Ran into a hiccup while installing the stinger. I had the bumper and stinger mounted with the eight hex bolts snug. Then I drilled the top rear outside bolt holes for the stinger. Then I installed those bolts to clamp down the stinger to the top of the bumper. I then proceeded to drill the remaining 4 bolt holes. The two in the passenger side went with ease, or so I thought. Then I proceeded to drill the inner rear pilot hole on the drivers side, the drill bit broke, tried to reverse it through the bottom with pliers and broke the bottom as well. Tried drilling it with a slightly bigger bit but the drill bit in the bumper is too hard. I'll get a punch tomorrow to try to punch it out.
(Need advice here.) So then I decided to move to the front outside hole. Drilled the pilot hole just fine, then I moved up to the 3/8" bit and when I went through the top I hit another piece of metal! So then I went to check the front hole on the passenger side and I barely missed it. The problem I have now is that the nut won't go over the bolt because that bottom piece of metal is in the way. Has anyone else ran into this issue?
Pictures:
The top right hole has the broken bit in it, the bottom left hole has the second piece of metal beneath it.
This is a closeup of the hole with the piece of metal beneath it
You can barely see it though. Any suggestions?