

Custom KFI Winch Install
Recently, we were excited to tell you about our experience working with KFI Products. With their help, we chose the brand new, SE45W Stealth Winch. The engineers at KFI are really great to work with. They helped us find the mount that would best allow us to use our new winch on the Sandrail. Let me tell you, this is a totally custom installation and finding a way to mount this winch was no small task. Not only are we impressed with the winch (we can’t wait to talk about that next week), but the guys at KFI are great to work with.
Disclaimer: This is a custom installation. Even though we worked with KFI to develop a solid plan for this installation, there were still moments when we held our breath. While this was easy enough that anyone could repeat our process, nervous types might be better off to take this installation to a dealer or a qualified shop. As always, the following is the process that worked best for us.
The first part of this installation was removing the hood from the Sandrail. Before we got started drilling, we wanted to test fit the mount. Remember, currently there is not a mount available for the Odes Sandrail. Based on the photos and measurements we sent KFI, they recommended the mount for the Kubota RTV900 Wide Mount (100470). Since KFI didn’t have the Sandrail and we didn’t have the mount, this was the first time the two were getting together.
It was a perfect fit! To install the mount, we needed to first drill holes through the plate on the Sandrail.
This is where the custom part is killer; we almost messed up and drilled the holes in the wrong spot. We did not think about the placement of the bolts in relation to the where the winch was going to mount. If we would have put them ½ inch to the left, I would not have been able to tighten the bolts for the mount because they would have been under the winch. Fortunately, we lucked out and they are going to work. That was a close one but it just goes to show that with these custom jobs, you really have to think of every angle before you start drilling. Like the saying goes, “measure twice cut once.” We set the mount back in and marked the two spots that lined up with the holes we just drilled in the Sandrail.
Using a center punch before drilling holes into the mount made the process go smoother. The punch gives the bit a place to sit and keeps it from walking when you're trying to get started. Because there's no walking, the chances of error in hole placement are reduced.
After drilling holes into the mount, we placed the mount back onto the Sandrail and made sure everything lined up. Once we were sure everything was good, we used a larger bit to countersink the two holes in the KFI mount.
Whenever you attempt a custom installation like this for the first time, there's always a lot of back and forth. When we finished the first two holes on the KFI mount, we moved back to the Sandrail to see where we wanted the second set of holes.
The line you see in the photo above is where the edge of the winch would sit. We needed to make sure that once the winch was mounted to the bracket, we could still access to bolts that would secure the mount to the plate on the Sandrail. With the new marks on the plate, we repeated the same process as above. Center punch, drill, test fit.
We used the new holes in the KFI winch mount to mark the plate on the Sandrail. Once the holes were marked, we center punched and drilled the plate.
When we finished, we had a total of four holes in the winch mount (all of which were countersunk), and four holes drilled into the plate on the Sandrail. We lined everything up for about the 1000th time, dropped a few bolts in, and confirmed that everything fit as it should. The next step was to countersink the holes that the winch would sit on in the mount. A lot of times, where the winch sits on the mount is more of a personal preference. In this instance, we opted to move the winch back as far as possible. But within days of completing our installation, we sold the same winch in the standard width to another Sandrail owner. For that installation, we opted to bring the winch closer to the front. There's not really a right or wrong position here.
After countersinking all of the holes for the winch to mount to the bracket, we were ready to join the two. First we had to slide in the bolts that would sit below the winch (the ones that mount the bracket to the Sandrail). Then we were able to bolt the winch to the mount.
Finally, we were able to get an idea of what we were working toward. We set the entire winch and mount assembly onto the Sandrail plate and got to work tightening everything down.
Once everything was tightened down and secured, we needed to choose a location and mount the contactor. The contractor is sort of the "brain" of the winch and it's where all of the wiring meets.
Because the Sandrail is a little crowded up front, we found it easier to remove the battery completely.
With the battery removed, it was a lot easier to get in and find a spot for the contactor. On the Sandrail, there are lots of obvious places to mount accessories. We probably would have had an easier time if we had chosen a different location, but we have several upgrades planned and we want to save space for future accessories. So instead of behind the dash or the big empty spot on the plate right next to the voltage regulator, we opted to mount the contactor directly below the voltage regulator and the CDI box, utilizing the small surrounding areas for our bolts.
A word of caution: if you don't plan to ever add any additional accessories, you may be better off to mount to a surface that's a little easier to access.
**Yes, that really was the easiest way to mount the contactor in the location we chose.**
From here it was time to do the wiring. The big cables are very easy; everything is color coded. The red cable goes to the positive battery terminal (which is also red) to the red terminal on the contactor. The same is true of the black cable. It really is foolproof.

















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