Rough Country Hidden Winch Bumper - IMPROVED

[Soft Taco]

Quick facts...

• Extremely impressed
• Amazing price
• Impossible to access lever to engage/disengage spool (I have a solution I am working now, follow up video soon)
• Armor can stay on for oil change (follow up video soon)
• Warn Evo-10S fits
• Installed by myself

The video will answer a lot more...

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[gofastdan]

Good job, the video is great. I'll be interested to see how you access the spool lever.

It's obviously a much more expensive product but one thing I like about RCI's Pike bumper is that it comes with a support bracket that replaces the stock piece and gives you clearance to turn the handle w/o it hitting. I guess if you can remove the spool lever and turn it 90 degrees then maybe it's a moot point....

 

[Soft Taco]

I actually stayed up pretty late and got er done! The spool engage could not be easier now. I’ll film a quick video shortly.

 

[Soft Taco]

Here ya go! And how I change the oil without removing armor as well. I now love this setup.

 

[gofastdan]

Wow. The ingenuity of people never ceases to amaze me. Very well done!

I have the CBI Super Stock Covert on order and when I asked their support team if I could reach the free spool lever the response was, "no problem, just reach down from the top". To which my response was, "yeah, that's not going to happen with this truck". Their bumper actually has pretty large cutouts in the front so I'm hopeful I'll just be able to reach in and turn it but if not....I now know there are options!

 

[Soft Taco]

Wow. The ingenuity of people never ceases to amaze me. Very well done!

I have the CBI Super Stock Covert on order and when I asked their support team if I could reach the free spool lever the response was, "no problem, just reach down from the top". To which my response was, "yeah, that's not going to happen with this truck". Their bumper actually has pretty large cutouts in the front so I'm hopeful I'll just be able to reach in and turn it but if not....I now know there are options!

Yeah… I think there’s a lot of disconnect and unknown about these trucks still and short of the actual design team and engineers that make the bumpers, customer service won’t have much to offer us.

Thanks for the words! Good luck!

 

[Mjsimmons]

Wow. The ingenuity of people never ceases to amaze me. Very well done!

I have the CBI Super Stock Covert on order and when I asked their support team if I could reach the free spool lever the response was, "no problem, just reach down from the top". To which my response was, "yeah, that's not going to happen with this truck". Their bumper actually has pretty large cutouts in the front so I'm hopeful I'll just be able to reach in and turn it but if not....I now know there are options!

When you install the CBI bumper, please post some feedback. I have my eye on the same bumper. Thanks.

 

[gofastdan]

When you install the CBI bumper, please post some feedback. I have my eye on the same bumper. Thanks.

I'll certainly do a post with plenty of pictures. It's probably going to be a couple of months though. That's the downside w/the CBI products, the lead time. I ordered the last week of Nov and they quoted 10 weeks out for shipment, so I'm guessing I'll get it early to mid-Feb.

If I had it to do over again I'd take a hard look at the unit Ironman just released. It's closer to the CBI Covert than the Super Stock Covert that I ordered, but it looks good and ships next week...

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