strengthened up the winch mount on the front. tied it into the chassis rails with some 6mm by 60mm flat and high tensile bolts..
ya can just see it there under the positive winch cable..

put in an air pump, actuated off a switch, so when headin through deep water, it'd positive pressure the winch motor and the bellhousing.. ta kbjj for lookin at the winch and cablings too.. have left the bottom of bellhousing with the usual drainage hole and the winch motor has a fitting, same as the top, with a little duckbilled type of shaped heatshrink.
air pump tucked way up under dash..

into bellhousing..

into winch motor..

when backin up in possible night runs or settin up camp late, fishin late etc, i put on a rearward facing light.. put in a 6mm thick piece of perspex to protect light and keep corner rigid..

after winch goin in, a couple of fella's mentioned it may be better to keep an eye on things, volt wise, so got a gauge and hooked it up to run off the battery, not the alt.. the alt and battery will mimic each other but this way is a true indication of how its holding up.. for when the time comes..

also had the power steering pump out and gave that a reconditioning. grew tired of oober lube on the front of the fawdys engine bay.. i put new seals and bushes through it.. cheers jase.. just to finish a couple more wiring bits and i'll bleed it up whilst testing wiring things... also while pump was out, found the hole in the low pressure brass bush that sits in pump was too small, roughly a 4th that of the high pressure side. remedied that, reinstalled the lot..
more soon..