Thanks. That looks damn good.

 

Yes, that looks great!

 

hey i have a brand new aries winch plate in my garage i will sell someone for 45.00$ it mounts to the frame then you just have to trim the top of bumper for the winch. there is a thread on here about them but i can`t find. the reason i didn`t use was i had ordered an olympic winch plate also and was told it was on backorder so i cancelled (so i thought) and ordered the aries they both came in the same day so i used the oylmpic one.

 

Check out this thread. It gives great detail on how to make a stubby out of your stock bumper and how to install the winch plate. Read to the bottom of page 1 and you will see an ebay item number for a winch plate made specifically for the JK. It's $99 plus shipping and does not require any drilling/cutting since it's made for the JK.

The stubby process is rather straight forward and easy; just remember not to cut off the integrated nuts that hold the plastic cover to the bumper (taping the outline took the longest due to the angles in the plastic; remember to tape straight and NOT follow the angles of the molded plastic).

I did mine (before buying a new bumper). The only thing I did different was NOT using the rivots. I simpy took a soldering torch with a chisel head and melted the plastic back together for a cleaner look (easier than the rivots too)!

Hope this helps. You can get the winch plate and make the simple mods without fabing a stubby if you prefer.

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/jk-write-ups-39/stock-bumper-mid-width-chop-job-winch-plate-76663/#post997320

 

my homemade stubby/winch mount

 

man you have to tell me how you did that!!! great great!

 

PM me your email and I will send you a Word document I made up with some of the details.

 

Nice job, I'm looking at trying that in the very near future.

 

Here is my setup. I went the TJ mount route. I have since swapped out the cable with rope.

 

My upright mount.
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