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  1. 20th July 2012, 01:02 PM #1
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    Dyneema rope + fairlead rollers - setup?

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    Just performed a winch upgrade and installed a Tigerz11 1200lb winch into my ARB bull bar. The winch came with Dyneema rope and everyone i spoke to said "you must run a hawse plate" The thing is I have a bull bar designed to use fairlead rollers. Using purely a hawse plate would enable the rope to come into contact with the protruding steel designed to take the fairlead rollers – under pressure, this could be a nasty situation J

    So, after some deliberations, a couple of beers, taking into consideration all this talk of rope getting caught up in the corner of the rollers etc, I decided to do some preliminary testing of the rope running through the rollers at all sorts of angles. I just can’t see how the rope would get stuck or damaged as long as the rollers are in good shape.

    So after purchasing a new set of rollers to ensure no rough parts etc, I installed the winch and failread setup.

    Can anyone tell me conclusively if I’m going to have issues? Anyone done similar – feed back etc appreciated.

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  2. 20th July 2012, 01:07 PM #2
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    On 4wd tv, they installed plastic rollers as a fella had a bull bar designed for a roller fairlead, they were black, i fail to see how the rope could get caught, but anyway.
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    I run a hawse plate but have looked at rollers before I got the dyneema if the rollers are set up right getting the rope caught would be a rare thing only likely to happen on an extreme angle pull, but if it did happen the the rope would be US maybe even break at a bad point of a winch op. I do think in on the whole the risk is overstated but you never know
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    I just fitted the nylon rollers from ARB.....

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  5. 20th July 2012, 08:37 PM #5
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    Rope Rollers for Synthetic Winch Rope

    While you're at it, you can tidy things up with one of these.

    I usually buy Daystar stuff from Expedition Exchange, but at the moment they don't seem to have the polyurethane rollers listed on their website.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHqZe3X8as"]Daystar Polyurethane Fairlead Rollers[/ame]
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