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will an ARB bumper fit on an air con TD5 90?
will it fit and will a winch, lowline goldfish tds etc, fit?
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anyone?

cause if i don't i'll make it fit!
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Re: will an ARB bumper fit on an air con TD5 90?
T1G UP wrote:
will it fit and will a winch, lowline goldfish tds etc, fit?


Apparently there are two types of ARB bumper for Defenders - one for aircon and one without.

I've got an aircon one fitted to my 110 with a TDS winch, but you have to mount the solenoid pack elsewhere - I've mounted it centrally over the winch using a bracket supplied with the Warn XPi winch I removed. You may also have to change the winch orientation to 'feet forward' rather than 'feet down'.

The ARB bumper is a nice bit of kit, but if you've got any sense you give it a good coat of paint first while your got the chance. Mine's rusting in various hard to get at places.

I can also recommend the TDS winch - despite the massive price difference I think it's a lot better than the Warn it replaced. Dave
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got any close up pics?

what would be the difference in the bumpers?

i'm guessing mines the same as every other ARB defender bumper i've seen.
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T1G UP wrote:
got any close up pics?

what would be the difference in the bumpers?

i'm guessing mines the same as every other ARB defender bumper i've seen.


None close-up but a quick search of Google images will show the differences - the air-con one sits a lot further away (probably 2.5 - 3 inches) to allow a winch to be fitted with the extended nose of an aircon equipped vehicle. The bumpers themselves look otherwise identical.

You may be able to fit a non-aircon bumper but you'll almost certainly have to cut the grill and remote-mount the winch solenoids. I haven't tried it so don't take my word for it. Dave
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Some pictures taken last night in the rain Rolling Eyes I've seen a non-aircon bumper and it sits much closer to the headlight panel.

Have a look at http://gallery.me.com/nosnibod#100210&...;view=grid. Dave
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Some pictures taken last night in the rain Rolling Eyes I've seen a non-aircon bumper and it sits much closer to the headlight panel.

Have a look at http://gallery.me.com/nosnibod#100210&...;view=grid.


thankyou for doing that.

looks the same as mine tbh but until i can offer it up i'm just guessing.

roll on next week!
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ok got some good news.....well for me anyway!

it's got air-con but no front panel extension?!

so ARB will fit straight on Thumbs Up

never seen it all fitted in the front before, could be a smaller condenser but th fan is in the front etc!

next off is the auto conversion.....
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Marcus,,

As the 90 has the "short" grill for some reason, I can not see it being a problem fitting a "non AC" bumper to it,,

One way of finding out though !! California F1, 75th 110 "Kermit", 50th Ann V8, 90 V8 Hybrid, 55 Series 1

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it'll go on. i got a vast selection of cutting implimates and a big plasma cutter!
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