Colin, dead thread revival here, I'm curious how the fairlead hooks to place. If your drunk ass remembers I called you on Saturday when you were in Havascrew and I had torn down my M8000 winch to eye up how I am going to work this into my grill. My winch has no place to mount the fairlead, it was fastened to the receiver mount. Does yours mount to the bumper or the winch?
I pulled all connector off the top of the winch and I plan on hard wiring it under my hood (read-gangsta pimp style) and I think I'm just going to wire in the switch to my dash instead of having to dig out the controller (2 switches, 1 toggle for in/out, 1 on/off so stupid noobs don't start spooling my winch out when they're pressing buttons). Only issue is my fairlead. I need to figure out how to get that out past my lights and I'm also thinking of running a synthetic rope (the whole setup in the basket before was probably close to 60 lbs, just the winch with no controls, cable or basket is probably only like 20 lbs. If I run rope instead of cable the fairlead is much smaller and easier to hide in place as well. I'm thinking it will be about 90% hidden.