Swaybar Motor Flip w/ Motobilt Crusher Bumper?

[OversandJL]

Has anyone done the swaybar motor flip with the Motobilt Crusher Bumper?

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[RubiSc0tt]

I did, kinda. I tried but the problem I had was my winch and bumper (Motobilt Crusher w/ Bull bar and Warn VR-10) were already installed and it was the night before the work week before the off roading trip the following Weekend- so I wasn't taking that MF off. That caused a slight alignment issue with the bolt- so as I was turning the factory bolt, trying to thread it into the housing, the threads got bored out. It worked, but I ended up having to swap out the factory bolt to a slightly thinner bolt, with a sleeve, and a washer/ nylock nut on the end. I put that through the swaybar housing and bolted it down tight. There is a little play, but not much- which is fine, because the housing rotates and it doesn't really affect the function of the swaybar-the bolt has no real function other than to keep the housing in place.

I followed the same basic tutorial as the JK version, but IIRC Instead of rotating it forward, I had to flip it backward until it kinda lined up, then just bolted it down. There is a useless (as far as i can tell?) nub on the housing that won't clear the winch mounting plate- however, if you rotate it the other way, you're 90% to lining up the bolt you need and if you get a bolt with a thinner shaft, you can make it work. Keep in mind, you're going to be blindly bolting through the frame and finagling a wrench into a real difficult position.

That was over a year ago now, I haven't had any issues since. Let me know if you've got any questions.