Warn M15000 winch poorly mounted or wrongly spooled?
Submitted: Saturday, Feb 21, 2015 at 16:01
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Roachie.kadina.sa.au
I was having a gander underneath the bullbar of my "new" Silverado just now.
I was struck by the way the winch cable is spooled onto the drum.
The cable feeds off the drum from the top, but the opening and fairlead are at the lower portion of the drum.
As such, the cable appears to have been dragging against the upper part of the aluminium opening before it passes through the fairlead. I can see the scrape marks where the cable has scored the aluminium.
So, now I'm wondering to myself....do I simply un-wind all the cable and then re-wind it in the opposite direction (so that it feeds onto the underside of the drum)?
There is no apparent easy option to turn the winch up the other way. I can see where the installer has chewed-out a large portion of the bullbar in a particular fashion so as to accommodate the shape of the motor on one side and a different shape on the other side to accommodate the gearbox.
For all I know the cable might actually have been wound on by the previous owner in the wrong direction.
It's been too bloody hot here to spend too much time outside mucking around, so I haven't even plugged-in the controller and ascertained whether the IN direction actually operates the winch in the correct direction yet.
I guess my ultimate question is: does it matter to the winch if it is operated the wrong way round....such that when pressing the "OUT" direction I am actually winding the winch IN?
I should know the answer, but for the life of me I can't be sure...so better to ask the experts.
Thanks in advance.
Roachie