Wow everyone said and everything I read said clocking the winch is no problem, what a pain. Took me way longer than I wanted to. In addition when I got it all back together I realized that I had gone one position too far, the freespool lever would hit the winch mount big time.
At this point I put the winch on with the grille just to see what else of the grille I was going to have to cut and I decided I really like where the lever was, if I could get it to work where it was I wouldn't have to cut the grille at all for the winch.
Besides how often do you get to cut on little hole and use dang near every cutting tool you have at least once
The cutting commenced this winch plate was built to take it so I had to cut through multiple layers connected to a peice of rec tubing, to a couple of braces it took forever
Plated it all in and some creative time with the grinder and a roloc flap wheel on a die grinder and this is what I came up with.
Lever in free spool
Lever engaged
Turned out pretty nice if you ask me.
Time for some lighting up front too
So I pretty much have the front end buttoned up, winch is mounted ( need to spool the cable) grille is mounted, lights are in ( still need to be wired) radiator is mounted, need to double check I didn't forget anything to weld.
Still need to mount up some hood pins and the fenders.
So this is how Hortons new front end looks
That is everything bolted down and in place where it needs to be, got to take it all apart to paint tomorrow and get the lights wired up.
Side view, this view is 80% of the reason I embarked on this whole redo the radiator, move the winch journey. The winch moved back almost 5", the fairlead is way more protected now, although I may build a small front bumper now to help protect the control box for the winch.
I also got a bunch of the wires tucked up out of the way, still need to a bit more and wire gauges but this round is nearly done.
Oh yah and put the a working detroit back in, that is hopefully on its way
