Outer Limits 4x4 Board

anyone got a pto winch on their 2.8 rugger/rocky? needing some info about one just got one off trademe and need info to make sure everythings there for it . cheers

You should have, winch in cradle, drive shaft, PTO unit, and actuation cable. In addition, you should also have a gear, this is the gear that goes into your transfer case, (it replaces a spacer) that drives the PTO unit. The drive shaft goes through the hole in the front cross member, and there should be a support with a long bar with 2 holes in it. This bar goes across under the bellhousing, and bolts to the 2 small bolts at the bottom of the bellhousing. You will have to drill a hole in the floor beside the handbrake lever, for the actuation cable.

Make sure you have a perfect rubber on the bottom side of that cable. You dont want ANY mud/gunk getting into the cable, as it will gum up quite quickly, and is near impossible to clean out, or get a replacement. Thats my problem at the moment, that cable is stuffed up, and I am in the process of building a direct lever to activate the PTO.

Have a look through the site listed below, look for Davids pictures, and you will see some pics of a PTO winch both off, and on a Rocky.

How's the Factory PTO? does it really deliver what it suppose to to?
Sorry for asking a silly question as i was reading the owner's manual lying around in my car and was surprised it says that it's rated for 750kg single line pull. And they recommend not to exceed more than 1.2 tonnes anytime or the sheer pin will break.

I wonder if the factory PTO is the same PTO u see on the Land Cruiser 60 series and what are the toyota PTOs rated to pull.

The PTO works great. I have recovered a 100 series landcruiser bogged to the chassis rails in thick mud, and a Nissan Navara immediately afterwards. We set up a 3-1 pull for the landcruiser, and my Rocky was chained to a tree behind it. Using 1st and 2nd gear makes for a nice slow even pull.
I have used the winch in numerous instances both for self recovery, and recovering others on club runs. Its never let me down (except for my current actuation cable problem.)
I have just replaced the winch cable. I reckon standard length was 40 metres, I have just loaded 50 metres of 8mm onto the drum, and reckon another 20 metres would easily fit onto it. But I carry a 30 metre winch extension strap. This, along with the snatch block, and a few shackles gives me heaps of scope for recoveries.
As for the stated capacity, you need to work around this (even though I dont think its a problem) and plan accordingly (with the appropriate gear carried)
My winch is the best $560 I have spent on my Rocky- after my 2 lockers.

If the factory PTO is rated at 750kg my 5000lb Runva winch (used with a snatch block) should be plenty to pull my 1300kg Fez out?? i mounted a winch on mine months ago but have never got stuck enough yet to need it... best ive done with it is pull a couple of fence posts out on the farm.

was going to use it to recover a stuck Bighorn a few months ago but it snatched no problem so i never got to play with it.

So u're trying to say the recovery u did were done with a snatch block and not a single line pull.

I know PTOs are good in the right hand as back in Malaysia there's a big switch from electrics to PTOs.

I used the snatch block at the time, due to the weight of landcruiser, and how badly it was stuck. I left it set up for the Nissan recovery. If I am doing a self recovery, then a straight line pull is more than adequate. I have been bogged to the chassis rails, and a straight line pull is easy and quick to set up.