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Roadlessgear incab winch controller in Warn 9500TI

For the longest time I've always wanted a In cab Winch controller. Why? There has been few times when I had to help somebody else out and it was simply a pain in the butt to get my winch controller out and hookup. If I had something in the cab a flip of the switch and it would all be over. I did some looking around and found a company named Roadlessgear, I bookmarked their site and a year later I decided I really wanted the controller. I purchased the kit and installed it.

Tools: Time:
Phillips Screw driver
Few allen wrenches
Electrical Tape
A few small wrenches
 Approximately 60 minutes

I was rather amazed on how simple the project was. If I had to do it all over I could of practically built one myself with some wire and a few switches. I've been asked by a few friends for the wiring diagrams and to be frank. I've said NO. There was sometime and energy spent in figuring out the switches and silIm glad I spent the money because the instructions where very well written and accounted for nearly every configuration of winches. I purchased the rocker switches I later decided to use in my dash as replacements from 4x4Mods. Written by kizer, if you have any questions or comments about this install visit

 

The roadlessgear winch control comes completely assembled.
Side shot with the heavy duty switches and nicely crimped connectors
close up of the face with a on/off button and a on/off/on momentary toggle switch
Rear shot of the panel and wiring harness
In order to install in your center console you have to access it.

Start from either the passenger side or drivers side and gently peal back the upper plastic piece.
Normally I raise up the section just enough to slide my hand under then I slide my hand towards the passenger side and the retaining clips underneath popup.

After the upper plastic section is removed there is two screws just center of the console almost up against the windshield glass. Use a Phillips screw driver to remove the two screws.

Normally there is a ash tray in the right side of your dash. I just happened to cut it out a while back with a dremel because I knew I was going to do this modification.

If you still have your ash tray installed pull it straight out and in the back there is a screw that holds the lower section of the center console in place.

Start from the top of the center console and gently pry. Now with the top started grab the sides and gently wiggle back and forth while pulling the top down.

With the center console removed you will have a few things sticking out. Your climate controls and your radio and lower switch pod.

Front end shot of your center console area

In order to gain access behind your switch pod you will need to remove a total of 4 screws. 2 on the left and 2 on the right side using a Phillips screw driver.

The easiest way to feed your wires to your winch is to take a piece of electrical tape or something similar and wrap the ends so they do not snag on obstacles behind the dash. Trust me it will.

I didn't photo the route I took simply because I forgot.

The route I took was from the center console to the first grommet on the drivers side just above the gas pedal, into the engine compartment, along the firewall over to the battery, from the battery along the inner fender under the air box through the grill to the winch.

The electrical line provided is approximately 8-feet long. I used nearly every inch of it.

Remove the leads off your battery. You do not want to be arching and sparking on the terminals under your silinode cover. Lord only knows what could happen to a $1000 winch.

Use an Allen wrench or hex key and remove the 3 hex heads on the drivers side near the clutch.

On the passenger side there are two more to loosen using same Allen wrench.

There is a small cover that also needs to be removed. There is two Allen head bolts up top and there are two more just behind where my front spot light is in the picture.

Just a simple picture showing the loosened and soon to be completely removed hex bolts.

Behind the cover is the missing 3rd hex bolt that needs to be loosened. I couldn't completely pull mine out because I could not remove the little cover because my upper bumper hoop was in the way.

Just a side shot of the same hex bolt. Just loosen it as much as you can and the access cover should brake loose.

With a little wiggle the cover comes right off and now we have access to the solenoids and terminals to connect our incab remote.

This is a top down view for the entire world to see.

This is what it all looks like farther back.

I feed the orange wire up through the gap in the small cover, which just happens to be where the red main power lead follows.

Tail end of the incab control wire lead.

All three connections connected. One is in, out and ground.

This is a view of it all in place and tucked in place. When I say I used up nearly all of the line provided I was not kidding. The 8-foot length in my opinion is a perfect length. Any more would of made my install sloppy and any less would of been disappointing.

Rehook up the battery. On the back of the switch panel there is a ground wire connection and a power connection. I used the power connection from my cigarette lighter since I don't use it and I grounded to a nut that is just above the floor on the passenger side where the passengers feet would rest.

Since everything was hooked up nice and snug I gave the winch a spool in and spool out. ** Note ** The instructions provided show exactly how the wires are to be hooked up. In was out and out was in. So I just switched them around on the solenoids and it worked perfectly. You could out of laziness just spin the toggle around in the base and it would do the same thing.

I decided that I didn't want to use the provided switches so I purchased some rockers and built my own dash console. I took photos of the back of the roadlessgear switches for reference.

As well I took pictures of my current ARB switches so when I installed them in a fabricated panel I wouldn't loose track of what was what.

A bit of cutting and experimenting this is what I came up with. Sure the switches are a little bit cocked, but its my first attempt and so far my first attempt has lasted me roughly 2 months. Maybe when IM not so lazy I'll get it together.

Shown in the picture is left to right.
ARB compressor, rear locker, front locker, front spot lights, winch power, winch spool in/out.

ARBs working, front spot working as well as winch power.

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