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Just to be clear. I am not saying you need a slow winch....I am just saying you don't need a fast one.

I agree. I think that balance is a 130-160amp alternator, a group 34 battery or larger, and just about any modern winch that retails for about $400-500 or more. That will cover about 99% of the people, and use, you would see on a vehicle that is less than 6000lbs. Even companies like...

UA is fun, it is a great overall test of the vehicle....and the people. The hard part is knowing when to stop winching because the electrical system is run down. Some modern vehicles will give you an idiot light. The modern voltmeter is pretty useless, and if the alternator is charging it...

We had more than one vehicle on last year 2015 Ultimate Adventure trip have issues with keeping the battery charged when winching. They would pull long enough that the voltage would drop low enough that the fuel injection computer/ignition would shut down. I can't say if all the vehicles had...

How fast do people REALLY need to recover? Are we all secretly European winch challenge competitors? While I love old upright winches with a passion, they just don't fit on most vehicles, especially modern ones. Just about all the $500 and up winches are getting pretty dang good for the...

Thank you. I am trying to up my fabrication game a little bit on this build. You have to keep learning.... I think the upper plates will make the mounts a lot stronger for the weight. I can't imagine them breaking now. I am really liking working with this 10 gauge cold roll 1018 plate. It's...

Thank you. I still have it. Nobody has shown up with a fist full of cash just yet.

Motor Mounts Part 2 How can something as simple as motor mounts take two days to fab!?! I started out by adding a top gusset to the motor mounts. This was to provide front to back stability to the mount. Because of the design of the main mounting plates, I had to bend the little tongue over...

Thank you. I think the Johnny-type-Joints will be interesting to use. I got the idea from here... http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/general-4x4-discussion/1420826-savvy-currie-koh-mod-jk-3.html#post20437577 My hope is that they allow some misalignment rotation when assembling things....and to...

Motor Mounts Part 1 Sometimes the little things take the largest amount of time. This is how I burned up my Saturday... More paper templates. I am using 1018 Cold Roll 10 gauge plate. I had the steel supplier cut the sheet in to 2x4 panels. That is a good size for me to move around. Note...

A quick round two on the engine mount mockup this evening... I changed the lengths of the mounts slightly to make the relationship to the frame the same. I also dropped them slightly to get the mount close to the frame corner. This should make the frame side of the mount fairly minimal and...

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While I would love to play with a set, I think the the car would just be too tall. I am half way lamenting about having to run 2-3" of 'lift' right now to clear the 40" tires. Some day I would like to design a chassis from scratch that could use portal axles with a very low stance and high...

Engine, Transmission, and Transfer Case positioning.... Now it is time to go over the process and the issues I had when setting the powertain position. This picture basically sums up 90% of the complications I had with the position of the powertrain in the chassis. This picture is looking...

Body to Frame and engine setting catchup... I figured I would do another summary of where I am at with the body/chassis/powertrain juggling..... After pulling the spring and rubber bumpstops out of the chassis, I basically stared by leveling the it the best I could on my not-level concrete...

Last night was arts and crafts! I started off in the computer however. I use solidoworks for most of my designing in the box mainly. I am lucky enough to have collected a fair number of files over the years from here and there to work with. Once I have a design in solidworks I like, I...

How about adding alloy shafts? From my research, that seems to fix the spline twisting and breaking issue for the most part. http://www.justdifferentials.com/AXTFF-FJ80-p/axtff-fj80.htm or http://www.rdmoffroad.com/polyperformance-toyotafj60andfj80full-floatrearaxleshaftspair.aspx The...

To summarize what I have done with the body so far. I brought this up from Arizona. It is in decent condition for a 45 year old tub, but not perfect. Then this happened! I swear it just fell in half like that.... Then I removed what was left of the old toolbox under the drivers seat...

Sorry.... This project just kinda happened. I had my heart set on doing something else that I have been designing for a few years, but I just couldn't get it to go like I wanted. In a fit of frustration and with a fistful of cash I ended up here.

Thank you. Keep an eye on the new build, it should be pretty dang nifty when it is done.