has toyota ever made their own brush guards for 4runners? i have been looking into getting one and i am not ready to drop 750(after tax and s&p) on a WAAG

 

if so where could i get one

 

could always check the clasifieds religiously...
they come up every now and again...

but then again, why would you want a one time use piece of aluminum ?

 

to mount a winch and some hellas

i could get a mounting rak for the hellas on the roof rak but i am already missing the top 2 bars they were stolen so i dont want anything else up there

 

You need a winch specific bumper to mount a winch not a brush guard...

 

Mucho bueno x2, i cant remember where but theres a vid floating around of a guy whose bumper got ripped off by a push bar mounted winch

 

i have seen them sit on the top cross member a buddy of mine has one on his z71s push bar and it pulled me out of a mud whole (bottomed out 2/3 of the way throu)

 

did he just turn the winch on or did he hook up lock the cable and try to pull some1 out

 

They make winch bumpers that look like brush guards but it has to have a winch mounting plate on it...you can't take a regular brush guard and put a winch on it.

Check out marlincrawler.com or allpro.com or any of the rock crawling companies and you can pick up a badass winch bumper for like $400

 

You have to order one from overseas or Across the border. they came factory on the 90-95 4runner/surf and hilux. either from the UK, Canada or Japan. there are two kinds, the full bush bar or just a bull bar or "A" bar. the "A" bar has TOYOTA on the front and holes for fog lights where as the full bush bar has HILUX and TOYOTA on the front with holes for the factory fog lights.

 

Look at my advatar, i have a brush guard from when i bought it.

It says toyota on it. in a little section on the main bar.

I hate it. Its stupid, the PO, took the tow hooks off to put it on.

It moves, its not sturdy, i hate it. The only thing that holds it on is a whopping 4 bolts

There is NO WAY you could used a winch on it, it flexes when you pull on it.

 

The only Winch capable TOYOTA bumpers where the LC and the Blizzard/daihatsu Rocky. they all had PTO winch's.