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Cheers Mark!
Land Rover Experience Eastnor Castle had a 2008 90 with an OEM winch bumper and an 8274 fitted, but there was obvious significant surgery to the grill to fit it all in.
I reccon there's a chancethat Daniel's SVX modified bulbar fitted to a non-SVX Puma might have enough space for an 8274's moving parts...
This is my bar:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...12/04/1136.jpg
If Daniel's SVX modded bar is the same as my ****(rhymes with Brit)part bar that Rovacraft sells and Daniel helped install, it won't fit an 8274 without serious modifications. The mounting bolts for the 8274 are further apart than those of the low mounts by about an inch, and face the front where a low mount's bolts can be rotated to face any direction. The bar is set up to have the winch bolted down, not forward like the 8274 requires.
To fit an 8274 means cutting the centre section of the bar out and welding in a new cradle. Then cutting your front grill up if you have the extended nosecone like mine does.
When I bought the bar, the company that sold it were definite the 8274 winch would fit with the extended nose cone but they didn't even check the mounting holes, just took the money and sent the item. Now I have a bar that doesn't fit my winch. It looks rubbish without a winch but I don't want to downgrade to a low mount winch.
And that is why I have an ARB bar to replace the ****part item.
Also the powder coating on the bars is rubbish, flakes off easily and has gaps around weld seams. They should come with a tin of black spray paint.
What sort of winch do you have mark? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by isuzutoo-eh
Will it fit the bar?
http://nixons.com.au/images/products/preview/thomas.jpg
Hi mount for the moment...pending upgrade :D
I think it'll fit the ARB style* bar without much more than a few holes drilled but the Rovacraft one...big problem.
Really need to see it before knowing though.
*Think its a genuine LR bar but is set up for low or hi mounts, no maker's marks on it anywhere just serial numbers
Thanks for the info guys,,
Isuzutoo-eh, your current bar looks really good, but yes it does look like it needs a winch.
We want to have a bar with a bit more protection on it, around the lights etc, and will probably want brush bars as well, it will after all be more of a touring unit, so I guess I'll just have to make my own :( . I'm thinking everybodies going to want to see pics if I do that,, (haha,, cant weld and take pics at the same time,,;))
Cheers Chops