Thank's for the welcome!

You bring up an interesting topic.

It wasn't actually a clearance issue that caused the bumper to be mounted like that.
Since the new bumper has a winch on it, when i made the custom mounts I tried to get it as centered and on the same plane with the frame as possible.

A setup Like the stock mounts would have put a downward rotational force on the front of the frame during winching, which I wanted to avoid.

Took the time to draw up a quick and dirty diagram to explain it better. Force is represented in blue, not to scale, may cause blindness in phytoplankton.
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The radiator fits between the bumper mounts behind the winch, and was installed after the bumper mounts were finalized, fabricated, and installed.

As a side note, I don't think it affects my ground clearance, the oil pan and swaybar are dictating that right now.

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