Winch plate

[Patty]

Bought a winch of my mate today and was looking to mount it on my current bumper with some sort of tray or plate as want to keep the bumper as has my spotlight brackets welded on in the perfect place i want them was wondering if anyone had any ideas or pic of ones they had made?

[Range Rover Blues]

Once upon a time you could buy a discrete winch mount that looks like a steering guard for the RRC.

[wizard]

I think Bearmach still make them.


wizard :twisted:

[clbarclay]

I made a winch mount to go behind the bumper of my RRC. This incorperated recovery points inline with the chassis rails, so mounted round the front of the chassis to the outside of it as well as the inside for strength. As a result the standard bumper mounts could no longer be used, so I cut them up and welded the bumper mounting brackets to the tray.

Its been a while since I looked at the mounts on the back of a discovery's bumper, though IIRC they may have a similar seperate bracket between the bumper and chassis. Other wise just mount the winch tray inside the chassis rails and leave a gap either side for the bumper brackets to still fit.

I raised the bumper to match a body lift which allowed the base of the winch plate to sit between the existing bumper mounting bolts. mounting the winch plate bellow these bolts will lower fairlead height to avoid cutting too much out of lower bumpers.






You can also see I extended the winch mount backwards to use the mounting holes further back on the chassis. The mount is held by 6 high tensile M12 bolts, 4 of which are in double shear. That mount is going no where without atleast part of the chassis :lol: I also added so short lenghts of scrap box section to the sides for defender style hilift jacking points


This one (not mine) just mounts inside the chassis rails and hangs lower

[Patty]

Thankyou for the ideas was wondering if you had any dimensions and sizes for when you made yours up?

[Devon-Rover]

I think Bearmach still make them.


wizard :twisted:

Thumbing through the latest BM catalouge i can confirm that they do still.

[clbarclay]

Thankyou for the ideas was wondering if you had any dimensions and sizes for when you made yours up?

Most of the dimensions are a case of making it fit the vehicles chassis rather than being a generic fit, so items like the width will vary a little. but its not like the HD winch bumper on a firends disco, which you can shake it by the A bar and it moves against the chassis.

The winch tray is made from 100*100*6 box section, cut into 2 angles and welded together to give a 200*80*6 channel. The front half was tapered from either side of the fairlead to match the winches shape and bring it nearer the front of the chassis. I made a template out of card to determine the size and shape of the side plates. This then got computer modeled, tweeked, printed out at 1:1 scale, stuck on the steel to cut around.

Most of the dimensions for bits like the jacking points and recovery eyes were a case of using what I had to hand and makeing it "fit where it touches"