I don't know whether I'll be able to give you the whole story here, but I'll let you know a bit about what I went through to finally get a winch on my truck. Likely it will be a few installments.
It started last year with my father-in-law looking at the wide open front bumper and telling me I needed a winch to fill the spot. Of course I do, but with all the other priorities this one was just not near the top of the list.
He wandered out to his shed and came back with a monstrous 10,000 pound winch that original was mounted on his 3/4 ton Jeep pickup in the late seventies, which he was kind enough to give me.
While I was very grateful for the gift, for it put me 100% ahead of where I started, I had some reservations. This thing was huge and heavy, more than one person could lift into place. Also, the depth of it was about 15" so I had some serious fitting problems, because there is about 9.5" between the bumper and the grille. The body of the winch was aluminum with a built-in press-fit fairlead, 3 out 4 rollers of which were totally jammed.
So I sat on the project for a year or so, thinking along the way how I could fit it, and how I could free up or cut off the fairlead.
In the meantime I came across a fellow who asked if I knew where he could find a heavy duty winch for a mini logging and farming operation. He had a bush bumper and a lighter duty winch for a chev pickup that he would trade. I told him about my 10,000 pounder, he said his was a Warn 8000 pounder and a deal was struck, pending a call to my father-in-law.
My father-in-law was gracious, commenting that he thought the Jeep winch was too big for the truck, and suggesting that I proceed with the trade.
The Warn winch turned out to be a rather grubby, but not leaking, Warn 8274, with the solenoid switches removed and replaced by a single lead to a single solenoid.
The reputation of this is winch one of the best in the business, so I came away from the deal feeling pretty good, but most of the work was still ahead of me.
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