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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: thermidorthelobster on July 11, 2008, 21:26:09

Title: Got me winch fitted
Post by: thermidorthelobster on July 11, 2008, 21:26:09
...courtesy of a custom winch mount between the chassis rails made by my friend Stuart.  Had great fun angle-grinding the spoiler.

Nice neat job;  would be even more subtle if I could afford a plasma rope & fairlead, but not really worth it.

The blob on the 0 in the number plate is where the joystick plugs in.  Isolator secreted elsewhere to stop people messing around with it.
Title: Re: Got me winch fitted
Post by: mentalmoshio sophs V8i on July 11, 2008, 21:35:12
the series 2 disco looks better like this way i think
Title: Re: Got me winch fitted
Post by: diggerdog36 on July 12, 2008, 09:39:57
Your friend Stuart has done a very good job!!
Ive been looking for ages for something like that, but how do you get to the free-spool lever.
Im looking for the 2003 G4 mounts that sit infront of the bumper, Bram racing have similar ones.
Title: Re: Got me winch fitted
Post by: Jake on July 12, 2008, 09:49:31
Looks great David
You mate has done some nice work there  :D
Quote from: Diggerdog36
Ive been looking for ages for something like that, but how do you get to the free-spool lever.
Im looking for the 2003 G4 mounts that sit infront of the bumper, Bram racing have similar ones
You can buy off the shelf discreet mounts for D2's
They look like this and are distributed Bearmach
 ;)
Title: Re: Got me winch fitted
Post by: thermidorthelobster on July 12, 2008, 10:03:33
Stuart made a neat little coupling for the free spool.  There's a spindle with a cable connected to a wheel which rotates the free spool.  You control it via a 1/2" socket which projects forward through the spoiler, which you can just about see in the photo.  It's a neat solution, easier than it sounds  but took some engineering to make it work!
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