I have the same On my Arcus Bumper its worth the money. Very good quality and works great.This is how high the one from Cascadia designs flips up. Itās never been in the way of winching. Old picture, as lots of other things on my rig have changed since, but this hasnāt
It looks good, but Iād catch it on something the first time on a trail. I think it would need to be removed. Nice that it was included though. Thatās cool.The winch mounting kit I used had a plate that sits just behind the fair lead that allows the license plate to be attached via 2 bolts. Sorry for the blurry pic.
I agree. I remove it before wheeling and, so far, have not forgotten to reinstall. The fact that about 20% of my neighbors are county cops helps to motivate me to remember to reinstall!
Sometimes I miss very obvious stuff, stuff right in front of my face, or stuff I should know about already and just space it off......... but I'm very curious as to how you keep from cutting up your rope against that steel plate not running a fairlead at all....Finished my install this past weekend and bought this license plate holder off amazon. Only been on a couple of days, but so far, so good.
License plate holder
That might be okay for storing it like in the photo, but you'll really want a fairlead when you actually use the winch itself. You'll be pulling a lot of force at an angle, and you don't want to introduce any edges or resistance points like you've got there during that process. You don't want the opening to be the guide, that will likely lead to damage or failure. This is why fairleads are a thing, low resistance friction-free guiding to the spool.
I'm liking that plate holder as well! inexpensive but does the job. From the pics it will fit a hawse fairlead behind the licence plate so that's how i'll do it. As long as the opening in the fairlead is smaller than any of the other metal, it'll pass through with no issues.
Yeah, that's where I was going with it. I don't see a fairlead, just that steel plate.Wait, does GetnlostnCo have a fairlead behind that bumper or is that just the plate he talked about sanding down if so , MATTHEW YOU NEED A FAIRLEAD!! Looks sort of like this perhaps inch thick radius edge to let line slide easily over it, has to be highly polished. donāt use your winch that wayā¦..Jack
You see those two open holes at the bottom of your bumper? The Amazon license plate frame a few posts above fits those holes perfectly. Thatās where I have mine, and I just fold it up under the bumper while off road.
