2K54X4 's Frontier build thread

[CoastalDefender]

Did you have any trouble mounting your winch? And did you have to completely remove your bumper to do it?

By trouble, I am referring to Mark's requisite re-wiring of his Warn M8000.

 

[2K54X4]

Yea, it seems KMA is very functional but a little rough around the edges, where the Shrock stuff is real clean! But we need a rear bumber from them!

Oh yea - Nice Truck! This is a very clean build and lots of design cues to take away from this thread. Thanks for posting.

Thanks! I hope fully will have more things completed by next weekend. :smiley_drive:

 

[2K54X4]

Did you have any trouble mounting your winch? And did you have to completely remove your bumper to do it?

By trouble, I am referring to Mark's requisite re-wiring of his Warn M8000.

Definitely have to remove the bumper to mount it, but it wasn't really any trouble. The hardest part was getting the 200+ lbs. of bumper/winch back up to remount. The way that the solenoid mounts to the winch did require me to relocate, but it wasn't a big deal.

 

[articulate]

By trouble, I am referring to Mark's requisite re-wiring of his Warn M8000.

By the way, you can now get a simple plug-in extension cable for the Warn. Maybe it's always been available, but the boys at Shrockworks sent me an email about it. You don't have to dink around with the wiring.

I can't remember exactly why we chose to re-wire the thing instead of just clip the wires and solder in the length required . . . memory and margaritas, man. Maybe we thought it was easier that way.

 

[The BN Guy]

Yeah those things get very heavy with that winch in there. I plan on going winch rope sometime to help save some weight, not to mention taking stress of the torsion bars!

 

[2K54X4]

By the way, you can now get a simple plug-in extension cable for the Warn. Maybe it's always been available, but the boys at Shrockworks sent me an email about it. You don't have to dink around with the wiring.

I can't remember exactly why we chose to re-wire the thing instead of just clip the wires and solder in the length required . . . memory and margaritas, man. Maybe we thought it was easier that way.

I still kick myself for not going with the wireless remote from the get-go. I still need to get one hooked up... I'll add that to my long list of stuff to do.

Yeah those things get very heavy with that winch in there. I plan on going winch rope sometime to help save some weight, not to mention taking stress of the torsion bars!

Yeah. A friend on each end,and a floor jack and me in the middle! I'm in no big hurry to go through that again.

 

[The BN Guy]

I carried mine by myself through about twenty feet of offroad shop. Everyone else was either not paying attention or working on something else. Yep, I'll never do that again.

 

[2K54X4]

New pics of my newly installed hardware:

Defender offroad rack
Piaa 540's
KC Series 26 reverse lights
Procomp 7089 16X8 wheels

 

[2K54X4]

Continued....

 

[bigdog]

wow, that looks really sick! You should be very proud. Did you wind up doing much trimming after you got the new wheels installed?

 

[2K54X4]

Yeah, I started the cut about level with the bottom of the door trim. Then I just pretty much followed the curve of the wheel well down. So it ended up being about 2" wide at the bottom. It ended up being plenty for now. Although I imagine when it comes time for new tires I will have to trim a little more as I don't have a lot of room to spare. It wasn't as unerving as I thought it would be to cut it. The Dremel made quick easy work of it.

 

[CoastalDefender]

Do you have a closeup of the cutting by chance?

 

[mcm4090]

How do you have the light wired?

 

[2K54X4]

Do you have a closeup of the cutting by chance?

I will get you one tomorrow morning.

 

[2K54X4]

How do you have the light wired?

I drilled a hole in the side of my existing rack's leg and underneath it through the roof. I ran the wires through the holes down the door molding into the engine. I put a grommet in each of the holes and siliconed them making them watertight. Everything on the outside I wire loomed and electrical taped, and then wire tied to the rack.

I will also get a pic tomorrow of this.