Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Sorry for the long post, but it's worth it! I think anyway?
Just found out what that big rubber flap is for, you know the one on the bottom of the bumper that everyone tucks up inside the frame.
It's a combination tool/butt saver. Yesterday I was trying to align the drooping smile (front bumper sag) got everything kind of loose and decided it would be easier to use a small flat bar to manuver the bumper with between the frame & mount . . . yes up where we tuck the rubber flap. Well anyway after I was all done and put all the tools away the bumper looked good. Tucked up the rubber flap. Took the family out to pick up the Thanksgiving day Turkey. Went to work this morning. Left work & went to the Doctors office (sore muscles on the left side stomach, thought it might be a kidney stone or ?) this morning, then since I was home picked up the wife & treated to lunch then finally back to work and home at the end of the day, about 100 miles total. Then after dinner I decided to remove some old crown molding. Blast couldn't find the flat bar
Looked all over the place, then I remembered using it working on the bumper
To the garage looked on top of the toolbox as god knows a flat bar doesn't get used on a car/truck at least too often. Couldn't find it Then in a fleeting memory, I thought, no I couldn't have
and if so was it still there
If it wasn't would I find it imbedded in something? So many bad places it could be Finally decided to stop torturing myself and look. I couldn't believe it was still just resting there nothing holding it between the bumper bracket and the frame I looked around the neighborhood to see if anyone caught me
got lucky.
Man talk about lucky, I think about all the things that could have happened and the least bad could have been loosing the flat bar, next it ending up in someones windshield. It gets worse after that I won't go there. And they say these trucks ride hard HA!
So, if anyone ever asks what the funny rubber flap under the bumper is we'll all know what to tell them "It's Joe Mc's Tool/Butt Saver"
Just found out what that big rubber flap is for, you know the one on the bottom of the bumper that everyone tucks up inside the frame.
It's a combination tool/butt saver. Yesterday I was trying to align the drooping smile (front bumper sag) got everything kind of loose and decided it would be easier to use a small flat bar to manuver the bumper with between the frame & mount . . . yes up where we tuck the rubber flap. Well anyway after I was all done and put all the tools away the bumper looked good. Tucked up the rubber flap. Took the family out to pick up the Thanksgiving day Turkey. Went to work this morning. Left work & went to the Doctors office (sore muscles on the left side stomach, thought it might be a kidney stone or ?) this morning, then since I was home picked up the wife & treated to lunch then finally back to work and home at the end of the day, about 100 miles total. Then after dinner I decided to remove some old crown molding. Blast couldn't find the flat bar
Looked all over the place, then I remembered using it working on the bumper To the garage looked on top of the toolbox as god knows a flat bar doesn't get used on a car/truck at least too often. Couldn't find it Then in a fleeting memory, I thought, no I couldn't have and if so was it still there If it wasn't would I find it imbedded in something? So many bad places it could be Finally decided to stop torturing myself and look. I couldn't believe it was still just resting there nothing holding it between the bumper bracket and the frame I looked around the neighborhood to see if anyone caught me got lucky. Man talk about lucky, I think about all the things that could have happened and the least bad could have been loosing the flat bar, next it ending up in someones windshield. It gets worse after that I won't go there. And they say these trucks ride hard HA!
So, if anyone ever asks what the funny rubber flap under the bumper is we'll all know what to tell them "It's Joe Mc's Tool/Butt Saver"
