Haha yeah they aren’t cheap! But @Stage3Motorsports shaved a few dollars off it for me and knowing it gives a better recovery angle than the stock tow hook. That’s how I sold myself on it haha.
Thank You!!! I found the link.
Awesome! Let me know how you go with it or if you have questions on marrying them up!
Yeah - I don’t really need one for what I’m doing. I’ll let a mate spend his money on one and use it to pull me out if needed
I'd rather have a winch I seldom use than not have it when I need it!Yeah - I don’t really need one for what I’m doing. I’ll let a mate spend his money on one and use it to pull me out if needed
I'm getting ready to start mine this afternoon after work. Any tricks to getting the stock bumper off? After driving down the road did you notice the front end being squishy or nose diving from the extra weight?Was quite a project this weekend but got my ARB Summit Bumper and Warn Winch installed!
A couple of items of interest to whomever is contemplating this....
- It's Heavy! We used a transmission jack in the middle and Jack Stands on each end to get it up and in place. Transmission jack was a lifesaver. Once it was at the right height, we just lifted it right on and mounted it up.
- If you're going to put a winch on, I suggest doing it all in one setting so you don't have to remove the bumper to install your winch and then put it back on.
- Winch control box has to be relocated (Sits on top of the bumper on a winch plate as seen in photo)
- Make sure you either get the control box extension kit from your winch manufacturer or buy cable and lugs that you can build yourself You will need (on the Warn Evo 10s I installed) about 32" of cable for each of the three leads (Yellow, Blue, Green) from the control box to the winch
- Instructions were decent, not stellar but decent.
- Look at pictures of one installed so you can check it out during your own install
- Allow a weekend to get it done, unless you are a speed deamon
All in all, great install and I'm happy with it.
The front bumper actually comes off nicely. The truck handles awesome despite the extra weight, but I also have the Eibach protruck kit on my Ranger.
Thank you for the feed back. After an all weekend adventure, its on. Since mine is a tremor it has the fox suspension. Noticed it dropped the front about 1 1/2 inches. I'll look into the Eibach protuck kit.
It dropped 1.5" in the front!?!?!
measuring from the bottom of the recovery hook before and after I've seen a 1 1/2" drop with the addition of this bumper/winch combo due to its added weight.
Front bumper came off pretty nicely as well... Make sure you disconnect any wires from it. There are lots of zip ties hooked in to the bumper. As for putting it on, once we had the winch installed, we picked up a transmission jack from Harbor Freight. Used that along with Jack stands. My wife and I put it on the truck. Also, there are some holes that you will need to drill for two pin bolts after the main bolts are installed. A step bit and Angle drill were the trick on that.
