Has your winch caved your roof in?

might be able to help you with your hdd crashed. if your close to newcastle!!! mm me and will chat
cheers

thanks chris but it was a few years back and the whole PC got binned at the time.

Ok anyone needs a computer cleaned cheap, repaired or recovered in newcastle area/ central coast, i need the work experince so i can get a IT job! I am currently doing CERTIII in IT (support) and looking to get into a serious position asap!!! I won;t ask for much as i am still learning and don't expect much for my time except what is reasonable!

oh and a reference!!!

That's one damm big winch in a very light 4by to be able to do that. Single pull most winches would be stalled just getting the front wheels off the ground.
Cheers Craig...........

One reason I have fitted a simple battery isolation switch to mine (just in case)

Trev, I found that those isolation switches you can buy with the big red plastic key are useless for the sorts of amps a winch _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx.

On my winch, I isolate it by a simpler method, which doesn't involve the large cables.

I opened up the Warn control box and found a small gauge wire that goes from one of the pins in the plug, to the permanently live solenoid pack. I cut this wire as close as I could to the soleneoid pack and added an extension piece of similar-sized wire to it. I took this piece of wire up into the engine bay and connected it to a simple toggle switch. The other side of the toggle switch is wired up to a fused power source. The switch is left in the OFF position, except when I need to operate the winch. Turning it to ON simply replicates the way the winch control box was before I attacked it! hahaha

Cheers

Roachie

Hmmmmm Bill

You can really complicate things.....hahahahahaha

As I have mentioned before...my positive winch cable isn't attached to power so there can be no issues when out bush or anywhere else for that matter. If the winch is required then I pop the bonnet, connect the winch cable via a wing nut, plug the hand control power cord in and it becomes operational. Takes about 15 seconds.


Cheers

Wayne


It is only electrically possible if your winch is connected to the battery.......LOL



Cheers

Yeh true Willem,
But I am one of those people who don't want to have to rebuild my vehicle every time i need to do something....LOL

Maybe when i retire i'll slow down a bit.....NAH!!!!!

A winch is something that, to me, should be on hand when required.... again that's probably just me.

My winch set up is the same as Willem's not electrically connected. To power the Winch lift the bonnet, undo the wing nut on the positive battery terminal, connect the winch power cable, do the wing nut up and your away.

I have also made a fitting so you cannot pull out the winch cable in the Free Spool setting. This fitting keeps the winch in the Engaged setting. OK if a spanner is used to undo the bolt holding the fitting in Engaged I may have a problem.

Peter