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I'm no engineer but I did sleep in a holiday inn express last night, and cutting away part of the supporting frame for your airlift bumper to fit a winch seems ill-advised.
Finally completed my winch installation, the wiring.
The hardest part was deciding where to hook in to tap power. Two obvious choices: under the vehicle on the starter, or back in the battery compartment under the commander's seat.
I opted to run the positive lead back to the 24V post on the...
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I'm pretty sure they were factory. Different trucks, different years, different models - identical military 12 volt plugs. With the same type of connector cover as on the STE-ICE cover.
Thanks for your view. That bit on hot for the disconnect is what I would have done too but it seems a number of 4WD sites say negative. I am going to disregard that nonsense as internet stupidity.
And I am in the camp of "no" on breaker or fuse. With potentially a 500 A load at peak, I feel...
Continued the winch install.
As posted above, the winch plate mounting holes were significantly oversized compared to the corresponding mounting holes on the winch itself. In the photo below, the winch is yellow so you can see clearly the disparity:
Got in touch with a machinist on ebay...
Hydraulic would be great but my long search for an ECV front plate failed. I will definitely not be running that winch more than 30-50 seconds at a time with a 10 minute cooldown (as per the manual).
Remove the radiator and go top down, of course!
Just kidding, I know that will be with great difficulty. I haven't been able to come up with an acceptable alternative to this mounting position. A rear winch would be better in that situation.
I continued the winch install on truck #2.
The winch is a 24 volt 17K Sherpa brand "Steed" model. I opted for wire rope to keep the military look as much as possible even though it's not 100% correct.
The ECV-compatible winch plate is Sherpa specific and is from Military Truck Works in...
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