Just curious if anyone has noticed a negative impact on cooling after installing the Ford winch? Curious since it tucks into that air opening on the bumper.

 

It can't be worse than installing a Ranch Hand bumper which numerous people have.

 

If it did you'd see and hear a lot more people having issues. I can't say for 100% sure it doesn't because I don't have one on my truck but I'm 98.5% sure it does not impact cooling in any way. I've ran a winch on a few Jeeps and never had an issue with cooling due to winch placement.

 

while I don't have that winch, I have this warn bumper/winch combo and my temps are just fine with heavy towing.

 

Thanks everyone. I also guess since Ford put their name on it and offers it on the build page that they would of R&D'd any potential issues.

 

You aren't going to push the truck hard enough to have cooling issues from a tiny winch up front.

 

Not for 99.9 percent of the superduty out there.

 

Ford performance says the winch will have an effect on air flow through the coolers but nothing specific or how much effect it has.

 

YES, I am sure Ford is offering a factory option that will compromise the use of the truck.... Good grief