Fitting the winch bumper to the 110 Part 2 

Caught a close up of that bumper and I share your initial disappointment. Rough as hedges.

I hope you remember to tell the owner to properly wind in the winch cable under load, otherwise if they do use it in a real life situation it will probably jam the rope. Yes, nay sayers. It’s happened! Cheers 👍🏻🙏🏽😷🦘

Same weather here in france rather hot ! you are a great couragous guy !! regarding electro mecs ,I don't like the controler box in front of the water spray mixed with salt , and anyway long cables before or after the box does not change the overall lenghts , so would have it in engine compartment on a place protected from rabbish , OK cables have to be changed , but worth it if you intend to have it operational after a winter ( not Affican ) but OK for a showroom

Looking good Mike....bet that winch ends up as an ornament tho'....

Let the customer tighten the winch rope. It'll probably be the only time it gets used.

The main thing with a winch is to test it once a year to make sure it still works, most people fit them and never use them until one day.... I remember getting stuck in the Zambian bush with my cousin, no problem, he had a winch. A winch that didn't work!!

What a pain in the arse. Great work Mike, but seriously what a bloody faff, just so the truck looks a bit meaner. 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Nice job mike. I run my wires to the battery box. With a isolating switch.

A lot of faffing about and extra weight on the vehicle or just drive around the big muddy hole? I know what I'd do...

I still use a capstan, non of that messing.

Boiling hot, around 30 degrees...😂. You’d hate it here, Mike last few days have been cooler at 39-41, but we had 52 last week, and the humidity is generally in the 80+% mark! It’s a steam bath!

Here in the UK, we are due to get our one hot day of the year tomorrow with over 30 deg C, people, are moaning already. Got to admit it's no fun working in heat like that, ideal weather for the beer garden though, and a nice ice-cold pint.

Hi Mike 👋just saying we'll done ✔ and thanks for this update 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I’ve used an isolator switch as protection in the past from the battery box as there were issues of some wonderful members of the community putting the winch cable up over the cab to the rear crossmember and then shorting the winch so it sliced through the Landy.

Mike. It must be time for a cold shandy ? The solenoids might be better swapped out or carry a spare, since they're always a first point of worn electrical failure ! V.

Looking good,let’s hop the customer is finally happy 👍👍👍

I had a capstan (fairey) winch on my old series, what a brilliant thing it was! It ran off the front crank nut with a sliding coupler, simple and effective. Ok, you couldn't pull the car up vertically up a cliff with it, but it worked fine for all normal bits and bobs of dragging stuff around our pulling the car out of being cross axled.. Nice and lightweight too compared to an electrical lump. Many Jameson's ago though...;) Thanks again for sharing Mike! I like how to offer the little detail tips as you go along, that really helps people who want to tackle this themselves. I was wondering how you tidy up the wiring that goes into the enginebay? Tyeraps? Or do you make scew-down clamps? Or does the crown rustproofing make it stick? :D

Another Warn winch that will never get Worn out...

i actually use one of those, for pulling logs too my sawmill (woodmizer), but mine is attached to a military jate hitch (locks onto a 50mm ball hitch) so that i can mount it back or front or run it from an anchor like a tree, it is stabilised by 2 large opposing turnbuckles (with a 2 battery pack dedicated too the winch). I never understand why winches are on the front, sods law says you drive into trouble then need to get out backwards! If i am doing something stupid, ussually in the woods i always carry a tirfor as well.

" They're colour coded so you can't go wrong, yellow to yellow an' earth to earth, ashes to ashes". Lol love those quips, my kind of humour. Wonder what the costumer thinks watching this on youtube and your saying things like "I'm not gonna break my back lifting that bloody great lump of thing off, that's never gonna get used." lol. Great vid keep up the good work.

"It goes with the big wheels and leather seats" :D a fabulous expression!

Nice install young felah,my dream winch is PTO you can run them all day,l suppose the down side the motor has got to be running.

Mike, hope your well. Can you possibly do a video when you can about fitting doors to defenders. I can never seem to get them to close properly and have to spend hours adjusting the door latch position only to find that when the door is accidentally slammed it drops and ruins the process. I struggled for about three hours yesterday getting a passenger door on and had to result in using the forklift to put it on.

I have a really good winch.......... buried some where in the shed, I might dig it out this summer,, or maybe not. I bought a length of electric cable to fit the dam thing but ended up using it as a welding cable as a one off. It never got taken off the welder because my grandson took the old cable to the scrap merchant for beer money. As a famous man once said. I open the door and the flies come in, I shut the door and I,m hot again, life gets tedious dont it. Stay cool mate, Yorkshire Rob.

Making you sweat today Mike, probably the rope connector was for a thinner wire rope that's how you had so much bother with the synthetic rope

These eeemerikeys need to lift there game ..like drivin on the wrong side of the veeehickle .. on the wrong side of the road goin the wrong way.. home of the free and the brave .. i think not .. burrrt then agins us orstralians are gurt by sea .. like what is that aboot squadron leader.. i kinn noo dirty gurty from number thirty ..and thats aboo it ... 😍😎😂

Mike what hapend to mr.Jameson? Cheers Mike 🥃 with Jameson

G'Day Mike. Matey I am trying to catch up after 4 weeks away up North, am about half way through all the Video's. You've gone flat out while I've been away! Anyway I wasn't going to comment on older video's since its dragging them back up but I had to say something about this one. Yes you do have the Bumper fixing plated in backwards, NO they do not go in from the side/back. They go in at an angle from Top to Bottom and a bit of Front to Rear positioning through the FRONT gap in the dumb irons and you have to jiggle the tabs into the space behind the bent bits on the dumb irons. Its fiddly, annoying and frustrating to get them in correctly to be brutally honest, but once they are in the right way, no need to muck about trying to line the Bumper Bolts up, the plates already aligned correctly. The only thing you will need is a pair of Pliers to hold the plate's flat till the first bolt bites in on each side and guess where you use the pliers, on the out side exposed TAB that's Flat. The reason you do all this mucking about is so that the Bumper Bolts have a secured hole at both the top AND the Bottom of the mounting system. If you try to use that bumper as is to winch - then there is a very very good chance that the bumper will TWIST on the Bolt hole mounts in the top of the chassis rails, as there is no support to oppose a lateral force being applied from the front on the bottom of the bumper bolts when winching. See normally a bumper is there to absorb forces impacting onto the front, not forces pulling OUT from the front. Have to change the plates matey, sorry.

X 2 for that refreshing Sherry Mike, although at 35deg C, a cold beer would be nice. Don't worry about that winch, it probably will never be used in anger...

I bought a winch for my Disco' several years ago, because I felt like I "should" have one. After inspecting it, it seemed like fitting it was going to be a bit of a faff, and I realised I'd need to buy some big crimping pliers and more cable to fit it the way I wanted it. Since then, it's been sat in a cupboard in my shed. I do a bit of green-laning and take my Disco' to the beach and I can't say I've ever wished I had the winch fitted. No doubt one day I'll get stuck and regret not having it fitted. I dunno. I don't really have any "projects" planned for the Disco at the moment. Maybe I'll pull my finger out and get the winch fitted this summer.

30 degrees? Is that in Celsius? We hit 21 (celsius) in blighty today. I even had my shorts on under my overalls. It was then that I realised I needed new overalls, when I saw my white knees poking through.

Not keen on that bumper Mike. I don’t know if it’s just the camera angle but it doesn’t look straight, like the two ends taper out away from the wing fronts🤔. You certainly earns your Jameson’s that day mate, what a faff 👍

nice clean install regardless of parts quality

to the casual onlooker Mike you do seem to make a mountain out of a mole hill when putting new parts on a truck joking aside that looks really good I must admit I do like the ones with the square tube fitting that you can just slide it in to use on the front or back bumper then you only need to carry it when you think you may need it like they do on Matt's Off Road Recovery.

Nice job Mike, what is the RAL colour of the green defender?

Ahh yes the ''How we gonna fit this, and what goes which way up'' scenario. I do remember when the new winch was taken out of the box a few weeks back, that you found the instructions....and just threw them away. It's gotta be just a bloke thing. Get flat-pack furniture, or something mechanical to fit, and it's a case of ''chuck the booklet out the window'' and spend hours figuring out the various ways parts can go together. Whereas Mr Instruction Booklet could assist and get the job done in half the time. Regarding that bumper, I have the same powdercoating opinion as you, and many others here - it's not the best job by a long shot. A couple of unclippings from the hook and the paint will through to the galv. So, bumper, winch, wheels, heated seats - surely that's it and you can get the bloody thing out the door now? Or will you get some new 'surprise deliveries' from the catalogue of bling to get you to fit the much needed snorkel, (you ain't got a proper 4x4 on the street unless it's got a snorkel to save your engine as you drive through supermarket car-park puddles). Maybe some amber LED strobe lights for the roof? Or a frame for the back to fit a canvas canopy? Then there's the 2-way radio to wire in...fire extinguisher to mount....pick axe and shovel mounts to fabricate and locate.......I feel your pain.

Jameson's Time.