Hi,
Just mounted a Warn XD9000 into a D2 Winch bar. Now to put in the fairlead. Obviously with the winch feet mounted flat to the back of the bar there is no room for other bolts in the bar frame and drilling into the bar where the fairllead holes currently are would weaken the bars structural integrity.
Do i simply remove rollers in the fairlead and drill new holes?
Is two enough?
It seems sensible to drill and use the bottom bolt holes that hold the winch. Is that correct re the winch position?
The opening in the fairlead should line up with where the cable comes off the bottom of the winch drum so the cable doesn't touch on a straight pull. It can take some movement up or down. - in the real world you are unlikely to have the cable running square through the fairlead and after all that's why you have the rollers anyway.
2 bolts are enough for the fairlead and I would not be concerned about drilling more holes in it if needed for proper adjustment. I have bought fairleads before that have multiple holes to allow for fitment on different bars.
While you have the rollers out, give them a good clean through the inside so they can move freely when they have load applied against them.
Hi Remy, the motor on the XD9000 does go to the DS and will be only a few mm from the mount.
The fairlead you have there doesn't look like a normal low mount fairlead from Warn. You will need to sit it into the bullbar at the bottom of the slot and drill out 2 holes to suit the mount. The 2 holes will sit underneath the existing holes that are in the centre (heightwise).
Cheers Slunnie
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Thanks guys! Now after that to wire it up. I am missing the controller and $140 for a warn one i am going to rewire a old TJM one (spare in garage) to fit using a trailer plug or something similar. Doesn't appear that there is any load just small current. Anyway if anyone sees problems with this let me know.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Remy
warn winch controllers come up quite often on ebay, do a search for fault diagnosis a lot of time its the solenoids with bad connections or corosion
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