My M1008 Milemarker Winch Bumper

[biggestc69]

I've seen several peoples cucv winch install and I thought I would put mine up also. Maybe give someone some ideas if they are considering putting one on.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Nice! I might actually have to install mine now.

 

[doghead]

Me too.

 

[combatmech]

Awesome.... Bad A$%!!

 

[biggestc69]

Thanks guys! I orginally posted to maybe give someone an idea on how to do it. If it motivates others to put thier winches on even better!

 

[gimpyrobb]

I think mine will be going on my M725.

 

[kweb434]

Nice set up BAD A**!!

 

[Shankem-Deep]

Looks tough!! Did you notch out the square tubing to set down on the shackle hangers?

 

[steved454]

Thanks for posting it! I got a 9000lb winch for christmas! been trying to figure out How I wanted to install it on my truck.

 

[joediveguy]

Nice! That is on my "to do" list. I picked up an old school bus bumper last weekend that will be the base for mine.

 

[biggestc69]

Shankem-Deep, the front d-rings were kinda a pain. The tubbing that they hook to is a real odd ball size and one is longer than the other. The way we did it was to cut them in the middle (which is how we found it one is longer than the other), we then used a piece of rectangular 1/4" roughly the same size to run through the bumper attaching the front and rear peice. We decided to space the d-rings out further from the frame so that way in the back we could get a full weld all the way around where it comes out through the backside. So to answer your question we didnt notch the bumper we just cut holes in it and ran it through.

 

[camogriz]

Nice job, especially incorporating the stock brush guard and shackles.

 

[Stonepicker1]

I've seen several peoples cucv winch install and I thought I would put mine up also. Maybe give someone some ideas if they are considering putting one on.

Have you load tested the winch/bumper yet?

 

[Cucvnut]

My smittybilt 10k has been in the closet for over a year! i need to install it someday.

 

[biggestc69]

Stonepicker1 I hooked it up to a giant downed oak tree and it drug the truck. So I put the truck in 4 low reverse and it drug the truck about 15 ft, like it wasnt even there. The winch is a MileMarker 12000 using the stock pump. The only thing that I added was a power steering cooler on the return line for the pump and Royal Purple syn power steering fuild. After all that the power steering fluid was luke warm. I am really pleased with it. After years of owning a electric winchs and having to cycle them to keep them cool and worrying about being hard on the vehicles electircal system, now I just pull and pull and watch all my friends jaws on the ground.

 

[biggestc69]

Thanks Camogriz! I cant take all the credit for it, my dad owns his own welding shop so materials and labor were free! The design was a joint effort over several adult beverages and a couple days of head scratching.

 

[123mack]

Could you take some pictures of the underside, showing how it attaches?

 

[Stonepicker1]

Stonepicker1 I hooked it up to a giant downed oak tree and it drug the truck. So I put the truck in 4 low reverse and it drug the truck about 15 ft, like it wasnt even there. The winch is a MileMarker 12000 using the stock pump. The only thing that I added was a power steering cooler on the return line for the pump and Royal Purple syn power steering fuild. After all that the power steering fluid was luke warm. I am really pleased with it. After years of owning a electric winchs and having to cycle them to keep them cool and worrying about being hard on the vehicles electircal system, now I just pull and pull and watch all my friends jaws on the ground.

Thats great. I have the same hyd winch(not mounted yet). As long as the engine is running you are good to go. I just bought an electric 24volt Warn 18,000 as a backup.

 

[biggestc69]

123mack, my brother is the photographer so tommorow when we go to ride four wheelers I'll see if he can bring his camera. Stonepicker1 thats a good idea. I thought about getting the same Warn winch to run out the back of the truck, but havent figured out mounting and the roller fairlead location. I saw where someone on here had a really good idea of removing the pintle hitch and running it out through there. I plan on getting a 105 trailer to haul scrap metal to the dump with so my pintle will probably stay where it is for now.

 

[biggestc69]

Heres the pics of the mounting bracket and how we spaced out where the d-rings attached for 123mack.