@Clice pics speak a thousand words mate but if i'm imagining correctly welding a shorter bar directly on to the bend super heating it as you do would probably allow you to put it back then chuck a bucket of water over it while still holding the bar . It's by the by now though we share that trait of seeing fault where nobody else can as you know .
Ufff, its dark Shayne. And it won't show on a photo.... Proving that only I can see it....
But tomorrow, I'll try to remember, just to please...
For now, as it's your thread and I won't be accused of jacking (will I?) the pic below is not my bumper but I can refer to it to explain, in more detail, because my description wasn't so good...
So, picture this. I was stationary, and the Matiz approached me from behind at about 60kph, out of control, and cut across my bows, glancing the pointy bit of the bumper where it points toward the back of my truck, where it sits under the front plastic arch.
With me?
The pointy bit entered the tin-foil of the Matiz and unzipped it, from the front edge of its door skin right the way along to the rear light cluster. The door skin tore right off and the rear panel simply opened up like the Titanic, I could see her coat on the back seat through the gash
This lifted the pointy bit, at the pointy end, by about 10mm.
So with tack welds, bits of metal tags, and some ropes and straps, I used a 4m length of heavy timber to bend the pointy bit back down again. Took a lot of heaving, even with so much leverage.
However, where the hoop tube meets the flat top of the bumper, there's a very slight kink left in the flat plate, the bit behind the hoop tube in the above photo.
Flat is flat, and it looks flat.
Kinked flat is not flat and it looks kinked.
End of.
And her insurance refused to buy me a new bumper, "because it wasn't OEM".
I said "if it had have been OEM, you'd spend €1,000 + on a new Toyota one".
"yes" they said.
"So give me €1,000 towards a new ARB".
"No".
"Why?"
"Cos it's not OEM"
Uffff.
Water under the bridge, or spilt milk, whatever...
The point I was making is that thick steel is hard to bend and even harder to straighten.
That's why I was happy that you didn't actually bend your lovely new bumper!
it worked anyway .
) was pulling down on the bumper and shifted it forward slightly . Today's investigation revealed the bracket has bent a little which oddly enough pleases me because it means my dodgy welding is stronger than 5 or 6mm steel and that the bumper would have held firm had the bolts through the chassis been in place . 
