Warn winch bumper and Warn light bar

[PARAGON]

So, I have done a few things to my truck recently and a couple of those were adding the new Warn light bar with some Piaa 520SMRs. I then ordered the Warn winch bumper and realized that Warn says the two were incompatible. This is because, in stock configuration when opening the hood, the light bar will hit the top of the winch bumper before slack is taken out of the hood straps.

Several others were going to do the same setup and I said that I thought I had a fix for it. Sorry guys, it just has been a high priority. This past weekend I scrounged up some scrap angle iron at the ranch and "fabricated" something that I had hoped would do the trick. The pic below shows that the spring at the top of the strap is replaced with the angle iron with 2 holes drilled in it. It's not very pretty since I didn't take my time to do it right but it works. I might even go ahead and paint these 2 pieces up and use them for now.

Here is the first pic: