Originally Posted By: dlundblad
Originally Posted By: JeepWJ19
Yepp. Same thing when I was shopping for them. Found a guy who made relocation brackets for WJ bull bars to actually protect the grille (all stock bull bars mounting arms run below the front bumper). His brackets which were thick slabs of steel are located in my frame horns, along with other brackets he made for DRing recovery points.
What brand did you end up going with? I wanted a bull bar ~8 years ago, but didn't want to sacrifice my factory tow points, hence why my IPF's are mounted on my front bumper. Briefly, there was a company who made milled WJ front end D ring tow points, but I think they sold the design to someone else. Easy design. Can't believe it didn't take off.
I went with the prior known Texas Hunter bull bar. Forget what they are called now. They got bought out by a Chinese company and went with a "one size fits all" design so my bull bar wasn't at the right width for the relocation mounts. So currently it's offset by an inch but you can't hardly notice it unless looking straight at it and being very attentitive to it.
I wanted recovery points like you did so bought his DRing tabs and they have come to really good use.
The brush guard has held up nicely for the past three years. Could use a touch up in paint but was still solid after hitting a young deer, since it was mounted higher it forced the deer to roll under the Jeep and it was just a weird event because my Jeep straddled the deer when it was under. The deer seemed fine as by the time I pulled over it was gone. It has protected my grille from brush many of times here in the PA mountains. It was overall a good purchase.
Currently drawing the wiring diagram for off road lights because it gets dark up in the mountains and a little extra light on some twisty and tight dirt/stone roads would help