Bumper "Side" Clarification

[Kevin Sevcik]

Before anyone suggests it, no, tilting/turning those short bits of frame on either side of the U cut-out won't help. It will create a new shorter side right where the cut-out is. The two corners of that new side will need 8" of bumper as well, further covering up the U cut-out.

[GaryVoshol]

The picture from the manual that was posted with a gap in the frame does NOT have 5 sides. It has 4 sides. A side goes from corner to corner, not from corner to gap.

[WBCSaint]

So does the 8" of bumper have to be continuous? Or if you had a 4.5" section of bumper, then you use the Rhino bumper kit to have the rest of the 3.5" of bumper raised, would that still count as your 8" of bumper coverage?