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Old 05-08-2020, 10:17 AM #1
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Calling all True North Fabrication plate bumper and winch owners.

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Can you tell me what winch you have and if you have any problem accessing the free spool with your winch install. I have heard a few reports that some are not able to access free spool. My plate bumper is coming soon and I would like to know which winch you have installed. I am hoping to put a SmittyBilt X20 10,000lb with wireless remote in there. Thanks for any helps
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I have the very first version of their bumper and I have a Warn m8000 installed, which is the one they recommended.

I’m able to access the free spool fine, but overall I wouldn’t say it’s the most accessible design for a winch bumper. It’s kind of a pain really, getting the wires hooked up was tricky.

Can’t comment on the winch you’re looking at but the m8000 is pretty compact, which is probably why they recommended it




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I found a nice lightly used m8000 so I have that and the first design bumper that TNF made. It’s kinda a tight fit to get my hand on there. Not awful I make sure I wear a glove so I don’t scratch up my hand. Since it’s modeled after the m8000 take the measurements from Warn’s website and compare it to model’s you’re looking at and see what’s close
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well, prob not much help. I just got that smittybuilt (X20, 10k synthetic) but have not mounted it yet as my plans have changed a bit on bumper.
However. if you have not gotten the smittybilt I read through and it is clockable for the motor and the gear case too. Gear case was my main concern so I could rotate and make handle accessible depending on what bumper I get.
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For anyone else that is looking at putting a winch on their SRQ bumper hopefulky you find this useful. I have a SRQ/True North Fab open wing hybrid bumper. The internal height is about 8.1 inches. I did alot of research looking for all options that would fit the bumper, Come up, superwinch, smittybilt and a few others. the control box has to be relocated so the constraint on all these winches is the clutch lever. The only winches that I found to fit were from Warn, those being the M8000 and VR EVO 8/10/12. The zeon might fit but I am not 100% sure on that. I bought a VR EVO 10s Gen 3 and it will fit great. The clutch lever has room to rotate even though it will be an awkward reach through the front.
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For anyone else that is looking at putting a winch on their SRQ bumper hopefulky you find this useful. I have a SRQ/True North Fab open wing hybrid bumper. The internal height is about 8.1 inches. I did alot of research looking for all options that would fit the bumper, Come up, superwinch, smittybilt and a few others. the control box has to be relocated so the constraint on all these winches is the clutch lever. The only winches that I found to fit were from Warn, those being the M8000 and VR EVO 8/10/12. The zeon might fit but I am not 100% sure on that. I bought a VR EVO 10s Gen 3 and it will fit great. The clutch lever has room to rotate even though it will be an awkward reach through the front.
I too have the open wing hybrid and I'm using a Smittybilt XRC Gen 3 which BARELY fits, but fit it does. I had to clock the engagement lever backwards one "position" but if one was to perhaps use a much smaller lever as opposed to the super bulky one that it comes with I imagine you could get away with keeping it clocked as it comes. Having it backwards isn't bad whatsoever, and I can actually see how it might be easier to reach this way
That being said, I believe the 3rd gen XRC is one of the smallest winches SB makes and it fits with practically ZERO room to spare in any direction; at most I'm talking a centimeter or two on all sides. In my research I read a couple posts+talked to an individual that all claimed to use an X20 (which is slightly larger than my XRC) and they assured it would fit, but I just don't see how that is
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I too have the open wing hybrid and I'm using a Smittybilt XRC Gen 3 which BARELY fits, but fit it does. I had to clock the engagement lever backwards one "position" but if one was to perhaps use a much smaller lever as opposed to the super bulky one that it comes with I imagine you could get away with keeping it clocked as it comes. Having it backwards isn't bad whatsoever, and I can actually see how it might be easier to reach this way
That being said, I believe the 3rd gen XRC is one of the smallest winches SB makes and it fits with practically ZERO room to spare in any direction; at most I'm talking a centimeter or two on all sides. In my research I read a couple posts+talked to an individual that all claimed to use an X20 (which is slightly larger than my XRC) and they assured it would fit, but I just don't see how that is
That is good thinking on clocking the clutch lever backwards. Also great to hear it might be easier to reach in a backwards position. I was looking at getting the Comeup 9.5 and clocking it forward but the lever was going to hit the inside of the bumper.
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