After an exhaustive search for an all black bull bar I finally found one. The installation should have taken nothing more than an hour but the cutting of the splash guard was really hard. In all it took me over 4 hours with the repositioning of the splash guard and cutting it to fit the brackets. The installation procedures come with a template but it only makes a cut for the area where the bolts for the bracket are. It does NOT cut into the area where the bracket sticks out beyond the splash guard.
Once the splash guard is cut and fitted, all it took was tightening six bolts for the bracket under the Ridgeline and four bolts to attach the bull bar to the brackets. The driver side of the bull bar was bent a little. I think this was done on purpose to be able to fit the bull bar without being flush against the bracket. After tightening the right side with the supplied bolts, that side was bent inwards and became flush against the bracket.
Next was the positioning of the bar. I eyeballed it and used a jack stand with a towel on top, so as not to scratch the paint, to hold the position while I tightened. It looks like I didn't center it too well since it is slightly drooping on the passenger side. This should be an easy fix of loosening the two bolts, positioning up a little, and tightening again.
I had a couple of auxiliary lights from the FJ brush guard that I bolted on there PRIOR to the installation.
Next will be the wiring up of the lights. Hopefully the Honda switch/button will work well and I will have a clean look. If not, I'll probably cut one of the covers and have the Tacoma switch on top of it.
