You are missing a spacer.
You see that bolt in the hood bracket that lines up with the hole in the brush guard bracket?? Well, there is a black donut shaped spacer (about 1" thick) that goes between the brush guard backet and the hood bracket.
You would remove that bolt and then place it through brush guard bracket hole, through spacer and back into hood cross bracket.
I hope I explained this right...
They help support the brush guard if anything was to to push against it. If your guard is mostly for show purposes ...I'd say it's no big deal...just don't lean anything too hard against the upper part of the guard of it may flex a bit and hit your hood.
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