Water/Mud - What was I thinking?

[Morton]

looks like you went in to hard, this throws to much water into the fan/cowling area & drops your revs & momentum, you should have made that easily if you where slower, creating the 'bow wave" which inhibits water & actually sucks you along giving you constant momentum & torque, but what the heck, we have all done it haha

[cgm]

Great write up mate. Good thing she's still running.

Check the gearbox/diff oils.
I blew my lux gearbox as the top seal wasn't sealed proplerly and water went in there. Drove it like that for a week then it went boom!

Yep, both diffs and gearbox had to pumped out and flushed about 4 times before it looked pretty clean. I'll get them checked again next service as well.

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[cgm]

Two comments about too much speed. Looks like it is obvious I'm a sand driver. Ha ha

I'll have to keep it in mind for next time ...

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[cgm]

Hi Guys,

Just a question about the winch after such a dunking of the car. I have a Warn XD9000 (fairly old, like 8+ years) and it wasn't used while I was submerged, but it was sitting in the muddy water for 20 minutes or so all up. Having seen the sludge that came out of the diffs I was wondering do I have to worry about doing any maintenance on the winch? Are they pretty well sealed normally?

Obviously it would be easiest to stick my head in the sand and ignore it. It is a lot of work to pull the bar off to get the winch out, etc., but if I'm going to wreck it otherwise I guess I'll have to.

Interested for some input from the experienced.

Thanks,
Cameron.

[BigRAWesty]

Hi Guys,

Just a question about the winch after such a dunking of the car. I have a Warn XD9000 (fairly old, like 8+ years) and it wasn't used while I was submerged, but it was sitting in the muddy water for 20 minutes or so all up. Having seen the sludge that came out of the diffs I was wondering do I have to worry about doing any maintenance on the winch? Are they pretty well sealed normally?

Obviously it would be easiest to stick my head in the sand and ignore it. It is a lot of work to pull the bar off to get the winch out, etc., but if I'm going to wreck it otherwise I guess I'll have to.

Interested for some input from the experienced.

Thanks,
Cameron.

A week or 2 to tear down and clean out, maybe a tube of grease and some minor parts..
Or take the chance or a complete rebuild when Its all rusted inside..

I'd tear down.. Best to be sure.

[cgm]

Kallen's probably right, but giving this a bump, hoping that someone who regularly uses their winch in anger in the wet might reply (MR?).

I assume they don't do maintenance every couple of weeks?

[93patrol]

give Mud runner a pm might be a good idea

[happygu]

Well done Cameron,

Loved the story...... and the pics ....

I pull my winch down every couple of years and it is always perfectly clean and dry, but then I don't normally sit submerged for 20 minutes.

I would check it out, just to be sure - you may be able to loosen off the bolts a little on the motor and gearbox and crack them open a little, to see if any moisture comes out - if it doesn't then it is up to you if you want to keep pulling it down.

You can drop your winch out, without removing the bar too, by just removing the bottom bash plate.

Mic

[Drewboyaus]

Well that was just silly.... I would never attempt anything like that???? Ba ha ha ha ha!!!!!

Oh the joys of temporary loss of common sense... well done!!!

Yeah, what sort of idiot would do something like that? LMAO


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[cgm]

Well done Cameron,

Loved the story...... and the pics ....

I pull my winch down every couple of years and it is always perfectly clean and dry, but then I don't normally sit submerged for 20 minutes.

I would check it out, just to be sure - you may be able to loosen off the bolts a little on the motor and gearbox and crack them open a little, to see if any moisture comes out - if it doesn't then it is up to you if you want to keep pulling it down.

You can drop your winch out, without removing the bar too, by just removing the bottom bash plate.

Mic

Thanks Mic. I'll see how hard it looks to get out without the bar coming off. Might be good to have a look inside anyway. Pretty sure this is the only time in its life it would have seen water. Very dry here. Having said that maybe the seals could be dry and not working.

Guess I'm answering my own question really - just don't want to listen to myself.