ARB Rear Bumper fitted

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ARB test fitted a Navara rear bumper on my 07 Frontier recently, so here's the report and images.
The bumper installed without issues. Just a small amount of weld needed to be removed on the upper, outside corners of both frame rails, and as as with anything with tight tolerances it took a little persuasion with with a hammer and block of wood to get it the last half inch. The bumper mounts with all six threaded inserts on both sides as used with our class IV receiver and bumper. It is rated at 6600# with a tongue weight of 660#.
There is a rear filler panel kit sold separately to fill the area above the bumper previously covered with the stock bumper. This filler panel is designed for an Australian truck, and took a few modifications to adapt it to my truck. We needed to drill another set of holes in the filler panel to mount it, since the lower two mounting holes did not line up with anything we could attach to. The license plate holes are for their long, skinny license plates and the license plate light is designed to mount above. Our US plates are slightly taller than the filler panel, so I purchased two Hella side mount license plate lights and attached my rear plate with industrial strength Velcro rather than drilling holes through the license plate itself.
The tubes that wrap around under the rear fenders are structural. They're boxed and gusseted back into the frame of the bumper, and you should be able to literally jack the truck up from these tubes. A following post will show the structure photographed from below when I had the 5-bar diamond plate and filler panel removed.
Here's an image of the finished product, and I'll follow right away with a few other images.
Ed

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Here's a shot from the rear corner.

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Rear shot.

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Anther shot taken to show the structure.

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This last shot was also taken with the diamond plate and filler panels removed.

[SQnismo]

looks good. i would rather have the recever and recovery points on the top of the bar so you would have more ground clerence in the back.

[dhmachine86]

looks awesome.

how much did it set you back? and how much was shipping??

[98 frontier 4x4]

im lovin it! any chance it would fit a 1st gen lol

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Here are responses to both questions: First regarding clearance - I measured the distance from the ground to the lower, inside edge of the optional North American class IV receiver before I removed it, and found that the ARB receiver is now 2" higher than before. Ground clearance and departure angle are now improved, in spite of how it may appear.
Second, not sure what the bumper will retail for. ARB USA will take orders for it and the filler panel now, but probably don't have any in stock. They bring containers over all the time, so the wait should not be too long.
The description and part numbers are as follows:
RSTB Nissan 06+ bumper, part number 3638030
Rear Navara Panel Kit, part Number 3538020
Ed

[NismoCC]

Wow.. Ed, very nice! You are really heading up some productive efforts over there that will benefit us all. The bumper looks really nice. I love the sliders for the rear fender bottoms. Do you know if there is a way to use shackles instead of the loop-holes for recovery? I am not saying this is a downfall, I am just curious. I know most ARB front bumpers have the tabs with holes for shackles. Thanks again!