Discovery winch tray and brushguard

[robertf]

Im working on putting the factory winch tray on my LSE and dont want to give up the brushguard.

The Treks and some XDs had a brushguard that looks like a cut down version of the standard one bolted to the winch tray.

Does anyone have access to one of these that could grab a couple of flange measurements for me? They are the red items in the drawing

 

[Nomar]

Im working on putting the factory winch tray on my LSE and dont want to give up the brushguard.

The Treks and some XDs had a brushguard that looks like a cut down version of the standard one bolted to the winch tray.

Does anyone have access to one of these that could grab a couple of flange measurements for me? They are the red items in the drawing

Kyle van Tassel has exactly what your looking for...

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[robertf]

He has a trek? I remember someone a long time ago was welding the grill guards to RTE bumpers or something like that. That'd be easy since there is no guidelines, but I'm trying to make it look like the factory parts.

Here's what I think it is with some rough photogrammetry.

 

[robertf]

still looking for those dimensions. The A-bar will have to cut it for now

 

[robertf]

so far install is akward as hell. and its taking longer since its a great time to glue all the broken plastic grill parts back together

this winch is a toy compared to a husky, and fitment sucks. The holes in the tray are about .39, so not a lot of room for misalginment, and the winch frame flexes a lot. Had to loosen every bolt in the winch, install it, then tighten them back down

The instructions to cut the air dam are wrong. Should be 12", not 300mm. fortunately no one will see that.

Im doing the winch cut out install at the same time. This must have been intended for ROW markets, because the instructions are to install the switch where the US models have the dimmer rheostat

 

[terryjm1]

It’s definitely looking good.

 

[robertf]

Im pretty sure this is the switch LR originally sold with the kit. going to take the wood trim cover to the bandsaw then should look factoryish

learned something new. 94/95 mirror switch brackets are different. the round and rectangular holes for the headlight height switch is flipped around on those

 

[Tugela]

Chase Prowse has an XD, complete and completely original, that he restored. I wrote an article about it for Alloy & Grit. He's not on here, but he's a prolific poster on Facebook. I saw him recently on the Land Rover Trading Wall "MERICAN" Version page.

 

[robertf]

Looks interesting. Hadn't thought about the DB mounts to the front.

Here's the manuals I'm referencing for all this.

 

[robertf]

got the NTC8477 springs that the instructions call for installed. about 10" compressed on both sides. I measured 9.5 with the stock springs before installing all this.


for comparison, the NRC4305 I have on another truck sit about 11" with the husky, brush guard, and skidplate. quick math shows about 140# difference, I think I believe that.

 

[robertf]

Still slapping it back together

this semi rigid 3m urethane is great. The grill might be 10% of it when finished

 

[AU_88]

I have a factory winch mount, I will try to get you measurements this weekend.

 

[DiscoClay]

Im pretty sure this is the switch LR originally sold with the kit. going to take the wood trim cover to the bandsaw then should look factoryish

learned something new. 94/95 mirror switch brackets are different. the round and rectangular holes for the headlight height switch is flipped around on those

Side question: What is that unused dial/Pot hold for? Thats where I put the power steering pump control dial.

 

[DiscoClay]

Looks interesting. Hadn't thought about the DB mounts to the front.

Here's the manuals I'm referencing for all this.

Best factory manual visual instruction ever:


https://discoweb.org/index.php?atta...=102333&hash=58a018ef689408fbbb2f0275d77bd968

 

[robertf]

Side question: What is that unused dial/Pot hold for? Thats where I put the power steering pump control dial.

headlight position. Euro stuff has a motor on one of the headlight clip posts. aims it up and down, compensates for heavy cargo and such

 

[terryjm1]

headlight position. Euro stuff has a motor on one of the headlight clip posts. aims it up and down, compensates for heavy cargo and such

Cool

 

[DiscoClay]

headlight position. Euro stuff has a motor on one of the headlight clip posts. aims it up and down, compensates for heavy cargo and such

huh. I actually bought a couple of those headlight motors for my newfangled headlight project! Good to know. Funny that rover didn't cover that hole, at least on mine (and clearly others) there is a glaring lack of dial/cover (no pun intended).

 

[DiscoClay]

Chase Prowse has an XD, complete and completely original, that he restored. I wrote an article about it for Alloy & Grit. He's not on here, but he's a prolific poster on Facebook. I saw him recently on the Land Rover Trading Wall "MERICAN" Version page.

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Nice rack...

 

[robertf]

theres a plastic snap in cover on the 94/95s, and I think all the 96 and up had a wood trim piece covering it

 

[DiscoClay]

Ah... so it's just exited the vehicle at some point. Lucas must have made that part.