I am working on designing an OEM-style hidden winch mount for the 100 series. The plan is for the fairlead to sit just beneath the existing front license plate mounts. There are some quality options out there for hidden winch mounts, but I don't like how low they sit and I also don't like that a...
New in Box (never used) Hidden Winch Mount made by Trail Tailor. I will throw in a new Factor 55 fairlead as part of this. Just add winch!
$425.
Can ship at buyer expense.
Anyone have any Jeep friends who might be looking for one of these? It's not new, but it's never been mounted on truck. Probably only for the Warn 8274 variants (because of the vertical support fins.)
I used it as a work stand for my winch. I'd like to get $125 -- Warn is pretty proud of these...
Has anyone here tinkered with this winch plate? It is advertised as being able to fit inside of the stock bumper - just have to create a cutout for the fairlead. Looks like it is mostly used in Europe. This one on eBay ships out of Poland but I have seen the same setup on a couple of British sites.
I have a winch and plan to create a mounting plate. This center piece existed when I got the truck. The bumper is 5" wide -- 1/4" C channel.
The current center piece needs to go. The welds on the bumper side aren't intact -- the plate separated from the bumper.
Am I fine mimicking this setup...
Returning to the FJ ownership world after a long hiatus. Purchased an 73 FJ55 with my 16 year old and we are looking for Winch Extensions.
Open to buying a set or rent/borrow a set to fabricate my own.
Or if there are insights into how to mount a mount an M8247 without a set it would be...