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I Have a 1984 sierra with a 3 inch body lift and i also have a 6000lb winch which is yet to be mounted.
I am wondering if there are people out there who have mounted a winch on the front of there zooks without having a winch bar.
Has anyone out there done this?
Can you do it with some form of a winch receiver?
I am willing to mount it the same height as the chassis rails.
Any ideas and Pictures of what people have done would be much appreciated.
Or is there someone out there who could knock me up a tube bar for a good price
Cheers
Simon..
Last edited by 84ZOOKSTA on Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Hookers are like bowling balls, You pick them up, put your fingers in them, then throw them in the gutter and they come back for more.
I am not aware of a cradle for mounting a winch bar.
Like most jobs, there is a hard way and an easy way.
The easy way is to weld a really big bit of angle on top of the chassis (flush with the rails. puddle welds work best. Drill this with the pattern to bolt the winch down and cut a slot for the cable to pass through and holes for the fairlead. this will easily fit under your bodywork with a 3" bl. It is very tight with a 2" bl, but possible.
The hard way is to cut out the front xmember, relocate the steering damper and construct a cradle that sits the winch between the rails. This is a fair bit of structural workm and will work best with a RUF to sue the extra chassis length.
Either way, you will need to be able to weld and fab.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
ARB winch and non winch bars mount on all of the factory holes at the end of the chassis, and have crush sleeves through the chassis ends. There is no "cradle," the differences between teh bars are all about mounting the winch.
Note, that if you remove the outrigger bars that the bumper bolts to (and everyone does because they hit the tyres at over 30") then you WILL winch the bar off the front of the car when you load the winch up. This will be even worse is you correct the height for the BL.
I think wither way there will be fab involved.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
