What stuff to use for sealing a winch?

goodday bill
how is every body
for mr warn maybe some gasket sealer there are several different so it may take time at a car parts or similar
we returned from up north spent a couple of days back in broughton got a few fish and we are now on the way back home
we found several reasonable 4w tracks not hard but a good to do around alice

steve

Just divert the flow of your old sump oil as it sprays out everywhere , that should keep it all rust free

when i last serviced mine i just used gasket silicone and it works fine,anyway water still gets in regardless of how well its sealed everywhere else as it gets past the cable drum into gearbox and motor anyway.cheers Paul

Roachie!, As owning a defender i have had untold experience on sealing things up!!....lol, STAG, mate, 50yr old product still on the market , nothing beats it.

Cheers Axle.

Mate,
It's easy. You strip the winch, clean out all the rubbish, grease it and put it back together. Every 6 months repeat.

Cheers

It's called winch sealing stuff, you fool

Roachie,

When I stripped my winch down and cleaner it up I sealed it up with 303, like a silicone product and it seems to work well.

Whilst I had it on the bench I contacted Lesley & Sons in Melbourne and asked them a few questions regarding the winch. They machine the surfaces next to the drum on each end and fit O-rings which does seal the whole thing. It a couple of hundred dolloars for memory - I didn't go down that path though.

If you know a machinist you may be able to get this down over your way.

Yep Stag is the go.
The Warn winch on the Humvee is sealed with O rings like was mentioned above, they also put sealer between the mating surfaces as you are doing and then when all the wiring connections are made they dip the whole thing in a rubbery solution which then seals everything. It is cleaned off the moving surfaces before it hardens and is a rea bugger to get off when trying to pull the winch down though ;-))
It also connected to the vehicles breather system where all the running gear is connected to a common breather which exits into the air cleaner. When in fording mode crankcase pressure is fed to transmission, transfer, drop hubs, power steering reservoir, brake system, fuel tank and the winch to keep water out.l

if its a low mount, best to keep the drain holes operational, because the water that gets in can then get out, and make sure you have a drain hole facing downward when its in the car.

Best way is run the cable out, and in again, when ever it may of been under water, some time in the next 24 hrs and generate some heat to help get rid of any residual water/condensation.

Painting all the internals with winding paint is a good way to stop any corrosion inside if it does get wet also.

Thanks to everybody for your responses......I have used the Stag and got it all back together.

One other little "trick" I did to it was to cut the white wire. This is inside the the solenoid control box and is one of the 3 wires; it went from the plug to the large POSITIVE terminal that has the cable from the battery attached. As such, it is this permanently-powered little cable that would provide the means for any mongrel to operate the winch with or without a plug-in controller. I added a suitable length of smallish cable to the white wire and routed it up into the engine bay. I had a switch under the bonnet which I used for turning on the shower's pump. It was a simple ON/OFF type of switch with permanent power supplied (via a fuse of course). I changed that switch over to a SPDT?centre off type and added the lead from the winch to it. (I can't ever see a time arising when I'll be wanting to use the winch and the shower both at the same time. Most of the time the switch will sit in the middle (OFF) position, but can be flicked one way to enable the winch or the other to turn on the shower pump. Jeez, I dunno why everybody says I'm stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha