How To Install The Lobo Off-Road WNC Front Winch Bumper | Ford Bronco

How to install our WNC Front Winch Bumper on a 2021+ Ford Bronco. Find out more at Lobooffroad.com. The WNC Front Bumper is designed to incorporate the High-N-Tight design ethos of our HNT series bumpers, but with accommodations for mounting a winch on/in the bumper while maintaining as much ground clearance and approach angle as possible. We’ve managed to shoehorn the workhorse Warn EVO Series 12,000 lb. winch within the envelope of the bumper shell. Compared to the HNT Bumper, the WNC bumper sticks out only an additional 1-7/8 inches in the front, while the underside lines tuck up sharply as they extend outward toward the bumper ends. This allows maximum clearance for tires to grab rocks and ledges to pull the Bronco up and over extreme obstacles. The bumper shell incorporates a fairlead mount and cutout on top to access to the winch’s clutch lever and drum. In addition to high clearance, we’ve worked to achieve the lightest weight and lowest center of gravity possible. We achieved that by using 1/8-inch thick plate steel for the bumper’s outer shell. This is thicker material than the factory Modular steel bumper, but lighter weight than most heavy aftermarket bumpers which are made of thicker plate. But we did provide the beef where it counts, as the bumper shell mounts over a beefy “Backbone” substructure, which is made of 3/16″ thick plate steel and ties together super-strong, triangulated Frame Mounts, a braced and gusseted Winch Mount Cradle, extreme duty reinforced Recovery Tabs and extra strengthening by tying in to the HNT Skid Plate system. The Backbone also incorporates Outrigger Braces for the bumper shell, strengthening it out to its narrow ends. The weight associated with this beefy under-structure is concentrated where it is needed, and absent where it would be a waste.