The Winch That Stole Christmas

[W7NB]

Well, maybey it just stole a day of Christmas shopping

Here's how I spent 10 hours of my day with my K5 and some things from our friends at Warn.

First, off with the old. Man do I love 16 year old bumper bolts!

Next is minus the bumper, with all the factory brackets still attached.

All brackets off, ready for the bumper!

Bumper mounted and ready for the winch.

Tada! Warn 9000 lb winch and some utility lights join the show.

Tomorrow I'll be installing the new winch battery and assorted electrical work. By the way, anybody need a straight stock bumper

 

[Brians89K5]

Looks good man. Soon I want to put a winch on my truck.

~Brian

 

[yellowK20]

very nice looking rig!!

 

[burban89]

Looks great

 

[cbbr]

 

[franco802]

Well, maybey it just stole a day of Christmas shopping

Here's how I spent 10 hours of my day with my K5 and some things from our friends at Warn.

First, off with the old. Man do I love 16 year old bumper bolts!

Next is minus the bumper, with all the factory brackets still attached.

All brackets off, ready for the bumper!

Bumper mounted and ready for the winch.

Tada! Warn 9000 lb winch and some utility lights join the show.

Tomorrow I'll be installing the new winch battery and assorted electrical work. By the way, anybody need a straight stock bumper

That is bad ass!!! Where did you buy that bumper?? And how much??!!

 

[Chaddy]

Damn! that looks nice

 

[W7NB]

This will probably kill you - the bumper is a Warn Classic series that was designed for the old school 8274. I had to do some drilling and modify two brackets -but it cost me $100 and some polishing compound to clean it up

Got the winch on sale for $540 so with the oddball hardware and such total cost was $700 with the lights!

Now I won't get stuck for a month

 

[franco802]

This will probably kill you - the bumper is a Warn Classic series that was designed for the old school 8274. I had to do some drilling and modify two brackets -but it cost me $100 and some polishing compound to clean it up

Got the winch on sale for $540 so with the oddball hardware and such total cost was $700 with the lights!

Now I won't get stuck for a month

But where did you obtain that bumper? Is that something that Warn USE to sell? I can't find anything like that on their site!

 

[W7NB]

It was the classic series bumper that has been discontinued. See the middle of the page at www.gowarn.com/warn-mounting-systems-and-bumpers.asp