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Demountable winches
Range Rover Blues:
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Doesn't the Jack Mate tow ball kit just fit on one side? I'd be a bit wary of using that for a winch as I don't think the mounting bolts would be up to the load.
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It fastens to a lot more than most winch bumpers do but the towball adapter is held into the jacking socket by a relatively thin bolt so I'd want to secure the towball adapter to the towing eye as well. Obviously it's better to winch onto both chassis legs but if the winching is that extreme I'd be double line pulling back to the other jack mate anyway.
That said I'm drafting plans for a 'dumb iron' with towball receiver that will be a lot more secure, I'll have to make it myself though or it will end up costing more than a winch bumper.
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I'd be interested to know how you've routed your wiring. Did you run both +ve and -ve right back to the battery or did you attach the -ve to the chassis nearer the back?
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Goodwinch made me 2 full looms, front and rear with full earth cable which goes straight to the battery. They included a manual isolator but I've bought another solenoid I'm looking at using as an isolator with an in-cab switch just in case :o
Darren:
Ah, ok. Sounds very much like what I'll end up with. The only thing I'm not sure about yet is where to mount the connector on the rear, which is partly why I wondered about the earth cable.
I guess on yours you can connect it inside through the open top tailgate? Obviously not an option on a Disco so I'm considering mounting it externally, although the size and relative inflexibiltiy (is that a word?) of the cables does limit things somewhat.
For the front mounting, I'm going to get something like the attached fabricated, which can be attached with a couple of large shackles and is braced in the jacking tubes. But again, it'll wait until I've got the thing up and running on the rear first.
Range Rover Blues:
Yes for me the cable runs along the chasis then up through 2 gromets in to the rear load area to keep the socket clean. On the front it will sit along the slam panel or similar.
The cables won't be kniked but they are reasonably bendy (I think they use welding cable which is many many fine strands).
Range Rover Blues:
Just seen the download, I'd thoguh of simothing similar but it's going to be one heavy piece of metal is it's not going to kink in use.
Darren:
I know what you mean. Most winch bumpers seem to be 5mm steel and basically be like a tray that the winch sits in. I reckon that a 50 x 75mm box section with a 3mm or 4mm wall thickness and 10mm thick end plates should be man enough, though. I might even be able to have holes cut in the top and bottom face to save weight, but I'll need to do some calculations for that.
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