Rear Winches - Lowering Down versus Hauling Dead Vehicles Up
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Rear Winches - Lowering Down versus Hauling Dead Vehicles Up
G’day NissanPatrol.com.au,
Being an electrical nuffy are keen to learn pretty please if lowering a Patrol or any big chunk of great steel down a descent length slippery hill could ruin an off the shelf say 12v rear mounted ute winch.
Have heard IIRC around the traps that winch motors do not appreciate being spooled out under power for too long?
Managed to sneak in a quick Google query earlier today and only seemed to come up with winch brakes ‘outwards’ are externally (gearbox) preferred versus inner drum brakes due to overheating/melting new age rope on their drum cores apparently?
As a secondary usage and more importantly a slow but highly torqued rear winch could hopefully help haul out dead/caput vehicles on super tight 40 point turn impossible tracks?