Show us your winch!

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Found a ridgerider 9500lb winch for 500 bucks has anyone used these and what are they like.thinking of one for my gu

I bought the Ridge Ryder 12000 lbs with rope when it was on 35% sale. Paid $585 for it. I've never used it and it's way out of guarantee now.
I'll probably use it this week with a snatch block to pull the top half of a scribbly gum down.

I pulled mine apart before I mounted it to check how well it was greased and found it pretty good. I put it back together with some good RTV silcone..







I also discarded all the original cabling (I think it was 2 gauge) and made my own from 0 gauge. I mounted the solenoid in the engine bay and the controller plug under the dash + a spare rocker switch control in case the controller broke.

This is the difference in cable size now:




I might do a separate thread on it next week..