Oh, I was just trying to help Mario with his question earlier. I'm not sure if it would be possible to reach far enough in to move the lever on an Apex, but it looks like a tool might do the trick.
That would kinda suck if you’re stuck in deep mud…
Who knows. Ive only wheeled my whole life in mud.
This is the truck all Jeeps with beds wish they could beWho knows. Ive only wheeled my whole life in mud.
you can reach it from the top easy enough with the hood open, or at least I can. But I bought a solenoid clutch winch
this sucked, on 38.7” tires. But then again im not winching all day. I never winched myself out, ever, in this, but i guess at least everyone can see it.
Where are you looking at mounting it, somewhere other than where the RC kit relocates it to? I felt pretty confident with the hoses by the time it was done, there weren't any unhealthy kinks or bends, and they've shown no signs of collapsing 10K miles later. It would've been great to relocate the cooler a little higher up to fit the solenoid box of the Apex, and there was actually some wiggle room with the length of hoses to do that, but I was kind of locked into using their cooler mount bracket.
To the core support crossmember above the winch. The RC mount appears to go straight out from the lower A arm cross member, allowing more room between the winch and the core support cross member. With my winch skid at a angle, the winch is higher, ( and the zeon isnt the smallest winch) that will not allow the heat exchanger to stand up. Standing it straight up, the rotation of the heat exchanger is only rotating about 90DEG, anything past 90DEG is starting to kink one of the lines. I a couple more ideas im going to explore today.
Cool, that should free up some room for sure. The RC is mounted from the lower crossmember, and the bottom of the mount sits a little bit lower than the bottom of the IC. I just went out and measured, there's about 5" of room between that support crossmember and the cooler. If I remember, RC had me flip the cooler around 180deg in order to route the lines better, along with all the trimming and whatnot, to make everything fit in that position. The primary clearance issue going higher with their method is going to be the hoses that are on the top interfering with the support crossmember rather than their length or getting kinks. If you route the hoses behind the crossmember, they start getting real close to the crankshaft pulley. I gave it a try while I was doing the install to see if I could make room for the solenoid box but I ended up just relocating the box and leaving the cooler there. Wish I could've remote mounted the cooler somewhere on the frame by the transmission instead.
Looking further into this, I am pursueing a avenue of replacing the heat exchanger overall, with a aftermarket one. By doing so, instead of attempting to modify existing heat exchanger and cutting crimp collars to reuse fittings etc, just a simpler replacement. It will drive the cost up in parts, but overall quality of the end product will provide a performance increase, a simpler install, and a better package.
Yeah I'd be down for that, would you still be shooting for that mid crossmember for its location?
Still willing to be your test model if you need a Badlands with the disconnect!
Yes, in all the brainstorming packages I have come up with, I seem to keep gravitating to the solution of mounting the heat exchanger above the winch mounted to the cross member.
