Reply With QuoteI had an Aldi winch and a TJM bullbar on my D1, and had it positioned exactly as you have it shown in the last picture.
AT RESTAfter the good wrap Aldi winches were getting I saw one at the local Aldis and purchased it. The control box is supposed to be mounted on top of the winch top brace bars, ideal if you have room above the winch.
I have a TJM bar that has a winch cradle, fitting the winch to the cradle doesn't allow room for or access to the controller so the controller needs to be remounted somewhere else.
Any ideas, there is no room in under the bonnet. I thought of making a bracket for above the bumper, but this exposes it to vandals.
see pics
pic of winch fitted to cradle
Pic 2 is with bullbar refitted
one thought was to mount it up here, but open to suggestions.
Last edited by Roverlord off road spares; 3rd September 2014 at 09:47 PM. Reason: bad spelling
I had an Aldi winch and a TJM bullbar on my D1, and had it positioned exactly as you have it shown in the last picture.
One thought though, the clutch lever on the right hand side - I had no issue getting my hand through the hole to the right of the rego plate as I have small hands.
I know some have rotated that gearbox to make access easier (the clutch lever would be at the front then, not on top).
Wizard
Good idea. And it is not difficult to do either.Originally Posted by sheerluck
Swaggie
Mmmm are you worried about our tip at the end of the month mate
Mud tyes might help as well , Hell go lockers as well im sure i could find something you can try all your shinny new gizmos on
AT RESTInstead of taking a swag, i was thinking of taking the camper trailer, it has a large under bed area that I can fill with Disco2 TD5 hoses, belts, rotors, brakes, radiators etc etc, incase you break down and are in the poo.Mmmm are you worried about our tip at the end of the month mate
Mud tyes might help as well , Hell go lockers as well im sure i could find something you can try all your shinny new gizmos on
He He He
Ps also has space of the viscous fan tools, just in case
Don't talk about tyres, I noticed my $300 plus Michellan cross lateral has a small cut in the sidewall, No this time I didn't run over a star picket in the garden bed.
AT RESTHey I thought about it, but whats involved to turn it? unbolt the side plate nuts?
I can reach in the bar hole quite well to move the lever
AT RESTChris I was also looking at a bonnet tarp and exhaust extension with a 90deg bend made up to keep the exhaust up out of the water for that river crossingMmmm are you worried about our tip at the end of the month mate
Cheers Mario
Master
Hi, I'm just fitting one at the moment, I decided to mount the solenoids in the jack position by the battery box. Thoughts behind that were as follows,
Power lead to solenoid, long lead equals more chance of short, solenoids close to battery less to no chance of short, lead to motor is only live when winching.
I also had all the leads changed, I was not happy with the supplied ones, the long leads were far too long, = voltage loss, I also considered them too light, got new ones made by the local sparky, had to because of different lengths due to fitting solenoids away from the motor.
As a plus they are out of the wet and muddy environment.
Regards
Mike
Wizard
Yes. There will be something like 16 long hex bolts holding it together. (you can see them in your picture on the right hand side of the winch) Undo them and twist the whole thing until the lever is where you want it. Simply put the bolts back in. The only possible issue i can see is there is probably a gasket that may end up breaking when you twist it. If it does break you would want to replace it with gasket gue of some description.
I did this with my Tabor winch. If you are not confident to do it yourself drop it off at work and i'll get it done for you in a couple of days. I was cleaning, re greasing and resealing it when i worked out how they come apart.
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