does anyone know if you can get a winch mount for a stock front bumper that will not require cutting the bumper

 

Rough Country makes one for ~$249 which I've been looking at about. That's getting close in price to to winch-mount replacement bumpers though.

 

most winch mounts are going to require some amount of cutting to the bumper or the mount to get it to fit.

 

I've never installed this, but looking at the installation instructions,

www.roughcountry.com/install/1173.pdf

it appears that you only have to cut anything if you don't have the factory tow hooks.

 

WARN makes a winch plate for the stock JK front bumper than doesn't involve any cutting. It's expensive though.

 

I was looking at the winch mount for that and have a couple of ???'s.
I just installed a Curtis front hitch and I believe it uses the same holes on the frame rails to mount the winch.
The hitch had about a 1/4 " play side to side inside the frame rails, I was thinking if the winch plate was a tight fit, I could shoehorn the plate and the hitch into the same holes. How was the fit of that plate?
Thanks.