This should be a very straightforward as I already have one fitted to my 110. I have a husky winch (yet to be rebuilt/serviced) and I spent a small fortune in fuel driving to the end of the country to collect a husky specific winch bumper. I am taking advantage of the sunshine (and the wife being away with the baby), to do all the prep work to the bumper prior to getting it galvanised. I have bent up and drilled out the foot plates for the bull bar to weld onto so it will bolt to the winch bumper rather than a standard bumper and was planning on welding on some number plate mounting brackets. In measuring up I noticed that this bumper was not the same as my current one so thought I would test fit the winch as thought there might be a problem. I am trying to copy as closely as possible the setup I already have pictured below:
Although it is clearly a bumper designed to take a husky, as it has all of the correct mounting bolts etc, it does not have space for the solenoid to mount on the end and the plastic cover fitted over (again a small fortune spent to get a non broken one of those). I did think about just trimming the bumper to make room for it but there is not enough space and it would take it a long way past where the bumper mounts to the chassis which would definitely cause a weak spot. I am not particularly happy about it but know that not having the solenoid mounted to the end of the winch is not the end of the world. However What should I do with the solenoid and where should I mount it? I would rather have it on the bumper than in the engine bay so the whole lot can be removed as a single item, and am planning on fitting an albrite solenoid rather than the old fashioned silver cans. Below are the pictures of the problem, although not bolted in it is sat on the riser spacers as it should be. What are peoples suggestions?
Although it is clearly a bumper designed to take a husky, as it has all of the correct mounting bolts etc, it does not have space for the solenoid to mount on the end and the plastic cover fitted over (again a small fortune spent to get a non broken one of those). I did think about just trimming the bumper to make room for it but there is not enough space and it would take it a long way past where the bumper mounts to the chassis which would definitely cause a weak spot. I am not particularly happy about it but know that not having the solenoid mounted to the end of the winch is not the end of the world. However What should I do with the solenoid and where should I mount it? I would rather have it on the bumper than in the engine bay so the whole lot can be removed as a single item, and am planning on fitting an albrite solenoid rather than the old fashioned silver cans. Below are the pictures of the problem, although not bolted in it is sat on the riser spacers as it should be. What are peoples suggestions?
