Got a Harbor Freight 12K Badlands winch for Christmas from the wife and kids.
Read a lot of reviews and it seems most folks are happy with it. I know we could go on and on about Chinese crap, but let's not. There's plenty of it to read elsewhere...
One of the main complaints about the wench is the placement of the control box. It is low and the cable can get wound in a way that could knock it off of it's mount. I wanted to mount mine with the control box under the hood and the remote connection close to the wench.
I got the Badlands universal channel winch mount and a Badlands wireless remote from HF with a 20% discount. I went to Lowes and got all new bolts and some electrical cable, connectors and some wire to match the color code of the remote. If you are going to mount the control box under the hood you have to rewire a few things, but it's easy and relatively straight forward. Just open up the box and you can figure it out.
I'm pretty happy with the way it worked out. There are a few things I may change after I use it a little.
Here are some photo's that give an idea of how it worked out:
Here you can see where I put the remote connection:
I'll let ya know what I think once I use it a few times. I do like the wireless remote. The only thing that I've noticed with it is it has a few seconds of lag between when you let off the button and when the winch actually stops.
Read a lot of reviews and it seems most folks are happy with it. I know we could go on and on about Chinese crap, but let's not. There's plenty of it to read elsewhere...
One of the main complaints about the wench is the placement of the control box. It is low and the cable can get wound in a way that could knock it off of it's mount. I wanted to mount mine with the control box under the hood and the remote connection close to the wench.
I got the Badlands universal channel winch mount and a Badlands wireless remote from HF with a 20% discount. I went to Lowes and got all new bolts and some electrical cable, connectors and some wire to match the color code of the remote. If you are going to mount the control box under the hood you have to rewire a few things, but it's easy and relatively straight forward. Just open up the box and you can figure it out.
I'm pretty happy with the way it worked out. There are a few things I may change after I use it a little.
Here are some photo's that give an idea of how it worked out:
Here you can see where I put the remote connection:
I'll let ya know what I think once I use it a few times. I do like the wireless remote. The only thing that I've noticed with it is it has a few seconds of lag between when you let off the button and when the winch actually stops.