I've put my project of relocating the WARN controller under the hood on hold for now. I haven't had time to make a mount and don't see having a lot anytime soon, so I just hooked it all back up with the short controller cables and mounted it back on top of the winch for now.
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FINALLY got this winch controller pack relocation project done. Man, it seems to take me forever to get things done. Anyway, here's what I did.
I did the Buick Air Box mod previously, so I used these three holes as my mounting points. The three bolts install from the underside.
Got longer cables from Batterycablesusa.com and got them on the controller box. I thought 3 feet would do it, but I actually needed about 4 feet to have a little bit of slack available. The original positive and negative cables that came with the winch were reused.
I got this mounting plate from WARN off of Amazon or eBay, I don't remember which one.
I cut some pieces of 1 inch square tubing that I had laying around...
...welded them together into this, added some nutserts and painted it with some Rustoleum Textured paint.
Then mounted the controller too it. I drilled new holes in the plate because the upturned sides wanted to collapse when I tightened it down. It's originally designed to have the heads of bolts in there and those are supposed to keep them from spinning when tightening the nut from the underside.
Installed everything, routed and zip tied cables securely. I used and old radiator hose as a sleeve to run the cables under the radiator and out to the winch. I also used a couple pieces of the old radiator hose to protect the cables where they were close to the edges of the inside of the fender.
Everything tested and finalized.
