It say on the rack 80lbs evenly distributed.   I guess that should handle it.  I am still looking at taking the bumper covers off,  would that look too ghetto?

The rear doesn't look bad at all.  Here's mine:


I've also ripped off the front bumper cover but don't have pictures of that yet.  Look around, there are some guys on the forums running without them.  I think with some cleaning up (there's gotta be 20lbs of dried mud in my rear bumper, if not more), trimming off of unnecessary fittings and metal bits, and painting these bumpers don't look half bad at all.

(there's gotta be 20lbs of dried mud in my rear bumper, if not more),

Bad design for that. When I took mine off it had a good 20 pounds of fine Oklahoma dust packed into it. Another spot that held it was the bottom rear section of the front fenders. 5 pounds in each one of those. Just imagine what a pile of salt could do in there. 

Quote from: AJMBLAZER on January 06, 2006, 02:27:41 PM

(there's gotta be 20lbs of dried mud in my rear bumper, if not more),

Bad design for that. When I took mine off it had a good 20 pounds of fine Oklahoma dust packed into it. Another spot that held it was the bottom rear section of the front fenders. 5 pounds in each one of those. Just imagine what a pile of salt could do in there. 

Want pictures?  I can show you. ;D  Mine's not horrible but it is a bit...crusty down there.  5 pounds of crap came out of mine.  Whole leaves and twigs were in each side.  WTF was the idea with those plastic rocker covers anyways?  My cab corners are solid by the rear tail lights but the worst rust is in the rockers where they mounted...all the salt got in there and just sat.  Moronic designers...

My last Tracker was worse...but then my buddy who I bought it from did beat it like a redheaded step child when he owned it...including floating it down a river...