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Warn Winch Tray


My warn winch tray, fitted by previous owner has two what look like recovery eyes fitted. Now I've downloaded the installation manual for that winch tray and I can see there are holes there for something but these eyes are rigid and thin and bolted in with M10 bolts. Are they recovery eyes? I can't imagine they'll take much of a loading if there are.

Seperately then would those holes take a loading if I installed rotating shackles there instead???

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It’s a recovery eye bolted to where the normal bolts go through.
The bolts are usually high tensile 10.8

You won’t get a swivel recovery point through the hole.
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If it'll take a load i could always make the hole bigger to get one in there maybe?

It seems to me that because they are rigid they won't take a load from an obscure angle without bending, breaking, snapping.
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It’s been added, it’s not std for the warn kit. Useful to hang the hook on, but as you say, recovery point on its own it may not be so great.
The whole winch tray is bolted 10 melts so won’t come away from the car, but just one bolt I would be a bit concerned. Rather use the big recovery point underneath the winch mount on the car itself. Thumbs Up
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Fair advice. Yeah ok will stick to that. Was just a thought. Rotating shackle would look a lot smarter though Very Happy
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Drill the Tray to take load rated swivel recovery eyes Wink


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I'm going to drill the tray on mine on the drivers side to fit a ball and pin tow jaw. On occasion, I have to winch dead rally cars onto trailers and it's easier to hook their trailer to my vehicle and winch that way.

Also gives me easier access if I need to double line the winch.

The plan is to get a piece of 10mm plate steel drilled and tapped to match the tow ball pattern as there's not really enough room behind for nuts and washers.
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That looks like a good way to go.

The double line pull leads me onto my next question though and in part I guess you have already answered it. What sort of loadings will that tray take? Any thoughts on that?

Also, good outlet for the swivel points??
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After speaking with a number of different people including Devon 4x4 they all concluded that the Warn tray is very over engineered and more than upto taking those load forces.

And when you think about it there are only 4 bolts that actually hold the winch in the tray!!!

My swivels came from First Four and are tested and rated as are the shackles Thumbs Up
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Perfect, thanks ks. I'm off shopping 8)
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I have a spare set of winch tray brackets that I'm looking to part with if it all goes wrong !
  
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I've got 2x eyelets on the front of my warn winch tray. Perfect for a D shackle to sit in.

These were added by AndrewS years ago and have been perfect for double line pulls.

Picture of it on my last D4 (Zoom in to see more!):

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nigethecat wrote:
I have a spare set of winch tray brackets that I'm looking to part with if it all goes wrong !


I've got a spare winch tray to go with them.
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DISCOJASE wrote:
I've got 2x eyelets on the front of my warn winch tray. Perfect for a D shackle to sit in.

These were added by AndrewS years ago and have been perfect for double line pulls.

Picture of it on my last D4 (Zoom in to see more!):

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Are they welded on? Cant quite make it out.
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I'd hope they're welded on, they look good and solid.
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