Questions re ARB Bull Bar & Winch install

[hermanpj]

Guys I tried a few searches and had trouble finding so please excuse me if these questions are already answered somewhere. If anyone can point me to a thread to read I'd be obliged.

I am installing an ARB bull bar and Warn XD9000. Have 2 questions.

1. On the bull bar itself, having some trouble getting it to mount exactly - if the holes are all lined up on the right side, they wont line up properly on the left. they are off by a tiny bit, but enough that th bolts are very tough to get in. Has anyone experienced this? Is it normal, and is there a way to get the bolts in a sequence to get around this?

2. on mounting the XD9000. I got some blocks of metal that look like billet aluminum spacers with the ARB bull bar. The instructions say that on a 9000 lb winch i would need to use spacers to move the winch back 8 mm. OK trouble with that is 1) the spacers are not 8 mm thick, so i'm wondering if i'm missing pieces, and 2) if i used these spacers the mounting screws would not be long enough to even reach the nuts, muck less thread them.

Has anyone already resovled this?

Thanks

Pat Herman

[Nomar]

I have an ARB on a 91 RR and I still don't have the holes all lined up!

I think it just takes alot of trial and error...

Not sure about your winch...

[hermanpj]

Thanks. Got ARB support on the phone today and they said, yeah the factory tolerances were just not not what they are today, so unless I see the bull bar is just bent out of alignment, i'm going to need to drill out the arb's holes just a little bit to accomodate, and as long as the holes in the frame are not bigger than 1/2 inch it won't wobble.