landcruiser factory winch

red-devil · Post by **red-devil** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:22 am

to all the 80 owners

does any one have any inforamtion on the factory winch. i am thinking about wiring up a switch inside the cab to operate winch.
was thinking about using the ariel up/down switch.

any help will be great

Jono

mudzilla · Post by **mudzilla** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:44 am

G'day RD,, I have hard wired my factory winch in my 80,,put in 2 rocker switches in the lower part of the dash, there are holes already there. one switch is on/off ( to send power to the winch ) the other is a momentary switch ( dosnt lock ) for in and out..you need the on off switch so you dont accidently drive the winch ..

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:08 am

I guess coz your talking about switches your factory winch is electric jono.

I've got mine hard wired into the cab of my truck. I mounted my switches as close to the drivers door as I could so its easy to operate while driving and I can also easily access the switches from outside the vehicle without having to climb in to operate the winch. I got a couple of press switches with rubber boots on them to keep the mud and crap out of them and the boots also mean the buttons have to be pressed quite firmly to activate the winch so its a lot harder to accidentaly knock the switches and activate the winch.

I ran the feed for the switches through a emergency cuttoff switch (I think thats what they are called :?:

) so I can turn the power off the switches when I'm not using it, the cuttoff also shuts off the feed to the remote pins on the relay box so nobody can play around with the winch when the vehicles unattended.

red-devil · Post by **red-devil** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:27 pm

Sadam thats what i was trying to get across

do you have a wiring dirgram for the switches an i like the power switch too.

jono

albundy · Post by **albundy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:40 pm

Nice inside mud sadam, the sign of a true blue 4wdriver.
Al

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:43 pm

Its all wired off the remote socket on the relay box, I take it your winch has a plug in remote?

The live feed to the remote I looped back through the cuttoff switch then back to the remote and the two push buttons on the dash are fed by the cuttoff switch then paralelled onto the respective in/out pins on the remote socket.

Theres only 3 wires on my remote and its easy to work out which is which with a mulit meter

I brought all the switches from jaycar electronics if theres a branch where you are?

red-devil · Post by **red-devil** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:51 pm

yes there is a socket. problem is there is 7 wires.

on the remote there is a power light, over temp light.

im just a little too lazy to work it out. but i think i mite have a go this weekend at working out each wire.

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:59 pm

red-devil wrote:yes there is a socket. problem is there is 7 wires.

on the remote there is a power light, over temp light.

im just a little too lazy to work it out. but i think i mite have a go this weekend at working out each wire.

You only need to use 3 of them.... you'll work it out :thumright: