warn winch- winds out:wont wind in

Cant help you with the diagram, but with a test light you should be able to work it out in a few minutes.

When you wind out, one solenoid will energise and supply power south to the winch. Hold the test lamp on the output from solenoid to winch and flick the switch, solenoid should energise, winch should wind out and light should come on! The other may energise (clicking noise) but winch wont winch in and light wont light!

If the power to the suspect solenoid IS present on the other side then the solenoid is US if there is no power above the solenoid, then the problem is before that (I though there was a few solenoids??) Just keep working back till you find the suspect component!

Goodluck

Matt.

Platypus my Warn has developed the same problem. although now it won't go in or out.

Last time this happened it was traced back to an internal earth wire inside the casing so I was told by ARB who fixed the problem. Not a solenoid issue.

Now as I said it's done it again so I will have to have it looked at again.

There are 4 solinoids in the control box and any one of them can cause this problem. It's either a dirty/coroded contact or a bad earth, or a u/s solinoid.

The earth strap is only a small wire that is often put under one of the securing bolts for the control box, it needs to be a clean contact, so this is worth checking as well.

G'day platypus
Try this site, it's for a high mount but wiring should be the same.
www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/8274
If your earth wire has a dirty contact or broken the winch wont work in either direction.
Hope this helps.
Safe travells

Jim-Bob

Most of the problems with my winch are usually operator error codes.........

Tirfor (Keep it simple for stupid)