Nose Job - 1999 Ford Super Duty

Like all ARB bumpers, extra turning/parking lights are provided in the bumper face. These are spliced into the truck's existing lighting and provide an extra level of visibility to these all-important lights.

Once the bumper is aligned side to side, up and down, and back and forth to the front of the truck (via tightening the various mounting bolts in their eccentric holes), two more holes are required to be drilled to allow for "pinning." Pinning provides for a mounting bolt that is not holding eccentric holes together and thus should keep everything from shifting.

This nice metal air-deflection shield is provided to go under the bumper and replaces the factory rubber one that Ford provides. Our truck is an early production unit (Aug. '98) and has a power-steering cooler that is different from later trucks. It interfered with the ARB shield, and we had to cut about a 4x11-inch section from it for clearance (see inset).

This is the end result of our trimming to clear the power-steering cooler. Since our truck doesn't 'wheel, this setup works OK, but if brush and rocks are in the forecast, we'd recommend moving the cooler or replacing it with a newer one.

Killer lighting made affordable. HID lighting used to be only for the big-bucks Trophy Trucks and your neighborhood ballpark. IPF has worked to bring the price down, and these 900XS HID Xtreme Sports are the result. We installed both a driving (left) and a spot (right) onto our new bumper. The lights plug into a simple IPF harness after the H.I.D. amplifier ballast packs are remotely mounted near the lights.

We mounted our ballast packs in the space where the winch fairlead would go if we had a winch. The lights are mounted to the two mounting tabs provided on the bumper. Note how the cover plate looks when installed to hide the winch access holes.