Recent content by Kach Vartan

For sale is the Ford Performance Winch mount, excluding the Warn Winch and the frame horn reinforcements. I never installed the winch mount and it is brand new (removed from the box for pictures). I bought the kit mainly to acquire the Warn winch and used the Maximus removable winch mount...

@popo_patty, watched your YouTube video and it was very informative. You mentioned that you had been in a Bronco that had the Adventure Tune and it was very smooth over cobblestone roads. Curious how you would compare the feel of that tune to the Hoss 2.0 Bilsteins. I’m trying to square your...

This was a couple of weekends ago. Spent a couple of nights at Campo Alto Campground in Los Padres National Forest. Really nice, high(ish) altitude campground that let us get away from the SoCal heat. Campsites are well spread out, so pretty good privacy. No offroading this time, but did...

(Yesterday) Lunch with the family at Cafe 247 in Lucerne Valley, followed by a run up Rattlesnake Canyon to Burns Canyon, then Broom Flats. Dinner in Big Bear than a relatively quick (for L.A.) drive home. Only one other person on the trail... very peaceful. Happy 4th!

Technically Sunday - hit some trails in the local Sierra Paloma mountains. Nice mix of forest, grasslands and desert.

Thanks, are you putting the shim in from the back side of the short piece, from the inside of the cargo area?

Hi, I'm looking into this solution, but it wasn't clear to me from the pictures where you install the shim. Can you point it out in one of the pictures you had posted?

I have this setup and like it. Might switch to Bartact bags some day, assuming they leave enough room to hold a “standard” size water bottle behind the bag.

Great info, will be looking into this too! Are you planning on “installing” the winch before you leave home, or put the whole kit in the cargo area and install at trail head?

First time in Anza Borrego. Just a day trip. Ran Canyon Sin Nombre, Diablo Dropoff, Fish Creek and Sandstone Canyon. Dinner in the charming little town of Julian on the way back. Too bad the pie shop was closed…but a great day nonetheless.

It definitely causes a visible sag, maybe 3/4 of an inch. I think any larger winch would do that unless you had heavy duty springs up front. Doesn’t bother me too much though as this is not a permanent mount.

It’s held up really well. I’ve been on a few tight trails where I was scraping dry brush and no long term pinstripes, so the self healing must be working. I do have one corner of the film on the rear passenger door that has peeled very slightly. I think more the installer’s fault than anything...

I’m using quick connect cables that I will leave disconnected until the winch is needed. The longer end I’ve left coiled up under the hood as there was plenty of space. Hopefully they hold up to the extreme heat environment. The shorter end I have to figure out a way to fix to the winch or the...

I didn’t want to permanently carry the winch for a variety of reasons (weight, suspension sag, aesthetics), but wanted something that was fairly stout. I think the Maximus mount checks both boxes, but haven’t really tested it yet. I would note that the Maximus mount, at least on my truck, has...

Installed Warn winch and Maximus mount. About 2 inches of sag on the front end with everything installed. More pictures in my build journal.