wheadlee
New Member
I was looking at the Barricade Alloy on the Extremeterrain.com and they indicated that the Blue Ox baseplate was not compatible with this bumper. Since you have it installed I'm guessing that the folks at Extremeterrain don't know as much as they should. I already have the baseplate installed on my JL Sport S and wanted to change the ugly plastic bumper. I was going to go with a Rubicon steel bumper but I do like your setup. Did you have any issues during the install?I can answer that question, You should not flat tow from ant bumper without adding a Frame tie in Bracket, Currently LOD is the only one that makes that. Reason being is the attachement where the bumper connects to the frame is just a very light weight piece of flat metal with two tiny welds connecting it to the frame, mopar says you should not tow from that connection. The Tie in plate is a heavy duty bracket that ties in the frame plate to the frame, then you can use the LOD tow connection bracket that through bolts to the tie in bracket, this is assuming that the bumper you chose is through bolt capable.
If you are pulling with a gas motorhome you need to watch your weight as you do not want to exceed 5000lbs typically, I recommend you install an aluminum bumper to manage the weight.
Myself when I set up my wrangler I installed the Blue OX tow plate as the LOD tie in bracket did not exist. While some have suggested that you lose clearance with the tow plate that is absolutely false as most of the bumper designed for towing are rather large with alot of heights for example the LOD towable Bumper is about 1/2-1' lower than my tow plate so clearance is about the same. In fact my tow connection is only 4.5" below the lowest bumper bolt, most of the towable bumpers set lower than that (That may cjhange as more bumpers become available)
With that said I plan to install the LOD tie in bracket and Blue OC connection bracket and remove my tow plate simply for aesthetics. I use the Barricade Alloy (aluminum bumper (45lbs)
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