Rear winch on my 110

[leeds]

The story behind the rear winch on my 110 starts in Hungary in 2006. In 2006 I had a tour around Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Returning through Hungary I misjudged (read didn't see a chicane until last moment) a chicane later at night which resulted in crossing a ditch at a perfect 45 degrees. Only problem was that I crossed it at about 80 kph! :o

The chicane which resulted in a rear winch


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The radius arm was bent, the front offside (UK) wheel was ripped off the stub axle

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The 110 was recovered to a local LR dealer , 3 weeks later I recovered it across Europe


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On recovering it to the UK, I delivered it to Four Plus 4 in Leeds. It was found that the chassis was no longer in a perfect condition

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A long discussion ensued on how to reinstate the 110. Since a major rebuild was now on the cards it was decided to incorporate a rear winch. It is much easier to do it at this stage then later.

A Warn mounting plate was used as the base plate and inserted into the rear crossmember. The winch box had triangular gussets fitted in to strengthen the box, make it more asthetically pleasing and removes a sharp corner when getting things out of the back of the 110

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The winch does not extend out far from the rear cross member


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Checking the winch fits

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The floor at the back of the 110 is cut away to allow the winch to fit.


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A bracket was fitted so that the piece of floor could be supported. The solenoid pack is fitted just inside the nearside of the rear of the 110. The wander lead socket is just above the rear number plate


The finished item


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Like all overland vehicles it is an evolving project. One of the next mods will be to be able to control the winches from the drivers seat


Regards


Brendan

[Chucaro]

Very neat work :BigThumb: and a very expensive experience. :(
I just wonder if it is not cheaper to install 2 hydraulic winches (on in the front and the other on the back) using 1 common hydraulic pump and tank instead of 2 electric winches.
Of course this is in the case that a winch is not already installed at the front

[leeds]

Very neat work :BigThumb: and a very expensive experience. :(
I just wonder if it is not cheaper to install 2 hydraulic winches (on in the front and the other on the back) using 1 common hydraulic pump and tank instead of 2 electric winches.
Of course this is in the case that a winch is not already installed at the front

Thanks Chucaro.

Not the cheapest option to fitting a rear winch. Nor the intended way of doing it. :o A major overhaul was undertaken at the same time and a few other modifications were done at the same time as it was easier to work on various components.

There will not be one 'right' way of fitting two winches to a vehicle, or even kitting out an overland vehicle.

The two winches on my 110 are identical (Warn 9.5) so there is some built in 'insurance/redunancy' If someting goes wrong with one winch it would be possible to swop them around IF something went wrong with one winch and there was only one way out of a particular situation.


Regards


Brendan

[dmdigital]

Very interesting. Have you thought of mounting one control box to switch to either front or rear winch - though I suspect the wire runs would be stretching things. Also I can highly recommend the Warn remote control, works very nicely:)

[shinz]

Thanks for the write up & pics brendan, I was impressed with your rig, even more so know.:thumbsup:
Steve