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I purchased our Patrol a couple of years ago and have been happy with it, when we looked at it there was everything we needed on the car and it was ready to travel. It had an ironman 1200lb winch, until now we had never needed it.
We pulled out the winch cable and securely anchored it and there was no movement from the motor only the clicking of the solenoid.
We packed up with disgust and once we got home had a look at the winch and noticed one of the terminals had corroded off.
The winch needs to come apart and the terminal replaced but has to have very large solder done.. can be a bit fiddly but not hard at all.. if not confident an auto elect would find this an easy job.
even tho it was already fitted to your bus, it shows these winches or over rated and over priced and fitted with cheap nasty components, hence the reason why I pulled mine apart and pissed the cheap nasty mild steel bolts off and fitted with high grade stainless bolts, then lathered all terminals with petroleum jelly, last thing I want to be not working if I get into a sticky situation
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