Savvy bumper winch mount
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You don’t happen to have a photo from the top? Is that bolted through the bumper’s pre-drilled holes or is it moved rearward with additional holes drilled? Mine was scraping the triangular braces on each side and would have had to move backwards a few mm to clear, but there seemed to be no room to move it back because I still have the stock anti-sway bar.
We generally just put them where they work, tweak a few things and make it work. Gerald wasn't interested in making two versions of the bumper with holes for early and late winches, so we have to figure it out as we go.
Generally we just tweak the gusset around the end of the winch.
I thought of grinding those down a bit, but I thought even then there might be contact when the winch is under load. Plus I want a solution as close to bolt-on as possible, and I wasn’t in love with that exact winch anyway.
It is just saying, be careful or your hand gets eaten. Good warning to have.
I finally found some time to mount the M8 on the Jeep and I have a stupid question that I’m embarrassed to ask but since I have only a short time available to get this done I have to bite the bullet and risk eternal shame.
The savvy winch plate/fairlead mount cannot match up with the predrilled holes in the Savvy bumper because the winch runs into the stock sway bar. I was prepared for this; Gerald said in an email that I’ll have to move the mount forward and drill new holes. Fair enough, but do I need every hole in the winch mount to be bolted (8)? Or just the 4 that attach the winch? In other words, are the 4 outer holes needed or are the inner 4 enough?
The savvy winch plate/fairlead mount cannot match up with the predrilled holes in the Savvy bumper because the winch runs into the stock sway bar. I was prepared for this; Gerald said in an email that I’ll have to move the mount forward and drill new holes. Fair enough, but do I need every hole in the winch mount to be bolted (8)? Or just the 4 that attach the winch? In other words, are the 4 outer holes needed or are the inner 4 enough?
There is supposed to be the forward pattern for the winch holes and then you use those to locate the mount so you can drill the rest of the holes in the wings. The reason both patterns aren't drilled is they will show when the winch is mounted rearward and that is how most of them would be mounted.
So do the 4 bolts that anchor the winch need to go through the bumper as well as the mounting plate? Or just through the mounting plate alone and the 4 wing bolts suffice for anchoring the whole assembly to the bumper?
All eight go through the winch mount plate and bumper and you use eight nuts underneath.
I thought of that after I posted and got under the bumper to think it through.
Although…Maaaybe if they were flush mounted like @JMT ’s?
The flush mount is due to countersinking the winch plate with an 82* bit and the using 82* conical bolts. They still pass through both winch plate and bumper and have nuts on the bottom side
I usually do one side at a time and leave the farthest back bumper bolt on one side loosely attached. That way I can pivot the bumper out on one side to reach those bolts with nuts underneath. Then I pivot the bumper back on, put that bolt in loosely, and pivot the other side out so I can do the same for the opposite side nuts.
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