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[Battle bus]

Hi all just got a winch and I'm going yo make my own mtg.
Does a standard winch mtg bolt on using the bumper bolt holes only does anyone have a picture of mtg fitted please

[martinrh]

The capstan winch on mine is fitted to a base plate with 6 x M8 bolts going horizontally into rivnuts fitted into the front cross member.
Then 6 more nuts and bolts vertically into the front bumper. It seems fairly solid.
The plate is shown in the attached.
Hope this helps

[martinrh]

And fitted

[autorover1]

The standard front bumper & its mountings are not strong enough for any but the smallest of winches. All the LR approved front mounted ones  use No 2  cross member  ( Under the front panel) for the main attachment point . Mayflower did make a stronger front bumper but it did not alter the rear mounting requirement . Pic of the LR hydraulic with Mounting plate no 57 which was attached to No  2 cross member with 6 fixings

[Craig T]

My series one has evidence that a capstan winch was once fitted. The front chassis crossmember has been drilled right through in 4 or 5 places and long bolts fitted through the crossmember from the engine side.
There is then a number of holes in the top of the bumper for the mounting plate and more holes close to the bumper for the cast fairlead brackets.

Craig.

[oddjob]

It seems surprising that the LR recommendation was to attach the winch into that crossmember just with rivnuts but I guess the force isn’t trying to pull the rivnuts out forwards, it’s a twisting force trying to pull them vertically up the crossmember.

My electric winch is mounted to a big lump of L shaped metal with rivnuts to the crossmember and 4 bolts through the front bumper. It’s had some big forces pulling through it and it’s not fallen off.

 

[autorover1]

Some series one chassis have tubes welded through the cross member for through bolts which seems the ideal situation . The relevant chassis part numbers are in the parts book and the through tubes if you want separately

[109 fever]

I just mounted mine a month ago.