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ChrisK · 05-18-08, 06:46 PM

Well, here I am almost 6 months later and have made almost no progress. Par for the course. I dragged the winch out of storage today to clean it up a bit more. I split the case and added a drain plug, as recommended elsewhere.

I have access to a CNC plasma cutter locally, so I may try making my own winch plate for this thing. I'm still trying to figure out how it all mounts up. Today's fairleads seem to be 10" between mounting holes and only 7" or so across; my winch spool is 8.5" wide. How much does that matter, if at all? In your photos, FF LC FREAK, it appears that the fairlead is narrower than the spool, so I guess it works...

The other question I have is (since my truck lives 3 hours away) how much room I have between the rails to adjust things. The CCOT bumpers appear to put the cable hole dead center. If I mount the 6000 that way, will it fit? Will I be able to get to the "oil level" hole? Or should I push on to make the cable hole off center a bit (yours is 2" towards the driver)? (And how big is that cable hole, anyway? I see 2" high ... and compute the width to 8", which is narrower than the spool?)

Thanks.

05-18-08, 06:46 PM	#15
ChrisK IH8MUD Rookie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Palo Alto (and Oakhurst), CA TLCA# 12803 Posts: 28	Well, here I am almost 6 months later and have made almost no progress. Par for the course. I dragged the winch out of storage today to clean it up a bit more. I split the case and added a drain plug, as recommended elsewhere. I have access to a CNC plasma cutter locally, so I may try making my own winch plate for this thing. I'm still trying to figure out how it all mounts up. Today's fairleads seem to be 10" between mounting holes and only 7" or so across; my winch spool is 8.5" wide. How much does that matter, if at all? In your photos, FF LC FREAK, it appears that the fairlead is narrower than the spool, so I guess it works... The other question I have is (since my truck lives 3 hours away) how much room I have between the rails to adjust things. The CCOT bumpers appear to put the cable hole dead center. If I mount the 6000 that way, will it fit? Will I be able to get to the "oil level" hole? Or should I push on to make the cable hole off center a bit (yours is 2" towards the driver)? (And how big is that cable hole, anyway? I see 2" high ... and compute the width to 8", which is narrower than the spool?) Thanks.