Winch mounting
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Lol no. I used to have a built f250 with a 351. That truck has a 460 fuel injected with bolt ons. Axles have 538 's power lock front and posi rear. Detroits are being saved for.
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Im glad you didnt go the receiver route because that beast would rip a receiver right off. The receiver/winch setups max out at about 8k. Anything over 8k and you need some serious heavy metal mounts that are bolted to the frame with plenty of metal. A winch like that will rip a truck off of its buried axles before it will stop pulling.
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With great power comes great responsibility.
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Sorry guys, I'll get some pics when I have the bumper off. To tie it to the frame I used a 7 x 12 piece of 5/16 plate on each frame horn, and gusseted on the front with angle iron and triangles. welded all the way around, and bolted through. I then used two 4 x4 1/4 angle iron pieces 8 long ontop of the plate to serve as a bracket. I coped the angle iron into a 10 x 40 long 1/4 chunk of channel. Triple pass welds on everything. All the joints are gusseted. I put the winch up so high because I do water crossings very often so I tried the best I could to keep it unsubmerged.
What part of Kootenai County are you from. I'm down in Lewiston.
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I am in Couerdalene! good to here there are some others from Idaho on here.
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