Yeah, they are about 3". Guess they are only 3mm thick as I could EASILY lift them myself. I too wish to eventually add a winch. However, I agree that the current design won't work as is. I plan on having an accessory frame made that resides UNDER the aluminum cover plate and bolt a winch through to it. I hope to use the two accessory bolts in the bumper as part of the design (these bolt holes are clearly only for mounting fog/driving lights).

Cheers,

MJS

At 04:44 PM 4/28/98 -0300, Tim Smith wrote:

>Hi,

>

>looked at your drawing of PZ bars, nice.  I'm guessing the tubes are near 3"

>diam, is this true?  Any idea on the thickness of the tube walls, 3-6mm?, 6

>is pretty heavy.  It doesn't look as if the construction/assembly is

>intended to take a winch, even though the Syncro-16" shots show winch inside

>same bumper.  Was there another winch-mount version available?  Thanks for

>any info you have, bye. Tim

>

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<bold>Michael J. Sullivan

</bold><italic>Director of Catalog Design

Open Market, Inc.

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