sounds like you had some issues.I installed the XRC this past weekend. I like the looks of this bumper but beware it is just not sized to fit Warn winches. I tried to pair it with a Warn Zeon 10s. The bumper its self was a pretty easy install but fitting the winch in the bumper took about 4 hours. where the winch mounts you have to cut the upper+inner corners off of both frame rails. This bumper only mounts with the other 3 holes anyway. Install tip, use a pneumatic die grinder because you will overheat your dremmel before the first cut is made.
Once you hack up your new $50,000+ jeep's frame you will find that the bumper also needs to be cut before the winch can line up with the mounting holes in the bumper. Once you finish grinding your new bumper and the winch is in you will come to the realization that if you need to ever replace your headlight bulbs you will have to completely remove the winch from the vehicle. To replace headlight bulbs you have to take off the grill and the winch is right against it.
Final thoughts are I like the bumper's looks and the winch does fit after A LOT of work, The construction is very strong and it checked off all of my must-haves: 1. winch sits between the frame rails for airflow and looks, 2. uses factory fog lights, 3. has a manly bull bar, 4. has a skid for the electric sway bar disconnect.
With the extra weight of the bumper and winch over the factory plastic bumper it sits right about 3/4 of an inch lower at the axle than it did before. If you are wondering the factory plastic bumper weighs 32 pounds.
Here are the pictures
Both corners have finish damage. Strange thing is the box was perfect, this tells me it was packed that way.
Here is where i had to grind the bumper to make it fit
The other side technically fit but it is right against the steel of the bumper so a winch cover cannot fit to protect the expensive rope.
Hi Monge. Your jeep looks great.I like the Smittybilt XRC Gen2 77807 front bumper (have the S/B77858 rear bumper as well) but you can not reuse the factory LED fog lights. The factory halogen fog light housings fit perfecting as well as the halogen harness. I am researching LED bulb options as I do not wish to splice any wiring. Also, I mounted this bumper on my Rubicon Unlimited with the RC suspension lift and even with the Smittybilt XRC 12K winch, I'm not noticing any sag.
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Thanks! Frosty has been fun to build and add-on to! The fogs are the black series fog light cubes from Inspired Engineering... The mounting brackets came with the bumper. Easy to install... Using the existing wiring harness with adapters...no cutting or splicing! Enjoy!
Ya but what size are they? how did the attach to the bumper bracket? Did they come with any mounting hardware like a surface mount that worked with the bumper hardware? I would prefer to go with the Ridgid Industries that I have on order. The ridgids are 3"x3".
Smittybilt includes the square frame and the securing bracket. Those fogs look like they are the same size so no problems. Just make sure they have the wire harness plug adapters so no cutting/splicing...
Is the securing bracket the circle one? I'm just concerned that the circle that smittybilt provides isnt 3"x3" and a surface mount on the pod isnt the correct type.
An S4 type fog light is what it calls for. My IE Black Series did not specify they were S4 yet they fit perfectly. Your best bet is to call Smittybilt support to be 100% sure. That’s what I would do.
