I got to the point where I wanted to upgrade to a steel bumper & I never liked the the fact that the weight of my oversized spare was riding entirely on the tailgate. Even with the Teraflex reinforcement kit my tailgate was starting to creak & groan a lot when opening & closing the gate & I was worried that the hinges might wear out or the gate itself might become permanently tweaked if I left it on there. I also wanted the options to carry some Rotopax on the rear & rather than have them adding more weight to the tire decided to just take care of all those with one product.
Why don’t you use the Tera flex spare tire carrier? What made you go with the warn bumper and tire carrier?
I got to the point where I wanted to upgrade to a steel bumper & I never liked the the fact that the weight of my oversized spare was riding entirely on the tailgate. Even with the Teraflex reinforcement kit my tailgate was starting to creak & groan a lot when opening & closing the gate & I was worried that the hinges might wear out or the gate itself might become permanently tweaked if I left it on there. I also wanted the options to carry some Rotopax on the rear & rather than have them adding more weight to the tire decided to just take care of all those with one product.