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I saw on one of the offroad shows that the suggestion was to use a winch rated at 1.5 times your vehicle weight-loaded. 4000# Jeep = 6000# winch minimum.
I think you will burn the motor up on your 2k winch.

Now for a short rant:
I don't know why people spend thousands of dollars building up Jeeps and then want to skimp on the winch. Come on. I know they are pricey, but this is the one thing that could mean the difference in sleeping in your Jeep and making it home at night. We've all been there.
For the extreme wheelers, winches are even more important. Guys are building Jeeps capable of going further than most people have the guts to push them. In one of these Jeeps, odds are if you need the winch at all, you need it to save your scrawny butt. Do you really want to hang off the side of a mountain on an underated, Chinese, knockoff winch? Not me.