Fairey Winch Plate Mountings

[Penguinius]

Hello there guys and gals - I've lurked here for a while, Now I could do with some advice.

After Biting the bullet and deciding that enough plates have been welded to the underside of my Series 3 and a new chassis is on call. This morining I removed the Capstan on the front and as I came to remove the Mounting plate for it I hit a snag,

The Bolts that hold it on the front crossmember are screwed into what look like expanding nuts of some kind, Anyone know where I can get my hands on some of these for the new chassis or does anyone have any better suggestions for mounting the winch as I obviously don't want to compromise on strength for the winch mount.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[Devon-Rover]

Hello.

Yes you can get the 'Riv' nut's at any specalist nut and bolt shop.

You can use those and for the standard capstan that'll do the job. Else you could drill right through the front crossmember, and with use of a spreader plate 5 mill odd bit of steel plate. to the near size of the rear face of the crossmember. you could bolt straight through the crossmember and so providing enough strength.

[Canada Al]

if you have to drill through the cross member you need to fit tubes into the holes so you don't crush the box section . I don't rate riv-nuts my self and would use tubes thru or angle seam welded to the cross member .