Huge sincere thank you to Stan, Mo and Dave for their awesome help Saturday morning installing the snorkel and Warn M12000 winch.
I had the air cleaner and old air intake in the fender all off before any arrivals and had taped the template for the snorkel in place. I put down some painters masking tape on the fender where the big hole was to go before taping the template in place. Everyone, and I mean everyone that I'd spoken too about this and every write up I'd read all said TRUST the template. While Stan and Dave went and got a 1/2 inch drill bit for the fairlead drilling and a Starbucks for Dave, I took a deep, deep breath, trusted the template and drilled a huge hole in a perfectly good quarterpanel! Did this while Stan and Dave were away and Mo not there yet. I didn't want them to see a grown man cry if I f'ed up. Fortunately I didn't. Thanks to Dave for bringing his hole saw and step bit. Both made the job easy and cheaper! After that it was some of the best tag team four man help I've ever seen. Mo, with his knownledge and expertise dropped the antenna mast out of the way, making reaching the back two snorkel bolts a piece of cake. I can understand the difficulty if the antenna was still there, but Mo's help made that part easy. While I deburred the drill holes and touched up the edges of the holes with touch up paint and made the fitment of the snorkel the others got the holes drilled into the fairlead. With the snorkel firmly in place, Dave and Stan did their best imitation of body builders I've ever seen hoisting the 136 lb (shipping weight) winch into place while I got the easy job of threading the bolts. While the three of us did this, Mo reinstalled the antenna mast, connected the snorkel to the air cleaner and put that all back into place.
In grand total, the four of us got all this done in less than three hours. Cruiserheads rock here on this board and these three guys were great giving up their Saturday morning to help. Since none had time to stick around for pizza and beer, the next get together with the three of you present, pizza and beer is on me!
Snorkel writeups from Jim Brantley, George Scollaro, and Christo Slee were very helpful to have read thru prior to this. I'd highly recommend to anyone doing this to drop the antenna mast!
I'm holding off wiring up the electrical from the winch until IPOR's 2nd battery kit arrives and is installed. To tighten up the winch cable, I had my son just hold the winch cables to the battery terminals. I've got the motor grounded and the cables zip tied awaiting the 2nd battery.
No pics - you've all seen pics of winches and snorkels, but the black snorkel and black durabacked flares on a white truck look just awesome!
Again, THANKS to Stan, Mo and Dave for their, time, effort and expertise. I appreciate your generosity!
I had the air cleaner and old air intake in the fender all off before any arrivals and had taped the template for the snorkel in place. I put down some painters masking tape on the fender where the big hole was to go before taping the template in place. Everyone, and I mean everyone that I'd spoken too about this and every write up I'd read all said TRUST the template. While Stan and Dave went and got a 1/2 inch drill bit for the fairlead drilling and a Starbucks for Dave, I took a deep, deep breath, trusted the template and drilled a huge hole in a perfectly good quarterpanel! Did this while Stan and Dave were away and Mo not there yet. I didn't want them to see a grown man cry if I f'ed up. Fortunately I didn't. Thanks to Dave for bringing his hole saw and step bit. Both made the job easy and cheaper! After that it was some of the best tag team four man help I've ever seen. Mo, with his knownledge and expertise dropped the antenna mast out of the way, making reaching the back two snorkel bolts a piece of cake. I can understand the difficulty if the antenna was still there, but Mo's help made that part easy. While I deburred the drill holes and touched up the edges of the holes with touch up paint and made the fitment of the snorkel the others got the holes drilled into the fairlead. With the snorkel firmly in place, Dave and Stan did their best imitation of body builders I've ever seen hoisting the 136 lb (shipping weight) winch into place while I got the easy job of threading the bolts. While the three of us did this, Mo reinstalled the antenna mast, connected the snorkel to the air cleaner and put that all back into place.
In grand total, the four of us got all this done in less than three hours. Cruiserheads rock here on this board and these three guys were great giving up their Saturday morning to help. Since none had time to stick around for pizza and beer, the next get together with the three of you present, pizza and beer is on me!
Snorkel writeups from Jim Brantley, George Scollaro, and Christo Slee were very helpful to have read thru prior to this. I'd highly recommend to anyone doing this to drop the antenna mast!
I'm holding off wiring up the electrical from the winch until IPOR's 2nd battery kit arrives and is installed. To tighten up the winch cable, I had my son just hold the winch cables to the battery terminals. I've got the motor grounded and the cables zip tied awaiting the 2nd battery.
No pics - you've all seen pics of winches and snorkels, but the black snorkel and black durabacked flares on a white truck look just awesome!
Again, THANKS to Stan, Mo and Dave for their, time, effort and expertise. I appreciate your generosity!
