Today on our 2003 Ford F-250, we will be installing the Superwinch Trailer and Vehicle Electric Winch Wiring Kit for up to 16,500 pound winches, part number, SW2008. In today's video, we'll be using the Superwinch Talon 12.5i, part number, SW1612210. We're going to need to remove the positive and the negative wire off of the winch itself and replace it with a short leads that come with the kit. Now, it's a good idea on your quick disconnect plug to go ahead and mark the ends of the wires that way you don't accidentally mix them up. Put a positive for the positive side as well as a dash for the negative side.Now, depending on your winch, the removal of the cover to get the positive side off might be a little bit different than hours. But for ours we'll need to remove these 4 Allen head bolts right here up underneath the cover.
Once they are done, we'll need to remove 2 more Allen head bolts here on the end as well as 5 Phillips head screws up underneath that will allow us to remove the cover. Next, we'll go ahead and fish the red wire out of the grommet here. Once we pull the red wire out, we'll go ahead and fish our new positive side through the grommet into the area where we'll be making our connection.We'll go ahead and take a couple pair of pliers and hold the end of the positive side is we need to bend the end of the terminal into 90 degree to make it fit properly on our particular winch. Once that's done, we'll go ahead and take the protective white cover and slide up over the fitting. Next, we'll go ahead and reinstall the hardware that we took off the red wire to begin with.
Now, that we have our positive side connected, we'll go ahead and reinstall the solenoid covers and reverse order that we removed them. We'll go ahead and roll our winch over as we'll need to remove the original ground wire or negative side wire.It's this black wire right here held in by the bolt. We'll simply unthread the bolt and remove the old ground wire. We'll then go ahead and connect our negative side of our quick disconnect to this point. We're actually going to reuse the negative cable that we just removed from our winch as it's a little bit longer to give us enough length to reach from the negative side of the battery down to the vehicle's frame.
Now, we went ahead and took a round file bid on our drill and cleaned off the frame to make sure that we get a good round connection. We use the self-tapping screw and ground it to the frame.We'll go ahead then and route our wire up and connect it to the negative side of the battery. Now, we're ready to run our plug from the rear of the vehicle all the way up to the battery where we'll be connecting in to the positive side. Now, in order to mount our quick connect plug, we're going to go ahead and use bracket, 118136. Now, we'll go ahead and mount our bracket here to our hedge at the rear of the vehicle.
Once we have that done, we'll go ahead and hold up the end of the quick connect bracket where we'll mark the area where we need to drill two holes.Once we have each of holes drilled, we'll go ahead and take a bolt and a nut and secure the bracket and the quick disconnect. We'll go ahead and pull our wire up towards the end of the vehicle. Now in routing your wire from the rear of the vehicle to the front, make sure you stay away from many areas that may move, become hot or have very sharp edges as this could damage the wire. We use several zip ties along the way to help secure the wire. As for routing the wire, choose the location on the frame here that will ground the negative side of the quick disconnect.We'll go ahead and use the self-tapping screw and connect it to our vehicle frame. Now that the negative side of the quick disconnect is attached, we'll continue routing our positive side up to the battery. We're also going to use a few sections of 1/2 inch diameter wire loom to protect the wire and a few areas where they come across parts of the frame that may damage the wire. You can purchase the wire loom by the foot which is part number, 459075-1. Now, we have our wire pulled all the way up to the front, we'll go ahead and connect it to the positive side of the battery.Once that's done, we'll go back and sniff off any excess zip tie to help clean up the look. Now that we've got the wiring complete, we'll go ahead and plug in our winch to make sure everything is working. With that plugged in, you can see by pushing in on the rocker switch, the winch winds inward and push the opposite way and the winch real out. That's all there is to installing the Superwinch Trailer and Vehicle Electric Winch Wiring Kit, part number, SW2008 on our 2003 Ford F-250. .