Where did you mount the Solenoid? I kind of poked around for a logical place and did not find a satisfactory spot in the engine bay. The fender area looks most promising, but I will need to fab a mounting plate to bolt it to. For now, I have it directly to the battery. I will tap the winch light to something DBT, maybe AUX6.
I put it on the driver side fender. I modified the bracket to make it work, but it has served me well for a few years.
Dangit. And you’re running the same fairlead I am. Couldn’t use a block for redirect?I put a pretty significant side load on a pull and bent the fairlead bracket. Thankfully, I was able to straighten it and I threw several 1.25” corner gussets in (don’t mind the booger welds). I put another side load (though not as bad) and had zero movement.
Looks awesome!!!Just finished this up. Had to drop the mount a half inch to get it to work. Then buy longer M12 x 1.75 bolts to ensure they threaded correctly to the nut. Also had to clearance the mount so that it wouldn’t be touching the intercooler manifolding. If you’re winching there will likely be deflection, especially with the shims, soooooooooo let’s try to save that stuff.
The fairlead that comes with the winch has a smaller opening, but we’re running the Yankum fairlead. So we had to cut that out as well.
Hammerbuilt tells me they are currently redesigning the mount to accommodate the Mishimoto intercooler. And now they will look at the fairlead opening too.
I had the normal Yankum fairlead, but moved to the competition size fairlead for this bracket. No, unfortunately, there was nothing else to anchor to and redirect. It was a bad situation all around.
Ha!! I literally just went there now myself to order the setup because I finally found a bumper I want to use. Then came here through Google searches to ask the same thing. Lol. My hope is that the mount also works with the CVF high mount setup since that's the intercooler I have.
Yeah I’ve been eyeing it since they announced, and I finally have the cash and the need to be able to self-recover now that I’m in CO.
This is the exact reason when I built mine that the fairlead mount has no bends and is also tied into the lateral plate the winch sits on. Hammers design is pretty good, but some of the load paths leave alot to be deisred.I put a pretty significant side load on a pull and bent the fairlead bracket. Thankfully, I was able to straighten it and I threw several 1.25” corner gussets in (don’t mind the booger welds). I put another side load (though not as bad) and had zero movement.
