towing a Jeep with aftermarket bumper

Mikeborny wrote:
Recently bought a 2015 Jeep Unlimited Sahara with a Barricade after market bumper. Blue ox said they only needed the plate thickness of where the "d" rings attached and the hole size for the d ring pin and they could modify a bracket. has anyone towed a jeep with the bumper and not the base plate?

Mikeborny,
Folks have been towing Jeeps with aftermarket bumpers for decades. Most of the needed info you're looking for has already been explained. After towing 7, and soon to be 8, Jeep Wranglers all over this nation, WITH AFTERMARKET BUMPERS for thousands and thousands of miles, without ever having ONE WELD FAIL, I will keep on doing it.

Many of the aftermarket bumper builders use a standard D-Ring shackle tab welded on to the front bumper, on each side. Well, Blue Ox makes an adapter that adapts their tow bars, to those D-ring tabs. Yep, they run about $250 plus or minus but, while in my opinion, that's a serious rip off, it is a BOLT ON deal and, once on, you're done and, are towing down the road.

Once you're at your destination, the adapter brackets are removed with the tow bar and, the D-ring shackles, if you have them, are back on.
Scott