etrailer Hawse Fairlead ATV Winch Installation - 2018 Kawasaki Teryx4 800

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Hi there operators Today we're gonna be taking a look in showing you how to install etrailer's 5,000 pound winch on our 2018 Kawasaki Teryx4-800. And this is what our winch looks like when it's installed. It mounts directly to the plate right here at the bottom of your Kawasaki. There is some drilling required in order to get it in place, but all in all, it's a pretty easy installation 'cause everything's kinda right out open, right out in the open here at the front. This winch offers a 5,000 pound capacity, which is more than enough to pull our Kawasaki out of any sticky situation. The hook on the end is a nice and robust hook here.

You can see it's very large and you've got a lead on it so you can easily grab the hook. This is really nice, especially if you're in colder weather grabbing on the hook here could be pretty cold on your hand for metals a little bit more abrasive. So this is nice, you have a little easier cloth to grab and pull this out more comfortable for you. The fairlead comes included in bolts right up to the bracket. This is designed for the synthetic rope that we've got here.

Synthetic rope is lighter and it will last typically longer than your cable 'cause there's corrosion free. You'll receive all the wiring and relays switches that's required to get this installed. The controls are gonna be located under the panel here at the front. So we'll just slide this out of the way. Here we can see our controls where we can operate it in an out and you get plenty of cable length here so you could easily be far away.

If you get stuck in the mud, you can make your connections over at the tree stand over by the tree and use the remote there. You'll get plenty of stick gauge wire. So you've got an appropriate gauge to operate your winch so you can ensure that even under extended use, you're not gonna burn up any of the wiring since we've got all appropriate gauged wires. We'll begin our installation here at the front of our Kawasaki. We're gonna be mounting it to the plate here.

This plate here at the front, the skid plate here on the bottom we need to get out of the way 'cause we're gonna be drilling out the necessary holes that's gonna line up with the included bracket that comes with your winch. These don't line up with the preexisting holes so we just gonna make our own. We'll use a 10 millimeter socket to remove the two bolts on bottom to get our skid plate out of the way. So now our bracket is gonna mount like this on top, but it's easier to drill from the bottom up. So we wanna make the bracket here, flush with the back and we want to have it centered. So many uses as a template, slide it on bottom and line that up, and then I'll use my paint stick to make my marks. You can kind of see the marks that I've made there. I'm gonna drill out the rear holes first then I'll put my bracket up and then I'll use my bracket as a template to drill out the two holes in the front. So I went ahead and drilled out the back too using a 5/16" drill bit then I slid the hardware that comes included with it and bolted it down with the bracket on bottom of the ears facing down again. This is just temporary. So we can use these holes here and use our bracket as a template. We're gonna drill out the two remaining holes that are located there now. So now we've got our holes drilled out, we can set our bracket right on top. All of our holes should line up. That was the main reasoning for using this as a template. So now we can line our brackets and our winch up. Just feed your winch and your bracket in. You're gonna have to have to line them up together if you can't quite feed them both in at exactly the same time as they will line up. So we're just gonna get these lined up and then we'll go up through the bottom in our existing holes and thread them into the existing nuts inside of our winch. And the reason why we're trying to go as far back as possible with this bracket is to keep the clearance away from our bumper here. So now we can go ahead and run our heartburn and attach it. However, the hardware that comes into your kit, the longest bolts are gonna be a 16 millimeter in length and they're not gonna meet long enough. If we look at the head of the bolt, it says it's an 8.8 on it, that's the hardness of the bolt. We wanna make sure when we replace it with a new bolt. We'll be using one of the same quality. So we're gonna s