12-Feb-2015
Straight on view of the winch plate, winch, and bumper mounted
Everything fell right into place and fastened with 9/16 inch grade 8 hardware. I spooled on the 95 feet of synthetic winch cable rated at 12,000 pounds.
12-Feb-2015
Another angle of the winch bumper mounted
Just another angle to show the aluminum step as well as the other accessories.
12-Feb-2015
Driver side angle of the front bumper
This side shows the stationary hook used to Stow away the Winch hook.
12-Feb-2015
Close up of bumper step and winch
This shows the aluminum step the flush mount lights and the thick fairlead plate.
11-Feb-2015
Stationary hook for stowing the winch hook
I am not sure which vehicle this came off of but it may have come off of my old excursion because I found a left and a right hand hook in the garage. I wanted to be able to stove the winch hook up high and away from the traditional shackle which would be in front of the flush mounted light.
I sandblasted the hook and then shot it with a hammered finish silver vein powder coat. I drilled and tapped the top of the bumper which is 1/4" thick for 3/8 bolts and installed the hook with a couple grade 8 flange bolts.
12-Feb-2015
An old-school under the hood light
I wanted to add some sort of lighting under the hood and found an old school General Motors light from an old Chevy truck like I used to have back in 1977 on my Chevy truck.
12-Feb-2015
Under hood work light
I picked up this under the hood work light off of an older Chevy truck at the junkyard, what is nice about the light is that it has a cord that is about 7 feet long so the light can reach anywhere around the front of the vehicle.
08-Feb-2015
New cheap Smittybilt cup holders
After having to cut and re-sew the straps on the cup holders, they fit perfect in this spot.
08-Feb-2015
Cup holders
The new location of the cheap cup holders.
15-Feb-2015
Plumbing fittings
I ended up sweating some copper fittings and tube together to be able to route my heater supply lines without kinking the hoses.
15-Feb-2015
Heater plumbed and diffuser installed
I finally plumbed the heater and and mounted the new diffuser tubes. Once the amplifier is installed above the heater I can run the vent hoses to the heater/defroster diffuser.
14-Feb-2015
Bracket for Amplifier
I made this bracket to mount the amplifier above the heater high up in the dash.