4.2 MOUNTING THE WINCH
(please refer to Fig. 3).
1) Install a suitable mounting bumper, or mounting plate in the required position. The winch must be mounted with the direction of
pull perpendicular to the mounting bolt fixings. The steel plate should be at least 6mm thick.
2) Attach fairlead (4-Way Roller type for wire rope or Aluminium Hawse for Synthetic Rope) to mounting plate using two nuts (9) and
bolts (1) with flat (7) and spring washers (8).
3) Insert the four square nuts (2) into the pockets at the base of the winch frame.
4) Thread the four high tensile bolts (5) with flat (3) and spring (4) washers up through the mounting plate and into the square nuts in
the winch. Tighten the mounting bolts to a torque setting of 60 Nm.
5) The supplied bolts are the correct length for installation on a 6-7mm plate. Other thicknesses may require bolts of a different length.
Use at least 8.8 grade high tensile bolts, the thread length should be sufficiently long to fully engage the square nut but must not
bottom out on the top of the pocket in the winch frame.
6) Feed the end of the wire rope through the roller fairlead (6) and attach the clevis hook or with a synthetic rope with fixed
hook, feed the drum end of the synthetic rope through the hawse from the front and attach to the drum using the allen head
cap screw finger tight only, ready for spooling onto the drum.
Fig. 3
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