[bkhpah]

As is the case more often than not, the poor reproduction parts that get sold cost untold hours and money. I over heard one of the bigger vendors one time that make this crap laugh about the poor quality of some of their parts, but didn't really care that much because most people will not return the parts. The few that do return them don't even put a dent in the profits. I have never bought a part from this vendor since....BKH