Winch performance

[DiscoGav]

Gday, I have a Tabor 9k winch fitted to a disco1. It is in a poor way, but i'm willing to try and give it a new life. I've never owned an electric winch and was wondering what I should expect it to perform like. Should it be powerful enough to drag the disco on a flat grass area all wheels locked? I've had to rewire the control box and clean all the connections. next is to pull the gearbox and motor apart its currently locked in engaged postion .

[NavyDiver]

Gday, I have a Tabor 9k winch fitted to a disco1. It is in a poor way, but i'm willing to try and give it a new life. I've never owned an electric winch and was wondering what I should expect it to perform like. Should it be powerful enough to drag the disco on a flat grass area all wheels locked? I've had to rewire the control box and clean all the connections. next is to pull the gearbox and motor apart its currently locked in engaged postion .

Link (http://www.warn.com/truck/winches/src/tabor_9k.shtml) looks like a top unit. Be carefull when reattaching the gears. A mate cracked his warns casing. His only reassebled if alligned exactly. mark the case and gears with a texta to help get that bit right!

degreese and lightly regrease it. Use good Molly grease or good marine grease just not too much. Have a look at the servicing aldi (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-tutorials/105107-aldi-winch-replacing-grease.html) Deejay put up as there is little diferance in the process

[stig0000]

it should easly pull the car, maby not qwick but it will have to pull it,

my tigers 11 slows down with not much load on it but the more load you put on it ,, it just keeps pulling allday long, i havent stalled it out yet, ither the bogged car gives way,, or the tree im straped to dose, or in one case i pulled the front chassie mount off a pootrol,, thank god for rope, just fell to the ground

[rovercare]

it should easly pull the car, maby not qwick but it will have to pull it,

my tigers 11 slows down with not much load on it but the more load you put on it ,, it just keeps pulling allday long, i havent stalled it out yet, ither the bogged car gives way,, or the tree im straped to dose, or in one case i pulled the front chassie mount off a pootrol,, thank god for rope, just fell to the ground

Thats why the cheap winches pull till self destruction;)

[DiscoGav]

Thanks all, sounds like it should have more punch than it has, I've taken the engage/neutral switch out and looking in the hole the gearbox has a farm of corrosion, the motor is probably the same. Also the bars on the back of the winch separating the gearbox and motor are missing the alloy housing is cracked where the bolt on would this be allowing the winch to flex forcing the drum to bind up?

[stig0000]

Thats why the cheap winches pull till self destruction;)

i dont think there realy a cheap brand enymore, ;) it dose have that over heat and load cut stuff,

[NavyDiver]

Thanks all, sounds like it should have more punch than it has, I've taken the engage/neutral switch out and looking in the hole the gearbox has a farm of corrosion, the motor is probably the same. Also the bars on the back of the winch separating the gearbox and motor are missing the alloy housing is cracked where the bolt on would this be allowing the winch to flex forcing the drum to bind up?

The brand sell spare pat meaing it might still be salvagable if it is more surface rust. Given some of the prices of new ones it might be close call for cost if the housing is cracked. Sounds like it has had a tough life with no maintence. The bars on the back of the winch are 50% of what holds it together. It may be dangerous to use under load if it is the bits I am thinking of