Rugged Ridge HD Stubby Front Bumper on Rubicon

[jnack]

Anyone with a rubicon install the Rugged Ridge HD Stubby front bumper?

I haven't tightened everything up yet, but noticed the passenger winch support bracket is rubbing against the rubber hanger for the sway bar disconnect.

The instructions from Rugged Ridge haven't been updated to reflect anything specific for JT, so I just followed the JL instructions but there is no mention of this situation.

Am I missing something here or will I have to end up modifying the support bracket? Thinking about using a spacer on winch plate with longer bolt and extending the hole on the frame side to push the whole bracket forward.

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[blau iii]

Did you ever figure this out? This bumper is high on my list. We’re you able to use the rubi skid plate?

 

[Tuggernuts]

Can’t you pivot the sway bar motor or whatever you call it? Admittedly I have a Mojave so I don’t have this part but I swear I’ve seen a video where someone did this.

 

[Unkle Luk]

I have this bumper on my rubicon, its close (~1mm of gap) but its not rubbing.

 

[jnack]

Did you ever figure this out? This bumper is high on my list. We’re you able to use the rubi skid plate?

i made it work with modification, not sure if mine was a quality issue but I had to cut off about 1/2" of the bumper on one side to make it work with the rubi skid and I had to figure out some washers and spacers for the winch bracket to not hit the sway bar disconnect

 

[Jackpaul]

Anyone with a rubicon install the Rugged Ridge HD Stubby front bumper?

I haven't tightened everything up yet, but noticed the passenger winch support bracket is rubbing against the rubber hanger for the sway bar disconnect.

The instructions from Rugged Ridge haven't been updated to reflect anything specific for JT, so I just followed the JL instructions but there is no mention of this situation.

Am I missing something here or will I have to end up modifying the support bracket? Thinking about using a spacer on winch plate with longer bolt and extending the hole on the frame side to push the whole bracket forward.

there’s been a lot of discussion about the passenger side winch plate bracket for the rugged ridge HD full width bumper on a JTR, not sure if I cracked the code or messed with the physics of the engineering but the passenger side JK bracket fits perfectly on the JTR, and gives a couple inches of clearance around the sway bar disconnect.

 

[OngsterA]

Just installed mine last week, yes very close against the rubber mount. But all it's needed is a couple of spacers on that right side bolt on your picture, plenty of clearance after that and my Warn mounted with no problems. In fact, with the spacers, the bracket ears lined up better when matched to the driver side bracket.

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