jonbar87

After a lot of research and reading about this winch shootout here, I decided to go with the Engo EPF1000S winch mounted to the RC hidden winch mount plate. At first I had it in my head to go with a Warn, but after reading about a lot of Warns that crapped out on guys and very few bad things about the Engo winches, I decided to go ahead and give them a shot. I should have both the winch and mount hopefully sometime early next week...can't wait.

A decent review of the Engo winches.

http://www.toyota-4runner.org/off-ro...0s-review.html

Sock Puppet

Let us know what you think, and post pics of the install!

jonbar87

I plan on it.

jonbar87

Rough Country mount came in. Very pleased with the design and build quality. Unfortunately the EPF10000s's are back ordered and won't ship until May 9th

smurfs_of_war

I still have this plate sitting in my garage waiting for Mother Nature to stop pitching a fit so I can install it. I look forward to your take on that winch too- I'm on the fence as to what I want. I was looking at Warn initially but likely got spooked by the same reviews you did.

jonbar87

Finally got the winch installed. All in all it went fairly well. Only required minor modification. As seen in the pics below, the hood unlatch lever and mount was in the way so I had to take it off then remove a small part of the mount and plastic on the back side of the latch which allowed the solenoid box to mount on top of the winch like it's supposed to.

Hood mount and latch in the way


Tight fit


Hood latch and mount trimmed to accommodate solenoid box


Had to remove a plastic mount on one of the transmission cooler lines to free up space for the cables


Cables run


Ford gave us a nice little hole to run the cables through


Installed


Such a clean look

heydustin

Looks great i love mine too

jonbar87

You have the rough country/engo combo as well?

heydustin

Nah rough country mount and knock off of warn winch thats wireless.

jonbar87

Yeah I wish I would have gotten wireless....just couldn't justify the $$$$ for the warn, although i'm sure it's worth it