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just got my winch bumper done today..

BlakeGordon

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'01 XLT
so its finnaly finished and its exatly what i had pictured in my head. heres some pics :thumbsup:


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winch is purfectly hidden. built it in 3 days. getting ready for bedliner and its gonna get installed
 



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What purpose does the vertical part serve? And if that's a plastic fairlead, are you going to switch to synthetic rope?
 






i have two lights at home that are going to be mounted. its not completly verticle it has a little slant to it. nope its a metal guide
 






Oh ok - gotcha. Looks like beef!
 






I like how it looks, cept for the stinger... I would find a buddy with a bender and make that thing round... Just my humble opinion. At least cap the ends of the sqaure tube...

I like how hidden the winch is. looks good. You've got room under the truck for the winch to sit that far back?

Make sure you post pics of it mounted! :thumbsup:
 






Yeah I wanted to have tube but we had this square tubing laying around and we don't have a bender so it will do.. but I hope it turnes out alright. And yeh there should be room. I'm in dallas at my grandparents house and my trucks back in nashville.
 






I've never seen a winch mounted with the cable coming off the top of the spool. They are mounted so the cable comes off the bottom. It pulls the winch down when there is pressure on it, mounted that way will pull up on the bolts.

Also if Im looking at it you will be spooling it backwards. The motor and control box should be on the other side.

How are you accessing the freewheel lever?
 






looks odd on that saturn =o haha
 






I have the winch turned around so the power box is closer to my battery. I know which way it spools I'm not stupid haha.. and I'm sure that 4 grade 8 bolts will hold but thanks for watching out. And yeah I made the bumper for the saturn lol NOTTTTT haha
 






Not a bad build for only bein 18 haha
 






Well by looking at those pics there, I would do a couple things different to help bending or damage to radiator or grille.

1) Since you have that winch reversed, I would weld in a support bracket to keep that winch from pulling upward and forward. I would weld it behind and under or over the rear of the winch mount. If you get torque pull during load, it is going to cause that winch mount that you have designed to either rip itself away and up which could cause damage to radiator and grille. I can not imagine that there is that much room for that winch to tuck under like the way you have it mounted high on the frame horns and the control box much higher than the bumper.
2) The stinger you got mounted there on top of the bumper is not going to make it if you happen to bump it against a tree or like, it is going to snap off. I say that because the diameter and hardly no forward angle on it. For looks and design factor, I would of made it out of round stock and since you mention you have no bender I would of made some wooden jigs and scured them to a bench table or something strong and flat and heat bent it to shape needed. Properly designed Stingers are to have degree forward mounting to be able to absorb hits and bouncing off objects without ripping off. And since your sq tubing is thin walled, it will just rip off after a bump or two.

If you are building that somewhere other than where the truck is, how did you get the right spacing and length for the frame horns, and to be sure you have no frame clearance issues along with the winch clearance issues?
 






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