I don’t want to cut any corners on this build so I called the guys at Warn and ordered up a winch. Utility quads should all have a Warn winch mounted on the front especially if they are being built for mudding. I got into installing the Winch Late last night but quickly found out I was missing a key component to the install, the winch mount. You can’t install a winch if you can’t mount it to your quad. “Well that sucks!” I probably forgot to grab the box or worse yet someone else in the office grabbed it by mistake. 

Regardless I loaded up the Brute Force and took her home. I figured I only have five more days before her racing debut, I might as well get her all wired up so when I find the mounting plate I can just throw the couple bolts in and then connect the two last wires on the winch and call it good.

The above photo is my favorite. Hahahaha, LOL! No, I am not a hack I pulled everything out to get started on installing the winch last night and decided to get some sleep instead. Now I could of put everything back in the box but it was much easier to just throw all the wiring on top of the machine and push it back into the garage. While running the wires I noticed a couple of the wires where a tad bit long for where I decided to mount the different components. if you don’t want your install to look like the above photo learn to solder or have a professional install the kit for you. I used to work at a car audio shop so I know how to solder and am pretty good at running wires neatly as you will see in the last two photos.

I found it easier to work on the Brute force with the rear rack and plastics removed. I really did not want to remove them but the electrical tray under the seat was restrictive and I found it easier to just undue a couple bolts then fight it all day.

I also removed the front piece off the handle bars it allowed easy access to running the winch controllers cables and also allowed me to easily see if they had enough slack when the bars where turned fully in either direction. 

Two tools that really came in handy for this install where a soldering gun for connecting wires together and a heat gun for shrinking the shrink tubing over the soldered wires as shown above. Having the proper tools not only makes the job easier it also makes the final product look better.

Back on the electrical tray things where looking tight. I wanted to install both the Warn wireless receiver box and the Warn contactor in the same general area and make the install look very clean and as stock as possible. To do this I had to remove the stock tool kit, cut a couple things and relocate a couple of the stock wires.

The two above photos shows the outcome. I still need to tuck away the light blue and yellow wires, they will run up all the way to the front of the quad to feed power to the Warn winch.