Hey guys if you remember not too long ago I put a front bumper winch mount on
the front of our maverick trail that was a warn bumper and at that time Warn
wasn't making it yet and they still aren't making it yet it's not in
production I don't have an MSRP on it and a lot of people were asking me hey
you know I really want to get a front bumper on the front of my maverick trail
or my maverick sport because it's the same chassis it'll take the same bumper
front and rear the only thing is the trails a 50" wide machine and the
sports a 60" wide machine so today we are going to take a look at the EMP
extreme metal products front bumper this bumper retails for around 250 bucks and
it takes about an hour to put in and it really isn't much hardware to it at all
and then we're also going to put a warn winch on this so we'll see how it looks
once we get it all done and we'll compare the warn next to the EMP and see
which one maybe covers the best does the best job easiest installation and once
we get MSRP from Warn we'll be able to really compare head-to-head price and
everything so right now we're gonna jump right into it and mount up our EMP
bumper on our maverick sport. one thing you'll notice there's not a lot of
hardware with the EMP front bumper so it really shouldn't take that long to
install. Here's the front of our maverick sport without the bumper before we get
this thing kicked off and the nice thing about the EMP bumper is once you put the
bumper on if you wanted to you could still mount a winch down below alright
before we get started here you can take a look at the instructions there's
really not a lot to it I mean there's some pictures showing how it goes on and
they're showing mount the winch before you even put the bumper on so
once you get your mounting plate on here then you'll mount your winch on your
bumper and you should be good to go it just makes it easier to mount it up like
that
start snugging it up, I'm gonna go ahead and before I put the winch and the
mounting plate on here I'm gonna put the fairlead on because I
remember when I did my maverick Trail I didn't have a lot of room once I put the
mounting plate on to put the fairlead on so I'm assuming this is probably gonna
be the same way so I'm gonna go ahead and mount it up anyhow so that way it's
already on there when I put the winch on there and another thing you gotta remember
is the warn AXON or the VXR do not come with a mounting plate anymore a lot
of the machines have like a mounting plate hole in the front where you can go
ahead and mount them right up so the mounting plate was really not being used
by a lot of people so Warn just did away with it so if you need one of these
you're gonna have to order it. you can see once I put my fairlead on here my
mounting plate that The fairlead actually the nuts actually hit the AXON
winch so there's not enough room to get the mounting plate on there perfect see
that right there so we're just a little bit off so what I
did on my maverick trail was I bent this out just a little bit to get enough
clearance between the mounting plate and the AXON so my nuts could clear
it and the bolt holes would line up so I mean you could drill this out but
there's not a whole lot of space right here on your plate to really drill so
I'm gonna go ahead and just bend out the fairlead a little bit to get this space
I need right there to get my bolt holes to line up all right so now that I tweaked
the front of this plate just a little bit so that we had enough room to get
our bolt holes to line up you can see how they line up now there gonna
fit on there just right. Alright guys after trying a few different winches I
found out that I can't put any of the AXONS on not even a 45 RC so I had to go
with the VXR 35 S winch on here and this seems to be bolting up pretty
good. Well we got the bumper on and all buttoned up we got the warm VXR 35 S
winch on here there's one more thing left to do yet, we're gonna put this
cover plate on here, EMP sends that to you so it
just looks a little bit better cosmetically than having a big hole
there for the fairlead. There we go we're all done, now let's sit her beside the
Warn bumper and see how it looks. Alright guys here we go this is it it's all done.
We got the EMP bumper here I ended up having to put the Warn VXR 35 S winch on
here and it's pretty tight right here on this post I actually trimmed off some of
the negative post to get it to fit I was hoping to put the AXON 45 RC on here
but it just didn't fit so I had to go with that but overall I mean the EMP
bumper is pretty good looking bumper pretty solid it comes all the way out
here with protection it's $250 and this is the Warn bumper. I don't have an MSRP
on that yet and they're gonna start production on it probably sometime
around January 2019 but you'll notice that the Warn bumper sits lower your
radiator is wide open except for I put this HMF bumper on here so that kind of
took up some of the space there where the radiator is wide open but I wanted
to put my lights on here so I put this bumper on whereas the EMP bumper sets up
a whole lot higher so it does cover your radiator I don't think it would restrict
any air but I'm not real sure so we got that up nice
and high. The bonus to that is you don't have a lot of muck and mud down below
there keeps your winch and everything up out of all that. Well guys that's gonna
wrap up the EMP front bumper install I hope you enjoyed it and be sure and
comment below or ask me questions ideas whatever you have tell me what bumper
you have how easy it was to put on whatever information you want to share
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