Tough call i don't have alot of room inside being a 2door but being able to remove it when not wheelin isn't to bad. Just thought it would fit were the muffler is and i think i'm still gonna take some measurements and see what i think

 

it can definitely be done. if you need, i'm sure i got tons of pics of a setup just like this and can post them up for you.

 

here are some pics of what the now defunct jeeperman did....







it worked and looked cool but i can't imagine that all the water, snow, mud, salt and crap that gets kicked back there would be good for a winch.

 

That JK is very clean

 

it's a SEMA jeep

 

 

I just got one put in, and I love it - Can't wait to go wheeling in a couple weeks, and hopefully I get stuck When you get stuck as much as I do, you need lots of recovery options ! I'll try to post up some pix later. And yes, FWIW, there's been lots of times I've wished I had one, stuck up against a tree on a side hill on a curve, on a tight tree lined trail, and the only way out is back, and the guy behind me doesnt have a winch. Or, maybe he's the one stuck....

FWIW, I got the MBRP exhaust (a lot louder than I thought, seems about 20 db louder than stock), and got a local shop to fab up a mounting plate. Cut out the cargo tray too, and it tucks up inside nicely. The trick was being able to keep the use of my trailer hitch, rather than running though the crossmember like Jeeperman did. So he "Frenched" the rear crossmember a little (about 16" wide), and the cable line runs through the gap above the crossmember, below the body. The trailer hitch still attaches, and the crossmember is reinforced with bracing (joists) inside, and a new top plate just down about 1" from the prior top. On the shop's recommendation, I went with the Smittybilt X2O-8, 8000 lb. unit, on their claims that it's waterproof (I guess we'll see!).

 

Sometimes a rear winch saves some time. Other times you still have to dig with a shovel. I was stuck in this lake and hooked my winch to the wife's minivan which had the tires chocked and was also strapped to our tractor as an anchor. Stalled the winch. (snatch block was at home)

Had to dig front tires and some of rear tires. Rear winch would have made things easier. But no way to get an anchor behind because of the distance from shore.

 

I know this is an old thread, but I was reading through and I've seen a lot of people posting about how it would be better to get the 2" receiver winch mount to go in the rear hitch. Well I thought the same thing when a friend of mine spent a nice chunk of change on a rear bumper with a winch mount on his diesel F250. But let me tell you, that thing has paid for itself so many times it aint funny! And most situations have nothing to do with offroading. When he was setting up his machine shop, we went around buying a bunch of used lathes and mills and stuff, and none of the shops we bought them from had anything to lift them up on the trailer. So all we had to do was get it up over the lip of the trailer gate, hook the winch to it, and up it goes. Makes loading something super heavy onto a trailer crazy easy! Especially when you don't have a fork lift or anything like that.

But anyways, the point of that was, if you just had the receiver hitch, we couldn't have used it because the trailer was on the hitch. But with the winch being above the hitch, we were able to feed it straight through the end of the trailer without it rubbing the line on anything.

 

One competition truck trick here is to rear mount a winch but run the cable through a tube to the front so can be used like a front mount winch. However if you hook the line to the front bar and take a loop off the drum through a fair lead out the back you can winch yourself backwards by using a snatch block on the loop. Hope this makes sense.