Noisy winch?

Hello.

So half way through last weekend's off roading, my Superwinch started making a near ear splitting loud racket when spooling out. It is fine when pulling in but very noisy when running cable out.

I have heard noisy winches before (electric), so I guess it just happens, but does it mean its shagged/gonna break soon?

I had to run it in some mud at the weekend, and I guess running semi submerged in gloop has partially killed it.

It's only 6 months old, is this a warranty thing or does it happen to all winches eventually?

Btw, it sounds like the typical winch "bag of spanners" noise, just I reckon it's louder than usual.

Sounds painful almost

Any ideas...?

Cheers!

take it apart and clean it, before it breaks

This is do-able?!

I thought it a magical no-mans land inside that planetary gearbox...?!

Cheers

Mr Noisy said:

This is do-able?!

I thought it a magical no-mans land inside that planetary gearbox...?!

Cheers

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ive yet to delve into this world, but many of my friends have, one day ill get them to show me how to do it lol

Just that it's still under warranty, I assume this wiuld be covered, should I bother?

Mr Noisy said:

Just that it's still under warranty, I assume this wiuld be covered, should I bother?

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try it but id be surprised if the cover the warrenty after use in mud n water

personally i would take it tio get it serviced at a specialist...... or if when reading your manual/warrenty card you deside your warrenty is void then strip it down and clean it, cant be that hard......... not much to them no harder than stripping a starter or alternator


btw its g-man on lil miss' computer

stripped and cleaned me warn xd9000i winch and then put a new motor and bearings on it..a tad fiddly but nothin that patience cant cope with

who is patience? a friend of yours?

little-miss said:

who is patience? a friend of yours?

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i keep it in me tool box in case of emergency

wiltshire landyman said:

i keep it in me tool box in case of emergency

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along with your bottle of wiskey and large hammer

Cheers guys.

Yeah I'll give them a call next week to check, but I dot expect the warranty will cover an off road winch when it's been used off road

Ita not the motor that's making the racket, it's the gearbox. Should be able to have a look in there.

Trouble is with these cheap winches, if it needs spares you're fooked.

Will see anyway

sapred should be available for them.... you just gotta search

G-man said:

sapred should be available for them.... you just gotta search

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are you lisdexix?

Dyslexia for cure found

ffs don't you know what sapred is....

G-man said:

ffs don't you know what sapred is....

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nope

G-man said:

ffs don't you know what sapred is....

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red liquid emitted from the bark of trees innit.