I strongly urge you to rethink hidden winch mounts. Its NO fun having to find your winch clutch lever in mud/water (or both). Or during LONG recovery operations when you need to spool out and wind up constantly. You'll end up cutting your arm up real good while accessing the lever over and over again (if its in a tight spot) Besides that, it's more difficult for the mud/water/other debris to fall off with these mounts and you will notice that your winch will age faster.
Also keep in mind that Winches need to be serviced, so you want to have something that's easy to access when the service time comes around.
Contrary to popular belief, the the factory winch mounts are VERY strong and makes for a great recovery point.
This picture is from one of the EE groupees. Notice how he put the plug for the solenoid on the grille. You can keep the internals of the solenoid in its box under the hood and make it waterproof....
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JC...
1996 Discovery SE - The Blue Marlin - gone =(
1965 Series IIa 109 RHD 2.25L Dsl - Wilks
1965 Series IIa 88' LHD 2.25L Petrol - Fionna
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