[mikes]

have a 20 uforce 1000 1st time plowing yesterday found the winch mount bent 90* downward at the fairlead, anyone else have this issue? looks like the winch has too much power for the mild steel mount.?

[magalich]

I just had the same thing happen to my 2021 cfmoto uforce 1000.  I have a 66" KFI plow and used it the other day.  Just today I was out in my garage and noticed the winch mount was bent downwards. The thing that sucks is the piece that's bent is welded to the frame. I guess I will have to get someone to weld it stronger than the original. Kind of a poor design I think.

[NMKawierider]

I guess the Chinese engineers didn't figure on people installing snow plows on their machines. 

[mikes]

yeah, thats what happened to mine, & cf moto says its user error, not a warranty issue, I picked up some longer fairlead bolts & nuts, & some 1'' flat stock. Im going to try to make some support brackets for now. I was thinking of cutting the mounting ears off & bolting in a new heavy duty winch mount with new fairlead mounting points. I sure hope the rest of this machine is designed better than this..

[magalich]

This is what I ended up doing.  No matter what you do, all the weight is on the end of the bracket which is poor design in my opinion.  I used some 1 inch angle iron and trimmed it to fit under the winch where it needed to.  I also replaced the 8x1.25 20mm bolts with 8x1.25 25mm bolts because of the slight depth increase of the angle iron.  If this thing bends now with a plow on the front, then the whole frame is probably bending!

[NMKawierider]

Way to go! Nice work!

[Mogleybear]

Nice fabrication there. 

[Sockman]

Yep, that oughta hold it.  Job well done.

[Ponytail]

Nice job. There is also time to do it write the second time.