Help westin brush guard

[hardisky2]

Recently I picked up a westin brush guard for the front of my 05 trailblazer for free from a Craigslist ad the problem I have is it has no mounting brackets and when I contacted westin they told me it's over three years old and they discontinued that version does any one have one that they could take a pic of the hardware and where it mounts or have a mounting kit laying around

[TBYODA]

This may help http://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Accesso ... estin.aspx

However you do know that grill guards attached to the radiator mounting brackets and this style kills the frontal approach angle and if you hit something chances are you will push back the the radiator into the fan. Then you are SOL!

[ErikSS]

Cut. Weld.

[bartonmd]

Actually... I do have a mounting kit laying around... let me see if I can find it when I get home tomorrow. It was from one that somebody bought and drop shipped to me to cut up and weld to their bumper that I made. I never even opened the mounting kit. Let me look a bit when I get home.

Mike

[Diacom]

May be from the one I sent you Mike. I would think they are similar enough he should be able to use it. Hope it works.

[bartonmd]

May be from the one I sent you Mike. I would think they are similar enough he should be able to use it. Hope it works.

I think you sent me an off brand cheap one to hack up? This is from a new westin one that got drop shipped to me from... I think it was the one that the guy wanted a stinger sticking out of the middle of it, that rolled his TB in the ice?

Mike

[ErikSS]

Do you intend to offroad your trailblazer at all?

[bartonmd]

Boom. All brackets and hardware. I just opened the box a few minutes ago.

Shoot me a PM.

[Diacom]

May be from the one I sent you Mike. I would think they are similar enough he should be able to use it. Hope it works.

I think you sent me an off brand cheap one to hack up? This is from a new westin one that got drop shipped to me from... I think it was the one that the guy wanted a stinger sticking out of the middle of it, that rolled his TB in the ice?

Mike

Yes, mine was the off-brand, not Westin.

Cool you found em. Might compare if you still have the mounting hardware from the one I sent, see if they are similar incase someone else asks.

[bartonmd]

I'm honestly not sure where the brackets that came with yours are... Likely in another similar box, but who knows.

Mike

[v7guy]

I'm honestly not sure where the brackets that came with yours are... Likely in another similar box, but who knows.

Mike

At least I'm not the only one with boxes of unused parts that don't belong to anything I'm using lol

[Shdwdrgn]

if you hit something chances are you will push back the the radiator into the fan. Then you are SOL!

Confirmed from experience. I started with a WAAG brush guard, which mounts through the tow-hook holes. Was coming home in a blizzard, hit a pile of snow some idiot had plowed out into the middle of the road and got thrown to the shoulder where my WAAG caught a small tree and spun me around. Tore out the tree, pulled the brush guard 6 inches to the right, and rotated the radiator mounts far enough to set the fan firmly into the radiator (but didn't actually damage anything). Once I got home I was able to twist the mounts back into place. The funny thing was that the fan being stopped set a code which did not light up the CEL, but nearly a year later I saw the code and had to chase down what it meant.

Unfortunately, there's not many choices where to bolt the brush guard. Just get a steel bumper built and bolt a modified brush guard directly to it, problem solved!