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Mopar Off-Road Bumper with XRC-8 Winch

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Old 04-11-2009, 04:19 AM
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Default Mopar Off-Road Bumper with XRC-8 Winch

Just installed the Mopar off-road bumper with and a Smittybuilt XRC-8 Comp winch. The winch came with the synthetic line. Total cost for everything was $950, and took around 4 hours to install.

For reference, I have a 2.5" Rough Country BB. The only thing I'm not happy with is that my rake is now even worse. I'm considering adding a leveling space up front, but since I'm already at 2.5", I'm not sure if I can without having to mod my driveshaft.





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thats a great looking setup. To me the rake looks about right in the pic.
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Originally Posted by Rhino64
thats a great looking setup. To me the rake looks about right in the pic.
Thanks. I chose this setup because I like the clean look, and how well the winch set into the bumper.
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How much difference (lower) is the front? Mine is 1", I think that is about right.
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It's a little over an inch. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought.
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looks great, you can add a 3/4 spacer with now DV mods needed
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just wondering i have the same synthetic winch line how did you get the hook on there? did you un strand the line and hook in through then re strand it again i know there was a way to do it just not sure how
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first of all, looks great!-second-you'll be fine adding the spacer, all you'll be doing is reclaiming the lost inches you already had with the b.b.-no additional. If by chance you gain a 1/4 or so, there's no dr.shaft probs at all-measure how much "loss" there was by adding the mods, and get the appropriate spacer, ie., 3/4 or 1 in., etc...
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Originally Posted by Offroadme
just wondering i have the same synthetic winch line how did you get the hook on there? did you un strand the line and hook in through then re strand it again i know there was a way to do it just not sure how
It actually came with the hook already attached...
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Looks great. I think the rake looks good also. but i have heard you can install another spacer up front with no problems.


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