Mounting a winch

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thePunter1

thePunter1

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Hi,

I have a low mount winch which I recovered from my written off 100 Series and I would like to put it on my FJ73. On the 100 Series I had a mounting plate that straddled the bottom of the two chassis rails and was attached using four bolts to the bottom of the chassis rails. I think others are bolted directly to the bull bar. The bull bar on the FJ73 will not accept a winch so I will have to do some modifications to get it to fit. I am looking for ideas how others have fitted a winch to their 70 series.

I have been searching through the archives and while I have had a lot of fun looking at pictures of everybody’s modified vehicle, I have not been able to see much detail on the winch mounting points. So, can I please ask you to direct me to where I could find such detail, or provide me a photo of how you have mounted your winch to your 70 series.

Thanks in advance,
David.
 
post pictures of your bumper and I bet some guys will have an idea of what to do.

From your avatar it looks like you have an aluminum copy of an ARB. Might be possible to make a cross over bracket out of steel for your winch to sit on. And then just cut a fairlead hole in the bumper.
 
Hi,

It is a steel bar and it is painted white - so it probably looks like aluminum in the photo. I think ARB also made bars for Toyota in Australia, so it could be an ARB or Toyota bar.

I will see if I can take some photos and post them up tonight.

The first photo is of one of the mounting points. The second photo is the top of the bar. Perhaps I can mount the winch on top of the bar but I think that I would need to some how tie it back the the mounting points on the frame rails.
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bullbartop.webp
 
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Yes - good idea. When I get around to doing the winch install the bar is coming off and I am going to give the front a good cleanup and paint where necessary. I will put some rust restorer on the bar and give it a good paint as well. I am then thinking of buying some Liteforce 170 or 240 - whatever I can fit on.

David.
 
I dont think you have enough room.I have the same bullbar on my 75 series, mine seems to sit further forward but it would still be a tight fit.
If you paint it and make it look good ,you can still get $3-400 for a steel bullbar and use the money to buy a purpose built winch bar.
 
Gidday

I have my PTO/Electric winch mounted on a 8mm steel plate which sits on top of the chassis rails and is bolted to the chassis. The previous XD9000 bent the bull bar during a heavy pull as it was mounted attached to the bar and not the chassis.

I just use the bar for the mounting of the fairlead roller.

I will post pictures over next couple of days.
 
the frame horns on a 70 series is the weak link for a bumper install. i also use the 2 outer plates to further strengthen the assembly. if you are going to make a plate then use all the bolt holes for the upright pieces, make the upright about 1/4" higher than the top of the frame. make it as deep as needed to clear the winch. over hang the length ab out 4" and from this extra run legs down to the other 4 bolt holed front plates.
the winch plate will need to be concidered in conjunction with the roller fairlead and bumper since all the stress of the side pull is on that point.

i would have to agree with Rosco, sell the old bumper and build a custom one that incorporates the new winch...properly
 
When I did my first bumper, I used 4 inch angle iron that I drilled to fit the factory bolt locations on the frame and upgraded the bolts.

This angle iron extended past the frame horns.

I then welded a piece of 4 inch rectangular tubing to the front of the extended angle iron. This tubing served to act as the mounting location for my hawse (fairleads). When I bolted the hawse, I used pipe for spacers inside the rectanglar tube which sleeved the hawse mounting bolts. This was done so that the 4 inch tube wouldn't collapse when I bolted the hawse on.

I then welded a piece of angle iron on the grill side of the rectangular tube, bottom edge of tube. This formed the front mount for the winch. I drilled it out to match the bolt locations on the front of the winch.

I then welded another piece of angle iron to form the rear mount for the winch. This was welded to the angle iron extensions I made for the frame. This was drilled out to accept the rear mounting bolts of the winch.

Basically its just a tray. Simple but very strong. Got me out of trouble a few times.
 
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