Winch mounting opinion

[nolimits]

FYI I made up a baby cable with some left overs for my install. As you can see it’s about 30” but it has the straight connectors on both ends (I ran out of the 90’s). You could bend down with pliers being careful in the process.

Anyhow you can have for free if you want it. I’m in MO and can do a local pickup somewhere, usually in STL or KC every 1-2 weeks. If out of state, send me a few bucks for shipping and I can drop in the mail to you.

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[bronco_ed]

Below is some chicken scratch of a wiring scheme based on how I did my own adapted for your quick disconnects.

There might be a few things you need that you hadn’t thought of yet…..

1. Your positive power will terminate to one of the large posts on your relay. Then you will need a “baby cable” to go from the other large post to the battery. I think mine was around 24-30” in length.

2. You will want a 90 degree lug on one end of the baby cable. I bought some and cut to length and used big crimpers to do my own. If you want to order from BatteryCablesUSA.com they have quality stuff for reasonable prices and can put 90 degree lugs on (just put a note in the comment box when you order). if you don’t do a 90, you will have to cut the red cover flap on the battery.

3. Depending which positive battery terminal you want to land on you will need an M5 or M6 nut. I optioned for the M6 as it was bigger but I bought SS flanged nuts with nylon inserts in both sizes so I’d have for any future projects. As you can see in my pics, the flange isn’t as large as the ones on the factory nuts but good enough. These were a bear to find locally and I ordered through BoltsandNuts.com as you can order smaller quantities and I had an assortment of things I needed.

4. I landed the negative cable in the BMS post coming off the battery. There is an open hole and an M8 bolt fits perfect. I used a 25mm length (1”) but could have gone with a 20mm to make it a little shorter. I coupled with an M8 flanged nut with nylon lock. Again all SS.

5. Some 14-16 garage wiring to run the positive and negative trigger wires. I put ring terminals on both ends of the negative and landed on an existing body ground mount. I put a ring terminal on the end of the positive that lands on the relay and then spliced into non-powered circuit C. If you tie in like I did then you use the factory wiring to splice into whichever auxiliary switch you choose. Alternatively you could run a new wire. I have Baja Design fog lights in my bumper but used the factory harness and don’t plan on using circuit C for anything else.

5. Misc butt splices. May consider weather packs or deutsche style connectors at the AUX wires in lieu of splices. I chose weather packs which will allow me to quickly disconnect and reconnect to different aux switches if my future needs require a change. Good crimpers makes life easier for butt splices and if you do weather packs or deutsche style connectors you will need to make sure you have the right crimpers for those as well.

6. Cable ties of various sizes to help with cable management.

7. Other items already mentioned — sleeving, liquid electrical tape, etc

Yea I realize there are a few other things. I guess I was looking at the “bigger” items.

I have plenty of items for automotive wiring in garage. I even thought of making the pictured harness myself but would have to order the 2gauge cables and fittings…


There is a retired local fellow that made it at good price using American made components out of his garage.
I will just need to pick up a 90 end battery cable local aside from the isolator I have the rest…


Thanks for the response and information.

 

[bronco_ed]

FYI I made up a baby cable with some left overs for my install. As you can see it’s about 30” but it has the straight connectors on both ends (I ran out of the 90’s). You could bend down with pliers being careful in the process.

Anyhow you can have for free if you want it. I’m in MO and can do a local pickup somewhere, usually in STL or KC every 1-2 weeks. If out of state, send me a few bucks for shipping and I can drop in the mail to you.

Thank you very kind….

I should be all set…. I have plenty of automotive electrical wiring, connections, etc in my garage

Thanks again!

 

[Tricky Mike]

What wireless controller do you use?

It's the stock Warn VR one.

 

[Maximus-3]

I don't think this is off-topic, but....
Why is everyone so worked up about adding a manual/external shut-off to the winch and/or a way to "unplug" it? What am I missing here?

What about this?

 

[bronco_ed]

Just realized I never posted that I finished. I did go with the 500amp solenoid/fuse and wired to aux switch.

Also used an Anderson Plug, just in case I did not want to leave the winch on all of the time. In addition I can unplug and plug some other item in if ever needed.
ie, jumper cables, air Compressor, etc.
Picture of plug is pre “zip tied”

Thanks all for the suggestions during the process.

The winch was just sitting in the garage collecting dust. Glad I can use it.




Ed

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