Hidden winch?

My friend has a D2 that he wants to put a winch on, now I don't know much about the D2's so thought I'd ask people who do....

His is a facelift Td5 that he wants to fit a winch to but he doesn't want to lose his original bumper. He believes he's seen ones where the lower mesh bit in the bumper is removed and a winch rope comes out through a fairlead.

Is this possible? Has it been done and if so can you post some pics up please?

yes it can be done,downside is its a bastid to clean and u cant keep an eye on the rope to well

I figured that might be the case - it's not how I'd do it but it's not my car... Mine's high up and well recessed into the grille for maximum approach angle..

I would like to do this also but cost is restrictive ATM plus I don't go anywhere that I would need a winch. That said I do have horses and I could find uses for it if I had one.

Just don't want to spoil the look of the front of the disco

gavbriggs said:

I would like to do this also but cost is restrictive ATM plus I don't go anywhere that I would need a winch. That said I do have horses and I could find uses for it if I had one.

Just don't want to spoil the look of the front of the disco

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is the winch for dragging horse carcasses out when you are butchering them fer yesco's gav.

Should be possible, would need a small winch and very strong plates as it will be well below the end of the chassis rails, paul at [email protected] is doing a custom NAS on one of his bumpers for me, he might be up for fabing a custom mount?

If your doing it I would suggest fitting a air freespool as getting to the freespool lever will be a pain

mainlysideways said:

Should be possible, would need a small winch and very strong plates as it will be well below the end of the chassis rails, paul at [email protected] is doing a custom NAS on one of his bumpers for me, he might be up for fabing a custom mount?

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If we're outsourcing work he may as well send it to Pressbrake who's a member on here


Not hard to do a winch mount on a disco, just gotta measure up the chassis rails, bolt spacing and how far you want the winch to sit up/down and forward/back and probably about £20 worth of steel to build with



They don't need anything stupid like these for mounting into a monocoque frame

Yep and a sealed drum and move the electics up high!

Guess this is expensive, but the bumper looks standard: Discrete winch mount - Discovery/Range Rover., Winch Fitting Kits, Superwinch from PWS Engineering Ltd. - Old Wareham Road Parkstone

Yep and then if it's just plates it will be cheap to dip

Winch Mount Discreet D2; Bearmach BA176