JL/JT/JK Front Bumper - Trailbreaker Series - No Stinger

Trailbreaker Series Front Bumper for Jeep JL, JT & JK

The Trailbreaker front bumper tucks your winch down and back behind the bumper to keep the front end short. That gives you more clearance and better approach angles than a full-width bumper. One bumper fits the Jeep Wrangler JL, Gladiator JT and Wrangler JK, with the same parts in the box for all three.

Runs Your Winch

The winch tray carries three mounting patterns, so the Trailbreaker accepts most full-size winches. Whether a given winch needs its control box relocated, or the grille trimmed, depends on your grille, not your model year. Check the Winch Fitment chart below before you order.

Winch Fitment

Every difficulty rating below refers to the winch installation itself. Installing the Trailbreaker front frame chop bumper means cutting, grinding and drilling the frame. On a JL or JT, keeping a front sway bar also means welding on the included sway bar mounts (see Frame Chop Install below). The colors rate only the winch, on top of that work.

GREEN · Fits No cutting. Some winches need the control box relocated, which means extra wiring.
YELLOW · Trim to fit Fits once the grille is trimmed. It's up to you whether you trust yourself to cut it.
PURPLE · Untested We haven't fit this winch to this bumper yet.
RED · No go Does not fit this bumper.

• Ratings follow the grille on your Jeep, not the model year. Some early 2024 Wrangler Sport and Sport S models were built with the original grille, and the two grilles swap. And yes; if you want to do a grille swap to make a certain winch installation easier -- you can do that too!
• The JK rates the same as the 2024-style grille for most installs.
• Winch not listed? Treat it as untested and ask us before you buy.

Download the Winch Fitment Chart (PDF)

Frame Chop Install

The Trailbreaker is a frame chop bumper: the ends of the factory frame rails are cut, ground and drilled to fit. The bumper itself bolts on through inner frame plates and crush sleeves.

Sway bar mounts (included): on the JL and JT, the factory front sway bar brackets come off with the frame chop. The kit includes new sway bar mounts, which must be welded on if you want to keep running a front sway bar. The JK's sway bar mounts directly to the frame, not to a bracket that gets cut off, so no welding is needed on a JK.

If you're not comfortable cutting or welding on your frame, have the bumper installed by a qualified shop.

Sway Bar Compatibility

• Factory Sport sway bars (JK, JL & JT): compatible.
• Currie AntiRock sway bars: compatible.
• JL/JT Rubicon sway bar disconnect: coming soon. The Rubicon's disconnecting sway bar doesn't work with the Trailbreaker in its factory position. We're finishing a kit that rotates the disconnect into a specific position so you can keep your Rubicon sway bar. The included sway bar mounts that get welded on for this installation already place it where it needs to be -- and our additional kit gets it rotated into the correct rotation.

How the Rubicon kit will work: in the correctly rotated position, you engage and disconnect the bar mechanically or with air, not with the dash button. We'll share the recommended manual and pneumatic (air) disconnect options when the kit launches. We're also testing the factory electronic disconnect, but plan on the electronic module having to come off. Running a Rubicon and want the kit? Let us know when you order and we'll reach out as soon as it's ready.

Options

Lower Light Skid — a lower skid that carries your lights and is the first point of impact under the front end. If you keep the Rubicon sway bar disconnect, it shields the disconnect motor from rocks. When you add the Lower Light Skid, it takes the place of the front section of the skid surface, so that panel isn't included with a 7075 or UHMW surface.

Stinger — a mandrel-bent hoop of 2" DOM tube with a 3/16" wall, welded into the bumper.

Skid Surface — three choices:

• Bare Steel/None — the steel bumper as-is, with no added skid surface.
• 7075 — a 7075 aluminum skid surface.
• UHMW — a UHMW skid surface for sliding over rocks. The UHMW option also gets a 7075 aluminum hard edge, our "ice breaker", along its leading edge. That edge takes the hit, so the UHMW can't catch a rock and peel back.

Skid surfaces ship bare. Even on a powder-coated or zinc-plated bumper, the 7075 and UHMW skid surfaces are left as bare material, so there's no coating to scratch off and nothing to touch up. UHMW can't be powder coated. The 7075 parts can be, like the Joose orange 7075 on the JT in our photos. Want yours coated, or color-matched to your Jeep? Just tell us when you order and we'll note it on your order.

Finish — bare steel, powder coat (texture black), or zinc plated.

Made In-House in Grand Junction Colorado

Developed, laser cut, CNC formed, welded, packaged & shipped from our facility in Grand Junction, Colorado.