so a quick question for you all ...
I bought the bumper from fleabay (an ARB Sahara), and it's now been straightened and mounted with lots of help from Jon and Gav - great spanering and welding there, guys!
My job is to fit the TDS Goldfish 12k winch. All was going well - the biggest issue was finding the time to do this. Last Saturday was deemed to be a suitable day - SWMBO was at her parents, the weather was as good as it's going to get - what could possibly go wrong?
Well, the fickle finger of fate came along and did it's stuff. I have an electric fan in the front of my radiator that other, lesser, 120s don't. Go figure. Anyway - what thi smeans is that becuase we had to lift the bumper mounts, due to the body-lift, the winch control box collides with the plastic fan shround and electric plugs - not a good combination. Wasn't fun bench-pressing 40kg+ of without being able to get it into the spot it had to go - and trying to twiddle it at the same time!
So - I will have to remote-mount the control box. Question is - where! There seems to be provision on top of the bumper for it - but that seems to be a bit too exposed for my liking. I've got all the extension cables, but there's very little - in fact almost no - room in the engine bay.
Any other suggestions? Can't see me running it from in the cab somehow - no room in there either! I guess I may have to make a custom platform to go near the diesel filter - right where I wanted to put the air compressor. Grrr...
I bought the bumper from fleabay (an ARB Sahara), and it's now been straightened and mounted with lots of help from Jon and Gav - great spanering and welding there, guys!
My job is to fit the TDS Goldfish 12k winch. All was going well - the biggest issue was finding the time to do this. Last Saturday was deemed to be a suitable day - SWMBO was at her parents, the weather was as good as it's going to get - what could possibly go wrong?
Well, the fickle finger of fate came along and did it's stuff. I have an electric fan in the front of my radiator that other, lesser, 120s don't. Go figure. Anyway - what thi smeans is that becuase we had to lift the bumper mounts, due to the body-lift, the winch control box collides with the plastic fan shround and electric plugs - not a good combination. Wasn't fun bench-pressing 40kg+ of without being able to get it into the spot it had to go - and trying to twiddle it at the same time!
So - I will have to remote-mount the control box. Question is - where! There seems to be provision on top of the bumper for it - but that seems to be a bit too exposed for my liking. I've got all the extension cables, but there's very little - in fact almost no - room in the engine bay.
Any other suggestions? Can't see me running it from in the cab somehow - no room in there either! I guess I may have to make a custom platform to go near the diesel filter - right where I wanted to put the air compressor. Grrr...
