Tigerz11 Winch

[Tonks]

G'Day everyone, has anyone installed a Tigerz11 winch into a Factory GU111 steel bar, if so did you have to rotate the gear box to be able to access the gear lever and also did you mount the control box on top of the bar or did you knock out the section provided in the bar itself,

Cheers Tonks.

[Gas_Guzzler4800]

Yep I had to rotate the gearbox, very easy to do. I popped out the section and made up two L-Shape brackets so the control box sits just below the top of the bullbar. I have plans to refit the section of bullbar with a cutout for the hand controller plug, but havent gotten around to it as yet


http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j268/Tufflux/GAS_guzzler.jpg

[robbo0001]

Sweet just about to do this myself in next few days. Thanks for the picture....how's it working?
Any dramas?

[Gas_Guzzler4800]

Havent had a real chance to use it in an actual recovery, but just playing around with it it seems to pull very strongly, pretty noisy compared to other winches but who cares. I had to pull the bullbar off as it just would not fit up there, it made it far easier to sort out the bracketry for the control box anyway.

[Rip'n'Shred]

Mine is a GUIV.

I rotated the gearbox on mine, though I did have the winch fitted to my previous vehicle which I did also rotate the gearbox, so it may or may not be back to original position.

I mounted the control box in the same spot although the cut out in mine is more triangular. Just made up some brackets and turned the cover of the controller around 180 deg. It sits on an angle pointing forward.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2012/07/17.jpg

[robbo0001]

Installed mine yesterday,only took about 45 minutes it was pretty easy. Heaps of room inside the bullbar.

I am yet to mount the controlbox though, its currently sitting inside the bullbar top recess....trying to workout what I want to do.
I also will have to get a die-grinder out and modify where the rope exits the hawse, its currently running from the bottom of the winch and over the steel bar.
Hopefully just grind the steel down on the bar, and maybe need an offset hawse....wont be hard.

Pretty happy with the kit, had everything required including longer mounting bolts. I stripped it down and had a look inside,also rotated clutch lever 90 degrees.

Its not hard to uninstall,so its not going to be hard to maintain regularly. Hopefully get to give it a work out soon.

CHeers

[Tonks]

G'Day Robbo, Do you have the factory Nissan steel bar, if so just rotate the winch so the motor is passenger side & gear box is drivers side, then the cable will come off the drum at the top and will be the right possy for the Hawse.

Cheers Tonks.

[robbo0001]

Cheers Tonks.. Will have another look today.
Would removing the rope and spooling it over the drum, instead of under achieve the samething?
Does it need to pull from under the drum?

[Tonks]

Robbo, i phoned Tigerz11 and they knew straight away that i had a patrol with a nissan bar and said flip the winch over as i explained, if you re spool the rope, in will be out & out will be in,

Cheers Tonks

[Gas_Guzzler4800]

yep forgot to mention put the gearbox on drivers side and motor on passenger

[robbo0001]

Cheers Gas and Tonks .... Got it flipped around today.
Had minor issues with sorting out the long and short bolt placement but She is in now.
Still need to mount control box properly but ran outta time .

Thanks for the assistance.
Cheers

[robbo0001]

Gday,
finalised the Tigerz winch install....overall pretty happy with the product and the ease of install.


Time will tell on its viability of course....but the Clan Wagon isn't a Comp Truck, and I always do my preventative maintenance so it should be sweet.

Edit photos hopefully squared away now
http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/blueydog/th_winch3.jpg (http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/blueydog/winch3.jpg) http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/blueydog/th_winch4.jpg (http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/blueydog/winch4.jpg)
Cheers

[TimGU]

Installed mine yesterday,only took about 45 minutes it was pretty easy. Heaps of room inside the bullbar.

I am yet to mount the controlbox though, its currently sitting inside the bullbar top recess....trying to workout what I want to do.
I also will have to get a die-grinder out and modify where the rope exits the hawse, its currently running from the bottom of the winch and over the steel bar.
Hopefully just grind the steel down on the bar, and maybe need an offset hawse....wont be hard.

Pretty happy with the kit, had everything required including longer mounting bolts. I stripped it down and had a look inside,also rotated clutch lever 90 degrees.

Its not hard to uninstall,so its not going to be hard to maintain regularly. Hopefully get to give it a work out soon.

CHeers

I did the same thing and offset the number plate so I could slide my hand underneath to flick the wireless remote switch

[Tonks]

Hey Robbo, how did you mount the control box to the winch,

Cheers Tonks

[robbo0001]

Gday Tonks,
the bar already had a pretty large cut-out in the top of it, I wanted to recess the controlbox inside but leave the remote-plug accessible above the bar.
There are two long, thin bolts and nuts going into the Tigerz control box mounting plate (bent mounting plate with two screw holes on base of control box), via some dodgy steel brackets I bent out of some scrap steel and screwed to the inside rear of the bar.
I then used chequer plate ali to stop any lateral or forward movement of the control box, and just screwed it to the top of the bar.
Siliconed up the gaps and ran some silicone around all accessible seals on the controlbox.

[dsmith]

Does everyone like their winch? I got a 12000lb one with steel cable. Not long after I bogged the tractor and slasher in tee-tree slush down so far in the front that the sump was resting on the mud - the front axle was swallowed and in the rear the slasher was lifted all the way up and it was still dragging in the mud. I did a 30 meter single line pull with the back of the patrol tied to a tree. No drams!

[NP99]

Can anyone detail real life negative experiences with the winch? Most seem +

[04OFF]

Ive got a rope version, still all positive for me so far. :)

[Bloodyaussie]

I have one and so far so good... Irish has had his on for more than a couple of years and no problems at all!!!

[threedogs]

Was just about to start a thread think I will

[NP99]

This might suggest that the low end of the market is ok. Warn and the likes could have lowered their prices and made it more viable for all of us. Even the deal Westy was organising was at the low end but sounded like value for money! The big players are making a lot of noise......is it quality or margins?