Can you utilize factory bumper for a winch?
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Recovery Vehicle
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Can you utilize factory bumper for a winch?
I would like to add a winch using the factory bumper. Does anyone make a mounting kit that utilizes the factory bumper? Has this been done before? I can fab up my own mounting hardware just dont want to reinvent the wheel here if its commercially available or if some one has done this before and has plans. Anyone see any inherit problems with this approach vs using an after market bumper?
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I found this page doing a google search. This is kind of what i was thinking.
Hidden Winch Mount for Discovery
Hidden Winch Mount for Discovery
Mudding
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When i get one I was going to follow this
http://www.discovery2.co.uk/winch.html
There are disadvantages to this related to mounting it so low. You'll be dragging it through more water/mud than if you had it mounted it at bumper level. Also, if you get stuck in deep stuff you may have to dig out the front area to access it; you can sort of get around this by pulling some lead out and fastening the clip to a higher area on the car.
http://www.discovery2.co.uk/winch.html
There are disadvantages to this related to mounting it so low. You'll be dragging it through more water/mud than if you had it mounted it at bumper level. Also, if you get stuck in deep stuff you may have to dig out the front area to access it; you can sort of get around this by pulling some lead out and fastening the clip to a higher area on the car.
Last edited by BrandonS; Dec 20, 2012 at 06:16 PM.
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The impact sensors are mounted on the frame of the truck, but there are crush cans between the bumper and the frame. The winch mount goes to the frame behind the cans so that they can still function as they are supposed to, which is to allow for more time between impact with an object and the transmission of the into the frame/passenger compartment of the vehicle. This additonal fraction of a second allows the airbags to fully inflate before the passengers are in motion.
