Got my winch in the mail yesterday and installed!
Had to remote mount the Control box, this is also the wireless brain for the wireless remote. Normally it mounts to the top of the winch and the kit comes with pre cut copper flat bars to make the connections from that location to the winch motor. So the supplied wiring was kinda useless. I was able to use the supplied battery cables to make the jump from the remote location to the winch motor. Just had to make my own cable leads to the battery. The winch itself fills up the bumper pretty tight, the control box just wouldn't workout on top.
couple more holes to mount a power cut off switch. I wanted everything reachable through the access holes in the bumper.
Ran the wiring up and over the horn and across in front of the condenser. The two battery leads run off behind the driver head light to the battery.
pretty simple operation just reach in and twist the knob to on,
Then just work the clutch engagement.
All wired up and ready to recover. The wireless remote is bad ass It's rated to work up to 51ft away from the winch. Tested it out at my dads place, drove down into a small gully area and hooked up to a tree at the top. Walked up and over to the drive way and talked to dad while he washed his tundra and watched my truck pull itself up the hill. Pretty sick!
The switch stays in the off position until needed but when the winch is turned on it has that cool LED light, changes to red when it is spooling out and green when spooling in, blue when ready to use. The TJM winch came with everything you see, fair lead, wiring, hook, wired and wireless remote, and synthetic line. I purchased from CBI the box came with the nuts the winch mounts with taped in a packing slip on the side of the box. Kind of indicating the winch didn't come with them (just an FYI if you purchase from Ebay or another vendor it may not contain mounting nuts.) The only hardware supplied in the TJM box were 6 bolts. Two for the fair lead and 4 to mount the winch. I assume you would just have to supply your own nuts for their hardware. I didn't have any metric nuts so I just swapped out the fair lead bolts with some standard thread bolts I had at the shop. Also the winch mounting bolts are on the short side in my opinion. They come with flat and lock washers; however, the bolts are to short to mount on 1/4" plating and still utilize the washers. Even though they're grade 8 I'll likely source some longer bolts to ensure I have enough holding strength in the mounts. The kit also came with free hat lol.
