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Old 01-12-2013, 11:21 AM #226
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I've been out for a few days in the great southwest with some family, and I must say, I am super jealous of all you who call this place home! The abundance of off road trails is amazing! I'm regretting flying and not bringing my 4Runner along.

I did get to do some hiking though (off-reading without the truck), I spent three days at the bottom of the Grand Canyon at Phantom Ranch. Here's a picture of that, you can see the ranch in the bottom left of the picture. Great camping trip, definitely something to do once in your lifetime!




Also...no one disown me, but I am in Sedona for a few days and couldn't take seeing all the off-road trails and not being able to try them. So I am temporarily jumping to the dark side and renting a jeep today. I'm excited to get out on these trails!
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The trails in sedona are a lot of fun. Damn I miss AZ
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Valentines day car wash.

Fun fact, power washing the door handles while standing close to the car with the smart key in your pocket will unlock it. Who knew.
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Took a drive up north today for the first annual TE convert meeting. Unfortunately only Phillyd2 and I showed up, we had to Skype in Harper7 and Hbryanlopez, but they were so mad that we met without them they didn't even pick up...

Good seeing Dave and I even relieved him of a few of the spare parts he had lying around...

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Now if you had just called Antman and Mikey's2010SR5 to join in, you'd have all of the nominees for this month's T4ROTM in one spot
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Took a drive up north today for the first annual TE convert meeting. Unfortunately only Phillyd2 and I showed up, we had to Skype in Harper7 and Hbryanlopez, but they were so mad that we met without them they didn't even pick up...

Good seeing Dave and I even relieved him of a few of the spare parts he had lying around...
Looking good! how long have you had the conversion done? I like that you painted only half of the valance.
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Took a drive up north today for the first annual TE convert meeting. Unfortunately only Phillyd2 and I showed up, we had to Skype in Harper7 and Hbryanlopez, but they were so mad that we met without them they didn't even pick up...

Good seeing Dave and I even relieved him of a few of the spare parts he had lying around...

Can't wait to join the group of Trail conversion, hopefully soon i will be able too. Jangoforhire, i think i'm just gonna mimic your build, because i love how your truck looks.
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Looking good! how long have you had the conversion done? I like that you painted only half of the valance.
I did the TE conversion in the first week of January I believe. Thanks! Yes I think that still gives the truck a bit of limited flare.


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Can't wait to join the group of Trail conversion, hopefully soon i will be able too. Jangoforhire, i think i'm just gonna mimic your build, because i love how your truck looks.
Sounds good! Let me know if you have any questions!
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Excited to get the build back up and running again in a few weeks when I get home from school. First thing to go in is the winch, followed by some sliders, and SoCal's behind grill lights, and then I may be tackling the in dash iPad setup if I get ambitious enough...

Stay tuned.

(This is basically just a me "being excited" post, it's been to long since I've taken anything apart on my truck...ok now back to work )
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Excited to get the build back up and running again in a few weeks when I get home from school. First thing to go in is the winch, followed by some sliders, and SoCal's behind grill lights, and then I may be tackling the in dash iPad setup if I get ambitious enough...

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(This is basically just a me "being excited" post, it's been to long since I've taken anything apart on my truck...ok now back to work )
Wow what a teaser post. As soon as I saw your build pop up, I though to myself I have to check this out, because there is something probably new and exciting, well I guess I have to wait, subscribed. LOL If you ever decide to sell your headlights, I would be more then happy to buy them from you.

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Alright finally got some time to work on the truck again.

First off, the winch! I was lucky and got to experience some of this forums generosity for this entire project. The winch and mount came from @phillyd2 who gave me a great deal and let me stop by his house to pick everything up! We had a long time standing deal for the equipment so he was kind enough to let me come get it a few months ago when he upgraded his winch. I then got the synthetic winch line from @bernardmwrangle who again gave a fellow forum member a great deal on a brand new spydura line. Thanks guys!

First things first, makes sure it works before cramming into my bumper.
And it works perfectly!


The install is actually pretty simple. But of course I wanted to make it a little complicated. Everyone knows I'm addicted to switches, so why pass up the perfect opportunity to add some more? I wanted to add a winch power and in/out control inside the cab for the winch. So when I get stuck in the snow I can stay inside in the heat while I pull myself to freedom.

BUT, it's a little trickier than just hooking up a switch to the winch. The warn solenoid used to use a 3 wire control, which is a peace of cake to wire a switch into. So they of course had to change it. The new Warn solenoids are now a 5 wire system to protect the winch in case of a solenoid failure. This works by routing the ground for the system though the switch, so if the warn wired remote isn't connected, the solenoids aren't grounded. But as soon as the wired remote is plugged in, the system is grounded and and circuit is completed. So now I could have come up with a system to mimic this and allow me to use switches (you could use a relay to switch to ground for example). But I was planning on isolating the winch anyway, so I just bypassed the 5 wire safety.

Figuring out just how the circuit works...


Found the wires I needed (in/out and powered) AND you can see the short red wire in the solenoid cover that is bridging black and brown wire. That is just bypassing the ground routed though the switch. So now the winch can be controlled regardless of whether the remote is connected.


Now I dropped the bumper off:


Loosened the aluminum bumper:


And crammed the plate in there!


Everyone is completely right, it's very obvious how this fits once it's all in front of you. So not much explanation is needed.

The only problem is this pipe (that I think is either air conditioning or power steering...not sure which as I didn't really trace it back to far) which is right smack in the middle of where the winch would mount.


Here's the winch sitting half way on the plate so you can see how the pipe gets in the way.


You can fix this pretty easy by just bending it back behind the metal bar in front of the radiator. It's connected to two flexible hoses on either end so it doesn't hurt it to bend it a bit.


Then the winch will fit right it! Here's the winch with the line on and wired up (the batteries out when the picture was taken because I used the side posts on the optima to wire the winch into.


I have since painted the fairing black, and then attached a prolink thimble onto the front. I don't have a picture of this yet, but I'll get one later and throw it up. I think it looks great!
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Now since i bypassed one of Warns new safety features by bridging the ground inside the winch solenoid, I figured I should isolate the winch. I grabbed warns winch isolation solenoid and mounted it next to the winch. Here is the kit I got:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This solenoid basically performs (and is wired) just like a relay. But it works for really high voltage equipment. So this will allow the winch to be disconnected from the battery until I flip a switch inside the truck which energizes the solenoid and connects the winch to the battery.

It's actually a pretty nice little kit. Here is everything that's included.


Now I just had to figure out where to put it...real estate under my hood has become a precious commodity. I found a place to put it here on this bumper bracket (this is after the black plastic support is removed in front of the support)


Grounded the solenoid around the corner...


Mounted and wired up!


View from the top:


Plastic support put back in front, and it hides it perfectly.


View from top with support on:
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I love a nice write-up!!!
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+1, very nice write up @jangoforhire

but where is the pic of the finished install
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