Thread: help with a winch install

Originally Posted by Chronic

Hi folks I went and bought a winch yesterday one of those Aldi ones for $500previously had warn on the old Poooootrol and never used it, how ever seeing that most of my wheeling nowa days in done during the week I thought I better have one

the prob is that the holes line up for the ARB bar and the winch but not the fair lead do I A. drill some holes in the fair lead braket or B. do I buy another fair lead ? Im imaging that perhaps drill new holes what do you guys think

thanks in advance for your help

Buy a fairlead that fits the bar.

Baz.

Originally Posted by Redback

Buy a fairlead that fits the bar.

x2

cool thanks guys

Hello Chronic,

I had the same problem, and purchased the Aldi winch for the same reason. I did drill some new holes in the ARB bull bar, to suit the fairlead, and it has worked fine. As I recall, was easy to do, and don't think that it has affected the integrity of the bar.
My reasoning, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The fairlead works fine, and has done so, for the last year.

Cheers,

Ken

Yep, cheap crap winches don't fit, If I remember, the one I did a while ago, I drilled the fairlead

cheap crap as it maybe Ive had a warn once upon a time had it for 3 years needed it on average 3 times a year while wheeling on average every fortnight $500 apose to $2000 mmmmmm Aldi seems good

I drilled new hole in the fair lead and it seems that Im going to have to drill out the excisting holes on the bar to mount the winch bob then should be my uncle

by the way ARB wanted $220 for fair lead why are they so expensive

let me guess because they can be

Have you got the fairlead offset low compared to the winch drum so that when the cable feeds out from the bottom of the winch that it passes through the middle of the fairlead (ie the drum isn't positioned centrally to the winch cable slot in the bullbar).

Originally Posted by Chronic

cheap crap as it maybe Ive had a warn once upon a time had it for 3 years needed it on average 3 times a year while wheeling on average every fortnight $500 apose to $2000 mmmmmm Aldi seems good

I drilled new hole in the fair lead and it seems that Im going to have to drill out the excisting holes on the bar to mount the winch bob then should be my uncle

by the way ARB wanted $220 for fair lead why are they so expensive

let me guess because they can be

They DO fail, its very frustrating funny to watch