Thread: Took the Plunge on a Tigerz Winch

My Tigerz 12,000lb has been used 3 times in anger now, one was a full winch with no rest. The only issue with synthetic rope is that when fully wound out & on an angle, the locating lug nicked the rope & took a chunk out of it. It would be better design to have that lug- which is on the side plate- placed closer to the drum, or perhaps a rounder screw on the drum itself. Other than that it's performed well.

any of you guys have an issue with the length of cabling back to the battery???

ranga did. not enough of it.
Desitgned for jappers obviously.

Just coming on 2 years for my Tigerz, see
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-t...stripdown.html
for a 6 month strip down...

Since then it has been used heaps - my current favourite recovery included one stuck to the gills 200series in black soil mud. That 3 tonne luxo-barge just wouldnt get up out of the muck instead wanting to submarine. We had the 130 chained to a tree, a Hilux with Warn9000 chained to a tree and cut trees down to make a ramp to get the tank out of the mud. Im dreading how stuck it might get on thr Bathurst track this novemeber if we get early rain...

One notable thing is the Tigerz solenoids may be "sealed" but they still suck water and rust AND the solenoids dont have 3 year warranty so when they can die. I replaced the pack and made it a little more water resitant and will just keep the maintanence up to it.

Steve

vlad.....thought so......ben from tigerz suggested i might need to attach a run of 2 or 3 b&s to get it to the battery....I will let people know in about 2 weeks when i fit it....anybody else know for sure and approx which route to the battery and how much extra wiring

I had to do a double line pull last weekend. I felt the cable is too short for this and it is a bit hard to use a standard extension strap as they don't go through the pulley very well

Luckily I was only doing it to better position my camper when setting it up in soft sand

This is using a Warn M8000 that is 18 years old. I wonder how long the Chinese winches will last?
Possibly just as long if they get as little use as mine looks to have had. I've only owned it for 4 of those years and it is at least 3rd hand.

We found the power cables way to short for our use so we joined them with soldered joiners. The joiners were then sleeved with heat shrink. We get around the short rope with a chain and dogs. Its a good systen for our use. Did the same thing with a Warn on a Landcuriser we had before the landy. Never been short of rope that way. Have had to resort to a snatch rope on the chain at times as last resort but always got out.

Stace, unless Tigerz have increased the cable length, it will be too short to reach from winch to underseat for a fender.
I bought sufficient HD welding cable and crimped lugs for each end. Cables run from box along passenger chassis rail out through front panel and to the winch.

Steve