Hello guy's. I am picking up my Warn 16.5ti Thermometric winch tomorrow and i'm trying to figure out what would be a good way to go about attaching it to the truck. .

I want to do a receiver hitch ideally, so I can transfer front to back. . But I have a concern placing the load into the receiver tubing through one connection point is not sufficient. . or is it? I can build and fabricate no problem. Just need some more input on this, as I am not school'd at all on the weight capacities of a hitch. . or winch receiver plates for that matter. I'm looking for an idea to build a plate to handle that stress, I have a good design but wanna see what others have done.

I have a 1990 F350 with 44" boggers. So I definitely need that winch, but will the hitch on the back of the truck take 16,500 lbs of pull force? even before doubling the line with a ****** block... I pull people out with a strap all the time at full throttle to "bounce" them out, but again, no idea how much force is there, It is a 30,000 lb strap so?

Im going to fabricate a front hitch using square 1/4 wall tubing, probably going to recess one of the tubes all the way through the engine cross member to be dead sure it will hold. But if someone has a good front receiver picture I could copy I'd like that also. I have a shackle reversal in the front so space might change things a bit. I might cut that cross bar off the put a hitch unit there and the run a crossmember behind it. I don't know yet... thanks! Matt.

 

do a search on it here. i know ed (75f350) posted some pics a while back. him and his buddies use junkyard receiver hitches from vehicles with similar width frames for the front. they slide them into the frame horns and weld them in, you might have to modify your shackle reversal to do it.

as to mounts and how much force they can take, maybe check warn's site to get some info about there multimount setup. i heard its pretty pricy, so since you can fab, i'm just saying take a look and see if the list some specs for it on their site and try to copy off of what they did to achieve the same level of strength.

 

here the big thing is!

 

Well I built a bumper! I decided no on the receiver hitches after lugging the winch for a few minutes~150lbs. So I know in the mud or snow, me carrying that and not losing it down the mountain is not gonna happen! Here is the pics

 

Looks good.

 

Nice. The only problem with the reciever mount is what if you jamb it into a rock on mud for that matter then it either ends up bent of packed full of dirt you have to dig out to install the winch. It also sticks the winch out there a good ways killing your approach angle

 

I like the looks of that.

 

Thanks guys! I'm getting 2 more kc day lighters to go on either side of the winch to fill the gaps. I'm glad I didn't do a receiver hitch after all the reading I've done on it. The bumper is all 1/4 of thicker material, and the tubing is 2" .120 wall dom.

Glad with all the lights and winch I got a high output alternator.

 

huge improvement over the stock bumper and push bar. i hate the 87-91's, but this one is growing on me.

 

Nice work, looks awesome! Can you snap a pic of how you mounted it underneath?

 

that is one seriously bad assss looking truck!


What are the axle/engine specs?

 

I'm kinda interested in how you have that bumper hoooked to the frame too. Mainly because the winch looks a bit high to me, as in, it will provide some leverage on the mounts it used hard. Kindof like when you pull from a drop hitch. If I where to make one, I would make the bottom of the winch sit about the middle of the frame. Would seem to me to provide less leverage on the frame horns. Looks good tho.

 

Looks great, good work man! I would second what Dave said, but let's see how it's mounted first.

 

Only reason I mentioned it was be cause I have two receiver hitches that are shaped kinda like ( when looked at from the bottom. And they are some thick suckers too.

 

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.