J66P's Winch Mount Fitted

[Chris Green90]

Finally got round to fitting the winch mount Gary (J66P) made for me.

It's Spectactular and I am really pleased with how it looks

First off strip out bull bars, grill and bumper

The end of the chassis rails have to be removed, 12mm Socked with extension through the hole in the front, Then the existing recovery eyes need to be removed, 17mm socket, Had to use the big wheel brace socket and plenty of free up to get these out.

The bottom of the plate on the end of the chassis rail has to be ground away to leave it flush with the rail.

Mount the plate using the existing recovery point mountings and bolts

Install winch and trim bumper to fit.

I just removed the whole bottom portion of the bumper as the bull bars hide everything really well

 

[Red Oktober]

That's real tidy

 

[J66P]

looks like it was made to fit the gap in the bull bar that was a bit of luck I recon cos never even took the bull bar models into account

Glad you are pleased with it Chris, rock rails next i am thinking

 

[Andrew Prince]

A little OT - Chris, do you not think Plod will be concerned about your X-lites (spotlights) obscuring the front numberplate?

 

[Chris Green90]

A little OT

Have moved numberplate just below the lights now, just stuck it there to get a better pic of the mount ect.

 

[Chris Green90]

looks like it was made to fit the gap in the bull bar that was a bit of luck I recon cos never even took the bull bar models into account

Glad you are pleased with it Chris, rock rails next i am thinking

If the bull bars hadn't have fitted thy would have gone back on the bay, but i do like the look with them on so I'm glad that they do.

Definatly sliders next, well apart from the snork sat in shed waiting to go on

 

[Gav Peter]

[quote="Andrew Prince":8c6g7b9h]A little OT

Have moved numberplate just below the lights now, just stuck it there to get a better pic of the mount ect.[/quote:8c6g7b9h]OT = Off Topic

The mount fits in really well Chris - looking forward to seeing how the snorkel fits. Will you be the first to fit one of these Alien schnorks??

Cheers

 

[BIG clean GREEN]

Will you be the first to fit one of these Alien schnorks??

I do hope not Gavalaa ( I maybe up your way Sunday Gav to look at VW beetle for my Mrs, well southport !)

 

[craig]

looking good
number plate would look good on the bonnet as a sticker

 

[Chris Green90]

Thanks Craig that's where I was hoping to put it but was not sure on the leagalities

Hoping to get schnork on before the weekend, got a little time off work.

Have been looking at sae70's post on his safari one and it does look very very similar, will prob use that as my fitting guide

 

[Chris Green90]

Don't suppose anyone knows the best place for shackles and also what sort of size I should be going for???

 

[Red Oktober]

not sure where to get them ..... but get the highest rating you can

 

[TonyP]

Don't suppose anyone knows the best place for shackles and also what sort of size I should be going for???

I got my last set of shackles from Screwfix, but that was because I could not be bothered to wait for delivery. Search online there are lots of companies who will supply these.

 

[sae70]

These are the chaps that I've used over the years http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Galvanized-Specialists

They also have a proper commercial web site as well as the eBay thing, but eBay just seems easier to me

Don't go wild all you need is two 20mm 'D' shackles & one 20mm 'BOW' shackle to get you started

If you have a Hi-Lift jack then an M12 'D' shackle is a handy thing to have as a saftey pin

Get yourself onto Dave Bowyer's Goodwinch web site http://www.dborc.co.uk/goodwinch/ and have a read through some of his learn with Dave topics, there's alot of very interesting information there