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  1. 14th January 2011, 07:58 PM #1
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    How often do you service your winch?

    Not knowing the history of the winch fitted to my D2a, I decided that whilst I had the cable off to replace it with Dyneema that Id take it out and give it a whirl (I'm not a mechanical whiz, but I can follow instructions).

    I have a Warn XD9000. A bloke I met whilst in the Buckland Valley over xmas/NY was kind enough to send me a link for the service manual... nice people you meet in the bush

    Well. it took me about a 1/2 hour to remove the winch (had to remove the bash plate as well) then it was a pretty simple matter to take off the gearbox (10 allen head bolts) and get started. I have to say I was surprised at how little grease there was in there!

    Keeping organised was the key, as each bit came out I layed it on a board in order.

    A wire brush and some petrol did a great job of cleaning up each of the gear sets (3). There was some rust where gears had sat in water for some time but after a good going over with the brush, they cleaned up well and there was no apparent wear, and thankfully, no broken teeth! All this took about 1 hour.

    On the recommendation of my mechanic, I got some Castrol VMM grease and gave all the appropriate bits (following the instructions) a very good coating. (VMM has molybdenum in it and is very water resistant) and took about an hour or so to put it all back together.

    Then the fun part of remounting it the bar, God these things are heavy, even without the cable! I ended up using a trolley jack to ease it up behind the bar, once it was level, gave it a pull off the jack and quickly got a bolt in and the rest was easy.

    The operation of the winch is SOOOOOO smooth now. I was really surprised how easy (although it is messy) the job was.

    Just wondering how often you service yours (if you do?) and what is really recommended.

    Here's the link for the manual

    http://www.tacomaterritory.com/~ccorley/Manuals,%20articles/Service_Manual_Work_Sheet_XD9.pdf
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  2. 14th January 2011, 09:01 PM #2
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    Annually unless I get distracted by the fishing as is happening ATM

    I know you have just put it back into the bar with much cursing etc but if it was my XD9000 and it had water damage in the g-box Id be pulling it off again and stripping/ cleaning the motor as well. Despite their "name" lowmount warns have appalling factory sealing to the motor and with not too much corrosion the smoke will get out.

    ps a good trick for mounting them up is to put a couple of studs into the mounting nuts, lift her up, throw on another nut on the outside then you can muck around with the proper bolts from the outside.

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  3. 15th January 2011, 05:12 PM #3
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    Annually is good, but it depends on the sort of driving you do and how much you get into the water (and if its salty). If your dunking it regularly its probably good to do it more regularly or fit it with a air line for some positive displacement.

    I currently have three winches in my shed that I am reviving after they have been ignored. Doesnt take too much work. Its a bit of bunk though about the superior construction quality of the Warn winches though. The ironman ones I am taking apart are just as water proof and nearly identical. I think the difference is in the solenoids and the motors. Its always the solenoids that let you down so I got a solid state one from Tigerz11.

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  4. 15th January 2011, 11:42 PM #4
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    After the problems I have just had I am going to be completely striping my winch, cleaning, replacing the two bearings on the motor and re greasing every two years.

    See my recent thread on this.

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  5. 17th January 2011, 01:20 PM #5
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    Angus,
    despite the marketing you will find that "the solid state solenoids from Tigerz11" really arnt!
    They are "semi sealed" but still just solenoids/relays with moving contacts in a box... the biggest hassle with them is you cant really pull the casing apart to clean contacts without destroying the case/signal wires when they do fail. Like a marine outboard solenoid in that respect. Water can still get in and corrode so try to mount em high and dry or you will be replacing them regularly enough.

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