[DAB]

ok. there is a whole heap of info on this site. and most is about sierras which
brings me to the point. .. anyone got a suggestion guide on making a winch bar
and where to attach to a shorty vitara?

maybe ive been missing it reading through the threads but there are a hell of alot of them

[tassie jeeper]

step 1: remove front bumper.
step 2: create a mounting cradle for your winch.
step 3: "u may need help with this one" hold the winch and cradle up under your grill and take measurements for the chassis mounting plates.
step 4: add the chassis plates to the winch cradle and fit it to the car.
step 5: bend up a piece of 50mm pipe 3mm wall to fit around the lower part of your grill and back to your wheel arches and fix it to the cradle.
step 6: take another piece of pipe can be 50mm again or a bit smaller 40mm (depending on what u think looks right) and make a piece that from your headlight to down below your winch cradle across underneath it and back up the other side.
step 7: make a support bracket from where the front wish bones are mounted to the lower pipe on bull bar and plate it in this will act like a skid plate.
step 8: remove bull bar finish all welds off and tidy for aesthetics then take it to your local powder-coater.

if you have experience with a welder and are mechanically minded you should be able to accomplish this in a weekend. best of luck with it and post photos.

[tassie jeeper]

i hope to make a bull bar for my vit soon, no winch cradle in mine as i do not require it.
here are some images of things similar to what i am describing:









EDIT: fixed pictures^^

[Gwagensteve]

tassie jeeper wrote:

i hope to make a bull bar for my vit soon, no winch cradle in mine as i do not require it.
here are some images of things similar to what i am describing:




http://www.suzuki-forums.com/gallery/im ... Bumper.jpg

[tassie jeeper]

Quote:

Gwagensteve

thanks for fixing that for me.
i do not have a photo sharing account on any pages.
can u show me how to link photos like above with URL?
that might make everyone elses life a bit easier.

[atari4x4]

hit the [IMG] button when you go to the full editor/reply screen then paste the link in between.

[tassie jeeper]

just trying something yere see if it works

[shandy92]

while the topic is current, any one got any good pics of some decent mounts? There is virtually nothing on the front of the swb chassis to have a good solid mount. Unless you incorporate some U-bolts around the crossmember.

Joe- you would have seen/made something for a swb vit in your time? would you be able to shed some light on these please.

Thanks
Mitch

[tassie jeeper]

don't know if this is of any use to you:

http://nbs4x4club.com/forum/index.php?topic=11508.0
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=35745&view=previous
http://auszookers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=20901
http://auszookers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=37860

[got_bar_work]

Try something like balls sierra mounts in the good tech
there isn't anything strong on any suzuki chassis

[got_bar_work]

How bad would air flow be having the winch up in the grill?

[tassie jeeper]

got_bar_work wrote:

How bad would air flow be having the winch up in the grill?

personally i wouldn't do it with standard radiator but i havent had my zook long enough to know what the radiator is capable of.

[DarkHorse]

I'd hazard a guess that most of us block a good percentage of our grilles with lights and other crap without any negative effects.

I seem to recall reading that significantly more air gets to the radiator from beneath anyway... but I can't remember where or how I came across that...

[SierraDan]

MOAR!!

[DAB]

cant believe how well the question got answered. by the sounds of thing meny
people was after a little inspiration. thanks all. when I get round to making mine
ill try to document a detailed step by step for others to follow and improve on