No fairlead?
No fairlead?
"You know, this car is so fast, that giving Corvette owners this car, is kinda like giving an AK-47 to a pysch ward."
-Ron Fellows (Corvette C6R Team Driver)
no he couldn't figure out how to build it
Originally Posted by afroman006
Creighton, you have done stuff with that jeep that would make a goat go "holy ****!"
Or just hasn't had time...
If you want to make fun of tommy, his excuse for leaving Alto early was the sub-60 degree temperatures being too cold
Born to Kill
I just watched a spider dominate a fly on the wall outside, i thought would would travis do? and i did the opposite, spider lives!
Even with a fairlead I would not run the winch line like that down to your recovery hook. See how the wire is tight against the front edge of the bumper. You brush that against a tree/rock or rub your nose on the ground when coming off a steep incline and you are looking at replacing your brand new winch wire before you ever used it.
Hope you have better luck with the Smittybuilt then JB did. I know there price tags are enticing but that reflects on their quality.
Yeah, I just have the wire like that until I build my fairlead mount. The reason I went with the smittybilt besides it's price was I saw them send zach a brand new one when his broke. I figure I can use it till it breaks and then they'll send me a new one. I never wheel alone so I should be fine.
oh, and it was 43 degrees and raining, and there was no one there.
You should have went to muddi gras at General Sams, I heard it was wild
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
"It's not cheating if you pay for it"
Made out of creightons favorite material....
you do realize that you are spending more time drawing it on a computer than it would take most people to just make it out of steel?
"You know, this car is so fast, that giving Corvette owners this car, is kinda like giving an AK-47 to a pysch ward."
-Ron Fellows (Corvette C6R Team Driver)
The computer drawing looks good man. Keep up the fire.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." — Robert Heinlein
The first batch (I.e. mine and JB's) were good winches but the had issues with the sideplate and situation knob. I think smitty has done some major quality control and is now making truly excellent stuff. Shop back home says they have more warns coming in for warranty work than smitty's, which is pretty impressive.
did they mention how many more warns they sell and if the warranty percentage is in the same range or not?
Dunno about the percentage but I do know that they are a big smitty dealer.
The fairlead mount doesn't have to be that complicated. 1/4" tabs, no bracing really necessary. Boom, done.
On the 8th day god created the Super Swamper TSL and said "go forth and kick ass"
I don't live where my truck is, im in the corps, and i am still in school. I don't have alot of time to go over there. It only took me 5 min to make on the computer.
sharpe, I asked in a separate thread but no one replied as to how to build it. I haven't really looked on other trucks, I don't know how beefy I need it.
Last edited by TdmayfieldIV; 03-06-2011 at 04:22 PM.
bring it to cleburne, my kids need a turd to polish
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