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Ambrose Little says:

Hi Damon, thanks a bunch. Your video and tips helped, especially to beware of the unexpected challenges. A few notes. I found that keeping all the bumper bolts loose, pulling the bumper out a bit, and threading the inner ones on worked—there was enough room that way to get them by the winch. It is still a SUPER tight fit. I bought a battery power ratchet in anticipation after you mentioned how much of a PITA it was. That made it go a lot faster, though it was tough squeezing in there. Used extensions of different sizes. Also ended with torque wrench so would be spec (66 ft lb). The skid plate was as you mentioned a challenge. I left the brackets loose and banged on them down/toward the front, then tightened. That seemed to get ‘em close enough so I didn’t have to drill. I spooled the winch after putting it in the plate; gave me something to provide a little tension with. I also managed to get the winch nuts in after placing it, so I didn’t have troubles losing them. Anyhow, still a longish project for me, but your vid helped prepare me, so thanks again!

schoocg says:

Success and it wouldn’t have been so without your vid and other tips you typed below. Your points of NOT tightening the 8 bumper bolts until you have threaded the 4 inside bumper bolts first and also re-attaching the 2 screw/bolts at the end of the skid plate before all 8 bumper bolts are torqued down . Without those tips things will not go together as the instructions say. They need to add those two critical points. Thank you for these critical points!!!! And once installed, wow, what a great fit and look. And for anyone else reading these comments 5/6/18, as far as I can tell as of this date only WARN is making a bracket to fit the Zeon to the factory JL steel bumper. Last week I could not find any WARN brackets, everyone was sold out. Quadratec swore they had a Rusty’s bracket that would work. Well it does NOT. Yes it fits the new JL steel bumper but not for the Zeon winch. I called Rusty’s and they confirmed to me it would not work. Great, got experience taking the bumper off and back on:-) I finally found a WARN bracket for the Zeon to fit the JL from NorthRidge4x4 and they sent additional online installation instructions with great picts. Also, they mention not putting on the fair lead till last. Hmm, I found that not to be a good idea. Putting on before installing the bumper a much better deal. Don’t understand why they recommended that. Besides an amazing fit and look it is going to be one extremely difficult winch to steal..the thieves better be well prepared and tooled, and lots of time trying to figure how to take it all apart. You can’t lift it straight out of the bumper.

erlegree says:

FYI
That exact same bumper was available on the JK Rubicon.

schoocg says:

Thanks for the great tips.

owadog says:

Awesome! Thanks for sharing, I was just looking for a video on this. I can’t wait to do this myself.

I like the fact there’s no drilling the bumper at all. I have the same steel bumper and I was wondering if I would have to do any drilling. I’m also glad there’s a license plate adapter/holder as well.

Art Geo says:

Hey Damon were you able to get the 4 inner flange nuts on? I had the same problem and it could be done, it just takes time. The Zeon 10s has to be on there loose. you need to push it to one side. Then slightly tilt your bumper up and start the inner top flange nut. The flange nut has to be in front of the winch. You'll need a short socket to start and a swivel or flex drive. Let me know how it turns out. . . .

LynnB Burkhart says:

Well, after seeing your videos I bought the same color rubicon you did. Now, here I was looking for a winch and bingo – here’s your winch video!