Outer Limits 4x4 Board

have recently fitted a winch bar with winch and have noticed some up and down movement under force. Eg whene did some winch testing as soon as loaded up the bar lifted some couple inches, also when was out bush i scraped the edge of an embankement ans as it loaded a little the bar lifted, but cannot lift the bar using man power, is this normal?? or do i have a problem.

what vehicle, what bar?

If it returns to original position after being "loaded up", it's just flex in chassis rails/mounting hardware.

I've lifted my Zook off the ground by winching stinkin' luxes horizontally with no movement of the winch bar (which I made ).
If I were you I'd be checking the size of the mounting holes or the mounts themselves.

Jas.

sounds like your mountin holes may be larger than the bolt diameter , have had this and didnt cause any major probs on a patrol

Most bars do bounce around. I worked as a vehicle fitter at ARB and all of the new utes i.e. rodeo, hilux bt50 etc bounced around just driving on the road. There is lots of flex in new vehicles chassis. Older ladder frame chassis such as patrols arent as bad but they are mounted directly to the car, in my opinion this is much stronger.

They do move under winching snatching load. Rotation is not uncommon on Discoverys at least. Its basically a mismatch in the mounting holes. I wouldn't swet too much about it unless it is contacting your guards, if it's doing this I'm pretty sure you can oversize the bolts. Doing the bolts up FT helps a little, but its really just masking a problem that is still there.

Slunnie wrote:They do move under winching snatching load. Rotation is not uncommon on Discoverys at least. Its basically a mismatch in the mounting holes. I wouldn't swet too much about it unless it is contacting your guards, if it's doing this I'm pretty sure you can oversize the bolts. Doing the bolts up FT helps a little, but its really just masking a problem that is still there.

sweet, cheers for that slunnie, it doesn't cause any probs for me just lifts a little and realistically it probably only lifts an inch at the top of the bar so movement at mounting point would be quite small.

thanks everyone else too, for your input.
wierd thing when i looked the other day "slunnies" and "jhoebloe's" were the only replies, but now there are more but were made before slunnies and joeblo's, whats the go with that.

too much wacky!