Terrafirma discreet winch mount installation

just to round out this thread...

I made a bracket bolted onto the bottom/side of my traxide battery tray to mount a winch isolator. It's a 500a Stinger isolator controlled by a switch inside the car. I really liked the manual+switch operated isolator Scott used but couldn't bring myself to pay >$600! The switch circuit is fused - not sure if it needed to be but it's got a 3a fuse there just in case.
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and I ended up going with a slim line number pate mounted above as I couldn't fit a thimble with a flip up number pate. i was also concerned it might come off in river crossing.
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You have to be happy with that, that's awesome

That's a really neat install. Very impressive, well done.

Well done with the install...it is a challenge and I shared a lot of your frustration when I installed my winch as an early COVID Lockdown project back in 2020 https://www.aulro.com/afvb/l319-disc...6=#post3018984

Cheers Naps

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Originally Posted by Macadamia

I cannot express the level of frustration trying to bolt the mount to the chassis using the supplied captive nuts - they are just ever so slightly out of spec. But I've got most of it done and just need to cut the bumper.

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Hi ... similar issue with the supplied captive nuts that are bracketed together imprecisely and never line up...I think in the end I replaced them with other high tensile nuts...and yes, loads of bumper cutouts.

Naps