Not your usual winch dilemma.
03-12-2014, 10:14 AM
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Not your usual winch dilemma.
Not your usual winch dilemma.
To make a long story short I am selling my beloved Land Rover Discovery II to fund my JKU project. The winch question comes in to play as I have a Super Winch X9 on the Land Rover which has served me very well over the last few years on more than a dozen occasions and I’m also very fond of. Due to mods to the Landy I have leave a winch in place so the question is….. Which Winch? I
I can…..
1/ Leave the X9 on the land rover as a selling point, just buy another winch for the JKU, perhaps another Super Winch X9 as they can be hand for ~$600-700
Or…..
2/ Pull the X9 and put it on the JKU and replace it on the Land Rover with a new lower cost winch, something like the LP8500 which I can get for about $300
And….
If I leave the X9 on the Land Rover what would you guys recommend as a solid with for the JKU? I am looking in the 9,000 ~ 12,000lb range, I specifically don’t want synthetic line. Line speed is not an issue as it’s an expedition style build and I already have a rock crawler. I’m also open to Hydraulic.
Thoughts?
Dave
To make a long story short I am selling my beloved Land Rover Discovery II to fund my JKU project. The winch question comes in to play as I have a Super Winch X9 on the Land Rover which has served me very well over the last few years on more than a dozen occasions and I’m also very fond of. Due to mods to the Landy I have leave a winch in place so the question is….. Which Winch? I
I can…..
1/ Leave the X9 on the land rover as a selling point, just buy another winch for the JKU, perhaps another Super Winch X9 as they can be hand for ~$600-700
Or…..
2/ Pull the X9 and put it on the JKU and replace it on the Land Rover with a new lower cost winch, something like the LP8500 which I can get for about $300
And….
If I leave the X9 on the Land Rover what would you guys recommend as a solid with for the JKU? I am looking in the 9,000 ~ 12,000lb range, I specifically don’t want synthetic line. Line speed is not an issue as it’s an expedition style build and I already have a rock crawler. I’m also open to Hydraulic.
Thoughts?
Dave
Last edited by Range_Time; 03-12-2014 at 10:21 AM. Reason: spelling
03-12-2014, 10:33 AM
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Not your usual winch dilemma.
To make a long story short I am selling my beloved Land Rover Discovery II to fund my JKU project. The winch question comes in to play as I have a Super Winch X9 on the Land Rover which has served me very well over the last few years on more than a dozen occasions and I’m also very fond of. Due to mods to the Landy I have leave a winch in place so the question is….. Which Winch? I
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I can…..
1/ Leave the X9 on the land rover as a selling point, just buy another winch for the JKU, perhaps another Super Winch X9 as they can be hand for ~$600-700
Or…..
2/ Pull the X9 and put it on the JKU and replace it on the Land Rover with a new lower cost winch, something like the LP8500 which I can get for about $300
And….
If I leave the X9 on the Land Rover what would you guys recommend as a solid with for the JKU? I am looking in the 9,000 ~ 12,000lb range, I specifically don’t want synthetic line. Line speed is not an issue as it’s an expedition style build and I already have a rock crawler. I’m also open to Hydraulic.
Thoughts?
Dave
To make a long story short I am selling my beloved Land Rover Discovery II to fund my JKU project. The winch question comes in to play as I have a Super Winch X9 on the Land Rover which has served me very well over the last few years on more than a dozen occasions and I’m also very fond of. Due to mods to the Landy I have leave a winch in place so the question is….. Which Winch? I
Attachment 536918
I can…..
1/ Leave the X9 on the land rover as a selling point, just buy another winch for the JKU, perhaps another Super Winch X9 as they can be hand for ~$600-700
Or…..
2/ Pull the X9 and put it on the JKU and replace it on the Land Rover with a new lower cost winch, something like the LP8500 which I can get for about $300
And….
If I leave the X9 on the Land Rover what would you guys recommend as a solid with for the JKU? I am looking in the 9,000 ~ 12,000lb range, I specifically don’t want synthetic line. Line speed is not an issue as it’s an expedition style build and I already have a rock crawler. I’m also open to Hydraulic.
Thoughts?
Dave
