So I thought I would show some of the other upgrades I have done over the past 3 1/2 years.
I wanted to get a winch, But I also wanted to have the ability to run it front or rear. I was also trying to do on the cheap. I got a Harbor Freight Badlands 9000 lb. I can't say enough good things about this thing. I sewed up the cover with some vinyl I had leftover from recovering some dirt bike seats.
The front crossmember on the truck was really bent from the previous owner being jerked out of the mud with a chain wrapped around it. Two of the rivets were pulled through. I got an old rear hitch from a buddy for free. I cut it to length to fit between the frame rails, flipped it so the receiver was up higher, and welded it in.
I built a cradle out of some scrap channel iron and 2" inch square tube that was left over from demo derby cars. After the receiver was welded in, I marked the back side of the bumper, removed it and cut the hole. The winch was hooked up with Anderson connectors.
Shopping for wire to run to the rear was looking like it was going to be expensive, but I found some 20' 2 gauge copper jumper cables at O'Reilly's for $55. I cut the clamps off the end and soldered on copper eyelets and the Anderson connector pins. *Stickers - good for at least 10 h.p. (When I was a kid in So. Cal in the 80's, there was a guy there who had this same cat sticker on his lifted truck - I was happy to find it on ebay.) I replaced the rear step bumper with this stock one from a half ton that I picked up for $50. It came with all the trim plates, brackets and bolts. I needed the front and rear to match. Thank you Craigslist.
More later....
