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How do you keep the winch from twisting as the rope winds from one side to the other? seems you would end up with the winch twisted and trying to wind all the rope on one end of the drum

Me too, the last ones I bought I offered IIRC $80 ea on 2, these can be modified to fit on the front, although it was part of the front bumper project so anyone else would need to build it a little different.

Funny how SECO raised the price on Fleabay a few minuets after my post, at the time of my post it was $139. Edit, I removed the comment about being sorry I did business with SECO, the timing did seem a little suspicious but that comment was uncalled for.

The mount part number is 5340-01-486-5962 and works with virtually all 10K on up winches, and cheap, under $200 shipped on Fleabay. It does require an air lift bumper.

Why not just install a winch like the truck Gods intended? It is tough enough to get to a permanently mounted winch when you really need it, "rigging" one up in a mud hole is next to impossible. Both my winches have manual and wireless control.

You need to make sure the wire tags on the rear of the headlight bucket agree with the wire tag inside the bucket. they often get crossed on the back of the buckets.

The front end needed some major TLC, the only thing that retains the front trailing arms are the leaf springs and on one of the trailing arms all the leaves were broken or loose so the rest of the suspension was the only thing holding it together, on the king pins all the retaining snap rings...

I think it would be difficult to pressurize the air filter canister, it is open to atmosphere.

I know nothing. But the purpose of a fording valve is to pressurize the vent system, so things like the diffs, engine, hubs etc do not get water in them. So I would think the connection to the air filter housing would go directly to the fording valve so the valve can control everything that...

I think that ad is aimed at the military so it would have to be an approved application.

Maybe they are only listed for trucks that came from the factory with air lift bumpers?

Well while we are being so cordial anyone visiting S TX (Beeville/Corpus area) is welcome to drive the DuraVee, but I must warn it will ruin you for anything powered by a Detroit! That offer is also for the GEP turbo/6L80 "Detroit"

Easy Pleasy!! 12K Hydro on the front, 12K electric on the rear!! I learned many decades ago that the front winch can usually only pull you farther into whatever your were stupid enough to drive off into to begin with.. EDIT, that oil is from my JLG manlift I was using to work on the shop door...

This was my solution for the Detroit, a Raptor pump and a spin on filter, mounted in the passenger wheel well. No possibility of dumping diesel into the engine oil. No possibility of dumping diesel into the vent system filling up all the hubs, trans, transfer case and differentials. Simple...

Not just America, in Australia if you have to abandon your vehicle on the long and desolate roadways someone will come along and torch it. Feral humans are everywhere.

Just remember to get the gasket for the access plate behind the pump. you need to remove that plate and grease up the pump rod so it stays up in its hole in the block or you will break the pump rod. All early SB chevy engines had that plate so it is not hard to find.

Reminds me of the Muskeg bogs in far north west Canada, fun times!

White smoke is usually oil, it may clear up with time, might want to pop off the oil fill cap and see if crank case is getting pressurized. Did your truck have a fording valve? if so have you installed the CDR valve that was removed????

Next time it does not charge check the IGN terminal on the alt, no voltage would be a good indication that solenoid is intermittent

Does the trans shift correctly? sending 24V to the TCM is never a good thing, I would suspect the smoke has been let out of the TCM