Just got a new synthetic winch, installed winch but were bolts are to install fairlead, they will hit winch if I line up, I can move fairlead over but then steel on one side is exposed, what could I do to fix this, looking for a creative fix, added a pic of my style bumper

 

Flip the bolts around? Shorter bolts?

 

I can't, winch is right up against bumper, cannot put bolts through if lined up right, need to move fairlead over which exposes one side

 

Can you take a closeup of what you are talking about?

 

What bumper is that. Looks good!

 

It is a rock hard fabs, not to be confused with rockhard. I will take a pic tomorrow to further explain

 

You mean there is absolutely zero space? What about some liquid nails?

 

Right, winch is touching where bolt would go through. What is a liquid nail?

 

We had that issue and installed two carriage bolts to hold the fairlead on. We have a Rugged Ridge XHD bumper and a Smittybilt XRC 8 comp winch. Not sure if this will work for you but it's worth a shot!

 

Not sure if this helps but here is the way the fairlead would need to be to get both bolts in, sorry for bad night pic