Winch / Bumper for 2021 F150?

[jeffcrum]

Rough Country makes an F150 hidden winch mount but they claim that it only works with v8. Apparently you can relocate the intercooler for the ecoboost with a special kit and make it work but I haven't found any tutorials yet.

I have emailed with Full Race. They have not tested their intercooler relocation kit on a PowerBoost yet.

This was in July. Still no word.

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[KartRacer25]

The ADD high mount intercooler kit is about $1,425
...wow you could've had a V8

https://www.addictivedesertdesigns.com/ford-f150-front-bumper-F191422860103

 

[AccentedWanderer]

https://www.warn.com/ascent-bumper-for-2021-ford-f150-107638

Swapped my WARNgrill guard order to this bumper.

It was in stock yesterday and now i heard it will need few more weeks. I personally do not mind waiting few extra weeks since it is pretty good looking.

It works with all WARN winches and seems to have cutout for sensors. However ACC might need to be relocated.

 

[AccentedWanderer]

Update.

Real life photo of my truck, here you go.

 

[Stage3Motorsports]

I see fab fours was mentioned I was going to say that most of theirs are currently available.

 

[PBXL]

Update.

Real life photo of my truck, here you go.

How difficult was the installation?

 

[AccentedWanderer]

How difficult was the installation?

4 Hours of labor. I had the dealer do it for me. You will get check engine light since it does not have ACC relocation if you choose to leave it unconnected. See my posts for more details.

 

[amschind]

My mechanic has been fighting with getting a FabFours bumper installed on my truck for about 2 months. While they are great and appear to be very high quality, they are NOT bolt on with regard to the ACC and collision sensor. The proximity sensors will attach easily in the rear, but the factory cables are not long enough in the front (the senors themselves easily epoxy onto the bumper). In my case, the brackets for the ACC and collision sensor were supplied by my mechanic and his TIG welder.

For winch mounting, I'm actually welding up a hitch mount for a WARN 3000ACI, which is an AC winch that can run off of the ProPower 7.2kW/240V circuit. This will only pull 3000 max, but I would use a pulley in any recovery. It is still on the low end, but has the advantage of being very well suited for long pulls as it is low amperage/high voltage from a generator vs low volts and VERY high amps from a starter battery. Wiring this up has been a challenge, as the electrician that I tired to hire flatly refused to help and suggested that I take it to a vehicle mechanic to have that person wire the ground to the truck's frame (which is insane, dangerous, and led me to refuse his offer to look around for any issues in my house that he could help with). Given how bad that was, my plan is to wire up solid state relays using a 12V corded switch so that I am only ever holding a remote with 12V going to it. If that works, I will post it.

 

[amschind]

Unless I got confused, I think I saw a YouTube with a guy's f250 Tremor that had a very OEM looking bumper with a winch set up. Anyone know if that can be installed on my 3.5L EB supercrew?

My uncle has that on his F250 Tremor, and you cannot tell that it has a winch unless you get close. The huge issue for EB owners is the intercooler location. The bigger issue for PB owners is that nobody even knows if their intercooler relocation kits will work, but most safely assume that they would not. My solution is a hitch mounted winch, but that runs into the issue that nobody makes a front bumper with a hitch mount.

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