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Here are the beginings of my winch mount and front bumper. Minor trimming of the valance allows the winch to tuck in a tad closer.

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New pictures.... need to wire it, maybe throw on a plastic line.

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The two Curtis/Albright 125 amp contactors along with the 1/0 wires are mounted above the #2 battery. The cover, which needs a bit more waterproofing, is sitting on the airbox behind. The contactor is a great fully rebuildable piece, all parts are available in the unlikely event of a part failing.

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The winch does indeed pull in at a very smooth no load line speed of roughly 45 ft/min. Soon enough the real pulling power will be seen... Should do 12k on a single line. :beer:
 
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Nice grill. What did you use to paint it?
 
The winch doesn't really block much flow when compared to the large flat stock bumper with 2 vents. I did consider how air would flow around it. If you look at the head on picture, you can see how the mount guides the air to either side, and then under the drum.

The grill is painted with a can of Duplicolor Bedliner spray. Best described as a semi-durable coating, neat textures can be produced by varying coat thickness and spray distance. Good for bumpers and such, too... easy to touch up after use. :D
 
<<<<" Minor trimming">>> :D

Well, you did leave some of the middle behind ;)
 
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The grill is painted with a can of Duplicolor Bedliner spray. Best described as a semi-durable coating, neat textures can be produced by varying coat thickness and spray distance. Good for bumpers and such, too... easy to touch up after use. :D
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That is what I thought. I did the same thing, but after just one Utah winter much of the texturing is flaking off. Time to touch it up a bit.
 
What springs do you have on the L/C. Bumper looks Awsome!

Tim
 
Brian, looks great but I had a quiestion as I ponder going a similar route. Have you considered the way the winch is mounted, with the four mounting bolts facing down, so that the force exerted while winching is translated as a sheering force on those four bolts? I had assumed that the mounting bolts were more for maintaining the location of the winch and not necessarily the critical load bearing components between the stationary object and the winch so that the bumper and its mounting to the frame bore the stress and the winch was essentially pulling against all of that structure. I guess what you end up putting around it will make a difference but as it is now I would think that given the hopped up performance of your winch you may develop forces that exceed the sheering capacity of the bolts, the mounting holes in the winch frame or both. Just something to consider, because I think you've done a great job with your modifications.
Mike R.
 
Brian,

I'm curious as to why you choose the regular 863's over the 863J's.

Also the front grill looks really clean. Nice job. How is that little lip that you have on the grill cutout made?
 
Mike, most winches mount this way, placing sheer on the bolts. The Superwinch X9 and Warn 8274 are the only winches I know of that have the 4 main mounting bolts facing forward (please correct if anyone knows of more). I won't bother you with the specifics of the box structure I built for a mounting platform... the 4 main M12 bolts that hold the winch to it are a grade 12.9 alloy steel - good stuff. They thread a good 1.25" directly into the heat treat case. There are also 4 12.9 M8 socket heads bolted through the fairlead and the 2 rather smallish 3/16" plates which are welded to the base.

Derek, thanks for noticing the lip... I'm rather proud of it. :) The lip is metal shaping 101. Some pliers make the initial lip (probably not the best way), then a small hammer and dolly are used to smooth and pound into the desired shape - not as hard as it looks. I'd like to go much further with my metal shaping and working... my 1951 Jowett Jupiter needs restoration to the body, which was built from surplus WW2 British aircraft aluminun skin, machine pressed, then hand hammered/fitted to the car. Needless to say, I have very far to go. Sorry... got off track there.
 
nice job...looks like grinding is your forte' :)

kumar
 
Brian,

If it's not too much trouble can you post a wiring diagram of what you've done there? Thanks!
 
>> The two Curtis/Albright 125 amp contactors ... <<

Brian,
Is this a mod to the normal winch wiring?

-B-
 
Darwood - I will try to whip up some type of schematic (sp?)... Pretty sure it is the same as the solenoids.

Junk - First real trip out was a couple weeks back... already broke a tail light and put a half dollar sized dent below that... it's so cute :D

B - The contactors are put in place of the stock solenoids. All new Superwinches come with a Curtis Albright contactor pack... my winch was NOS and had solenoids. Contactors make solenoids look cheap. Curtis catalog http://www.curtisinst.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=cDatasheets.dspListDS&CatID=7
 
Bjowett - cool, glad to here it's getting out. FWIW, we're heading out again in 2 weeks if you're interested. We may be up closer to you than Paragon. If so, will give you as much notice as I can if you want to go with us.
 
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