[monley]

Guys,

I'm am half way into fitting my winch, went to put the fairlead, and it won't go on. There is not enough room between the inside of the bar and the winch to get the nut in there to bolt the fairlead on as shown on this picture here.



Second issue is shown on this picture here




I can't do the bold up cus the fair lead is in the way, i would move it up by re-drilling the holes, but then there would be no way of bolting it on once again cus if the first issue




SO what do i need to put the fairlead on?

A off-set fairlead? or am i doing something wrong?


Cheers,

Andy

[SierraDan]

Issue 1.
Can the fiarlead nut go in before the winch? Or there there no physical room in any way?

Issue 2.
Grind off the some of the fairlead.

[monley]

SierraDan wrote:

Issue 1.
Can the fiarlead nut go in before the winch? Or there there no physical room in any way?

Issue 2.
Grind off the some of the fairlead.

I have been told not to grind the fairlead down by the guy at me local 4wd shop.

And no there is not physical room to put the nut on, with out the bolt going in on a angle.

[atari4x4]

1.
buy an ARB bar?

2.
was it smiffkid at your local 4wd shop?

can you grind down the fairlead nut so it's "low profile"

the fair lead should be in line with the bottom of the drum so the rope comes straight out.

[turbo_deo]

Point the fairlead bolt outwards so you only have the head near the winch, as for grinding the fairlead I would ask dank rather than your local guy

[monley]

Just had a look in google, and this picture come up, is that a off set failead? Cus that would solve my issue

[joeblow]

Instead of using bolts get some allen key cap screws.

[steve125]

The bolt at the bottom of the pics, can that be used to attach the fairlead?

[alien]

cant you just rotate it 180 degrees and use that bolt?

[jimny_timmy]

alien wrote:

cant you just rotate it 180 degrees and use that bolt?

x2... Looks possible from the pic anywyas, and it looks like that's the way it is in the other "offset" picture?

[atari4x4]

jimny_timmy wrote:

alien wrote:

cant you just rotate it 180 degrees and use that bolt?

x2... Looks possible from the pic anywyas, and it looks like that's the way it is in the other "offset" picture?

i think you'll find that the fairlead is symmetrical.

[jimny_timmy]

atari4x4 wrote:

jimny_timmy wrote:

alien wrote:

cant you just rotate it 180 degrees and use that bolt?

x2... Looks possible from the pic anywyas, and it looks like that's the way it is in the other "offset" picture?

i think you'll find that the fairlead is symmetrical.

Agreed, just called it offset so he knew which pic lol

[atari4x4]

so rotating his fairlead 180* isn't going to change a thing.

[jimny_timmy]

Ahhh I get what you mean now lol my bad... Sat night man brains switched off haha

[MART]

Looks like your hoarse fairlead is upside down , the bolts that hold the winch generally have the same centres as the winch mounts , a better picture would help from the front , Cheers Paul.

[zooky08]

I can't really see how much the bolt is touching the fairlead in pic 2, but why can't that bolt be done up with a spanner?

[dank]

Couple of options:

Option 1: Space the winch back with some washers to fit the bolt head. Been done plenty of times and is effective

Option 2: Bolt the fairlead to the bottom mounting point of the winch and cut the bar plate out of the way so it only rubs on the fairlead if its in the way. This is how mine was on my ARB bar.

Option 3: Use an offset hawse fairlead.

Monkey if you want to, you can keep your fairlead and I will do you an offset one for 50% off which is $85 -50% + $10 postage = $52.50.

[monley]

dank wrote:

Couple of options:

Option 1: Space the winch back with some washers to fit the bolt head. Been done plenty of times and is effective

Option 2: Bolt the fairlead to the bottom mounting point of the winch and cut the bar plate out of the way so it only rubs on the fairlead if its in the way. This is how mine was on my ARB bar.

Option 3: Use an offset hawse fairlead.

Monkey if you want to, you can keep your fairlead and I will do you an offset one for 50% off which is $85 -50% + $10 postage = $52.50.

I will do that! Thanks heaps Dan.


And thanks for your help every one, much appreciated.

Cheers,

Andy.

[dank]

No probs mate thats what we're here for!

[monley]

Off-set fair lead works much better!

Thanks again Dan!

[smiffkid]

u can grind your fair lead, but having the offset 1 works well, so no need to

[joe5701]

monkey wrote:

Off-set fair lead works much better!

Thanks again Dan!

does it get hot much with hwy driving?

[monley]

Joe: No! Not all, even on the beach the temp gauge didn't even move a bit.

[joe5701]

it looks tuff, just thought she may lack a bit of air intake.

[atari4x4]

i was thinking the same thing with the lights & winch controller there + the stock bumper has a couple of decent air dams in it that are now gone.

[stockman]

What size winch monkey?

[monley]

stockman wrote:

What size winch monkey?

9000lb

[stockman]

You running dual battery?

[monley]

stockman wrote:

You running dual battery?

no! Got no room