My thanks and respect go out to Aaron K. for his amazing garage full of cool tools, including a milling machine, and his willingness to invite me down to shave material off a part so it would work with my newly installed ARB bumper.
Prior to my ARB bumper, my front recovery options consisted of a Bullet Proof Fabrication heavy duty recovery point, which replaced the OEM open hook. (https://www.bpfabricating.com/collections/tacoma/products/tacoma-recovery-tow-hook). After finding out that ARB is essentially no longer adding recovery points to their bumpers out of fears regarding liability (see https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/arb-bumper-question.69638/ if interested), I did not have a front recovery point. My options seemed to be ARB's solution http://store.arbusa.com/2005-On-Toyota-Tacoma-Recovery-Point-2823010-P22953C92.aspx for $260, or trying to find a spot for something bolt-on, like https://www.superiorengineering.com.au/heavy-duty-rear-tow-point-80-series-landcruiser-21652, which seems like a bad direction.
Enter Aaron, who invites me down to mill down a bit over 3/16" inch of material that interfered with the new bumper, and viola!, I'm back in business.
Opted to repaint the whole thing red, for no real reason.
Looks really good! But then I'm biased 😀
I need to find some better front points for my Frontier. The stock hook kinda sucks, but it's what I have...