I went muddin a few months ago and got stuck and ended up having to sleep in the woods cause i couldnt get hold of my buddy to come pull me out till the next morning.
Here are some pics of that. Wasnt sure if i posted them before.





Well after that night i decided i wasnt goin mudding by myself again till i got a winch. Well i finally ordered a winch today. Should be here in about a week. Here it is.

 

Where are you planning on mounting it?

Eventually ill be getting a big Road Armor bumper and a winch!

 

Rule #1 of Boonie Bustin -- Never go out alone. I've broken that rule a few times...luckily nothing that bad ever happened. Worst was being lost in a national forest at night for 2 hours on a 4 wheeler. Oops

 

What size is the winch?

And I would make sure the winch works with the brushguard.

 

fwiw, i run the warn 9.5ti with a warn semi hidden mount. u can see how she sits.

 

hey klitch where did you get that mount at? and what do you think it would look like mounted on a truck with a body lift?

sorry for the hijack but thats like one of the coolest things ive seen for whinchs on the 97-03!

 

http://warn.com/truck/mounting-syste...ons_ford.shtml

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i think it'll definately be visible with a 3"body lift.

you may be more interested in using a universal one, or making your own brackets to push the winch up higher to stay tucked up, also would benefit approach angles if you did that

also, the same kit worked on my brothers 89 ranger. just flip the brackets and drill a new hole.

 

Your ruthless on yoru truck CJ! Its fun riding with you though. So what are mounting it on?

 

I got their extreme Grill Guard to mount it on.

 

It is a Mile Marker 12,000 lbs winch. Little over kill but id rather have to much then not enough. The Grillguard is also made by Mile Marker for that winch so it will work. And it is rated to handle a 12000 lbs winch.

 

hey klitch i know this is an old topic. but do you think you could mount other winches besides a warn on the semi hidden mount kit?

 

IIRC many manufactures have the same 4 bolt pattern of the Warn winches. I would look up the winch you plan to buy and compare it to the relative dimensions of the winches slotted to fit the mounting plate. As long as they are not too wide/tall and have the same bolt pattern I would see no reason for it not to fit. I plan to make my own hidden mount behind the bumper using steel stock.