Westin Fey Surestep Rear Bumper - Chrome Plated Steel

Video Transcript for Westin Surestep Rear Bumper Review

We'll be taking a look at and installing the Western Face Sure Step rear bumper. This will be part number 21002. We will also be using the custom installation kit, part number 92230. This sturdy steal replacement bumper, has a non-slip pad along the top, to add a sure grip for getting in and out of your truck bed. The built in hitch holes, that offer three different mounting locations, and an 8,000 lb towing capacity, with a 800 lb tongue weight rating. The hitch ball hole diameter, is going to be about one inch.

Just add a hitch ball, which will be sold separately, and you're ready to tow. The chrome plating is going to add style and resist rust, while adding utility and a rugged good look to your vehicle. License plate lights, wire into your running lights, that are already in your vehicle. On this particular vehicle the customer wants to get a step back on the back side of the vehicle and get rid of the blazer bumper, that he had put on from the after market accessories. Another reason, is that it is bent and those brackets are out of whack here on the back side. We're going to take off the brackets and remove the rear bumper, and put new brackets and hardware in place, along with our new bumper.

We're going to need to remove these two bolts, securing the back bumper bracket. We'll lube them up, a little spray lubricant on the other side to help them come out. We'll go ahead and get a strap and secure our bumper. That way if it does decide to fall off on it's own, it isn't going to go too far under it's own weight. Go ahead and hold the bumper while we tap out the bolts on each side. Once you have the bumper bolts removed, we can go ahead and lower down the bumper.

Now we're going to go ahead and place our bracket on. Our left side, or drivers side bracket, is going to read "223" and then "left". We're going to place it in the second hole here, with our half inch bolt and flat washer coming from the outside. Then in the big groove here, the same way. On the back side we'll add our lock washer and our nut.

We'll go ahead and put on our passenger side. Now with our outer brackets in place, we're ready to put our bumper up. We'll get an extra set of hands to help hold it up, so you can put in the hardware. Those bolts going through that outer bracket, is going to be the same as what we used in the frame, with that flat washer and bolt, and a lock washer and nut on the back side. We're just going to use a pole standing under the back side of the bumper to hold it level, but we tightened everything down. We can always use a level too, on the back side, making sure that we're going to be straight up and down. With our bumper nice and level, we'll go ahead and tighten down our brackets. Start with the ones on the frame. Make sure we're still level. We can go ahead and tighten down the ones securing our bumper to our brackets. We can go ahead and torque it down to manufacturer specifications. We can go ahead and put our license plate lights into place. Notice the shape here, this is going to match up with the shape on the side of the bumper. Place it in. Take our clip from the back side and clip it in. Now I'll take our two light bulb holders, place our light bulbs in, press down firmly, take them and plug them into the back, and then we can wire them up. When placing it in you'll see the prongs on the side, will match up to the cut outs on the inside of the lens. Press it in and twist. It'll be locked in then. On this vehicle it does have quite a mess of wires going on. We did check our wires with our tail light. Our tail lights are going to be running on that brown wire coming off of the four pole. We're going to do a quick splice into that, for our power going to our license plate lights. Then our negative will be the ground coming off our four pole as well. We're running our wires back to connect to our power and ground coming off of our four pole. We'll take those quick splice connectors provided in the kit, and connect them on. Then we'll crimp it down and then close the cover. Taping it off will also ensure that we don't get any dirt, debris, or water inside of our connections. We'll take our wires and secure them up to the existing wire loom here on the back of the vehicle. Another great feature about this is it's going to come with a mount to mount up your license plate. Simply press them in. We can take our provided screws and screw in our license plate. Lets go ahead and turn on our head lights so we ensure our license plate lights are on. That will do it for our review and installation of the Western Face Sure Step Rear Bumper, part number 21002. You can find this and everything else right here etrailer.com. What's up man.