Brawn winch hiccup

Had to use my Brawn 9500lb winch a couple of days ago. When I went to spool the cable out to wind it back on in a more orderly fashion, the clutch would not disengage for free spooling. It worked when operated with the switch.

So I got on the blower and rang Brawn in Melbourne. The voice on the other side told me that that it probably was a vacuum lock due to the grease moving around inside( or something like that ) and that the winch was propably not used for a while( he was right, there ).

He advised me to wind the winch in and out for one revolution of the drum a number of times whilst trying to disengage the clutch with my other hand. It worked and the clutch is freespooling again.

So, there is a solution to everything.

Cheers, Willem
Never a dull moment