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Custom Winch for your Feroza / Rocky! |
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Written by Ross Mclean
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:46 |
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Having made excuses on lack of supercharger progress because of the winch, thought I would include a Daihatsu Feroza / Daihatsu Rocky / Daihatsu Sportrak winch progress photo. 
It's a 9500LB unit ( yes its big - but the price was right ), and just squeezes in behind the front bar. 
The grey bits are the winch cradle Built from scratch which is effectively two 6mm end plates ( matching the bar profile ) that pick up strengthened bar mounts - joined by 25x50mm thick wall RHS sections which actually cary the winch. RHS strengthed by solid bushes where the winch mounting bolts are fitted and 45 Deg. braces at the ends. All bolts are now Grade 8 as the ones fitted were about Grade 0 much to my surprise. The control box won't fit under the bumper as on larger vehicles, so extension cables fitted with the solenoids in the engine bay. This also makes it immune to vandals ( well.. I hope ). The clutch handle as shown has been replaced with a hex drive shaft, allowing the standard wheel brace to reach through a hole in the bar to engage / disengage the winch clutch. Standard alternator is a worry but a battery upgrade is a definite, with an alternator close behind. Interested in a similar project, click on Haasa's "Hoist installation in the Daihatsu Feroza" |
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Last Updated on Friday, 25 November 2005 12:32 |