Got the Warn bumper and HD winch ready to install. How do I keep someone with a wrench from taking it away?

 

Go to www.tuffyproducts.com and click on winch bolt locker on the left side.

 

Or tie a pitbull to it

 

C'mon, thats way too easy


thanks,

russ

 

Put a couple tack welds on the nuts.

 

Well honestly I have the Warn front bumper, winch and a skid plate (it's a custom skid plate but, it's pretty much exactly the same as warns). Never the less to get my winch off isn't a easy task and that in it self might be enough to deter someone. The only way to the winch bolts is through the fog light holes. To get the fog lights out you need to really work at getting you hand up into the back of the bumper. With the skid plate in place this isn't easy! Without the skid plate it's pretty easy. Also I zip tied the Fog light wiring really short so to move them (the fog lights) you need to cut the zip ties first. Only after you remove/move the fog lights can you get to the winch bolts. But, since I needed to thread the thimble through the hawse fairlead before I attached it to the winch barrel (synthetic rope). Not to mention getting the D-Ring Shackle off the thimble isn't easy either. So while they certainly could do all this walking down the street with a winch with yellow rope, hawse fairlead, winch plate and D-Ring Shackle might be a little more than they bargained for! But then again maybe this is exactly what they want!


But.... to top it all off I have a custom bull bar which is directly over the winch. Since the remote is behind the bar they would need to remove the bull bar or the remote first to slide the winch and everything else forward. They better show up with a toolbox!

Don Myers

 

That Tuffy Lock is a neat idea, hmm, wonder how it would hold up to the Nebraska salt? I can think of some other uses for it too..

 

yea, i like the idea of putting a few tack welds on the nuts, there is no way they can take it then, and you dont have to worry about it holding up to salt

 

I left my winch at the store. It doesnt get screwed up by the road salt, and no one can steal it.

 

So let me get this straight - you drive down the road dragging MILES of winch rope, and if you get stuck, you just call the store from your cell phone, and they turn it on for you?