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i would mount some sort of heavy duty relay in the engine bay for the winch. then use smaller gauge wire to run to the switch in the dash wherever you chose.

does this mean you want to run the winch from inside the vehicle? or do you just want the option to turn it on inside the vehicle?

most winches are dormant. they do not work or use power until you insert the wired remote control unit into the control box or turn on a wireless one.

at least that is how mine works.

another piece of advice. find a way to mount it so that a thief cannot easily steal it. some welding or even a well placed cable and lock.

i read about too many bumpers being stolen with the winches attached to them. i welded mine.

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For the wiring portion. In my opinion you dont need to add another relay to the circuit. Thats the job of the solenoid's in the winch's control box. Make sure that if you extend any of the big cables in order to get the solenoids under the hood, you use the same or larger gauge cable than the factory winch. Welding cable is a good choice. If you wiring a switch in the cab there' a few ways to do it, but you want to have one separate switch probably with a flip open cover to turn the winch "on" and then one or two for power in and power out depending if you want to use one switch for both power in/out or not. Check this guy out for ideas.

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