I was planning on purchasing the ranch hand grill guard for an 06 f150 and then line-x ing the stock bumper so that i would still have the capabiliy to go through almost anything and not worry about messing up front bumper. think this will work??

 

There are several on this site who have line x'd the bumpers. Shouldn't be a problem at all and will wear like iron! Spike Strider even had his done red to match. Check out his pics.