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Just finished final cleanup of winch guts.
Looked like kilos and kilos and baby poo shoved inside and sealed ! Come out nice and clean after a bath in a blend of diesel and petrol.
Seals at motor end done a good job at keeping water out, mostly.
Inside of drum a bit rusty otherwise all good. Rotor in good nick.
Everything covered with Inox mx3 , and then all the cogs , regreased and ready to re-assemble.
Will bench test tomorrow, then good for another year.
Last edited by Hodge; 17th October 2019 at 07:39 PM.
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Just finished final cleanup of winch guts.
Looked like kilos and kilos and baby poo shoved inside and sealed ! Come out nice and clean after a bath in a blend of diesel and petrol.
Seals at motor end done a good job at keeping water out, mostly.
Inside of drum a bit rusty otherwise all good. Rotor in good nick.
Everything covered with Inox mx3 , and then all the cogs , regreased and ready to re-assemble.
Will bench test tomorrow, then good for another year.
Can you come over to my place and do mine? I'll make you a sandwich for lunch.
Can you come over to my place and do mine? I'll make you a sandwich for lunch.
As long as you're the one cleaning the old grease off and me doing the rest...
Honestly, if you want a hand mate, or anybody else for that matter doing this, I'm more than happy to do it.
I've now done this with several winches.
They're all more or less the same concept.
Yeh I had no idea about this potential issue either. I just opened up the air box to inspect the filter and give it a clean and saw some large black fragments in there. Turned over the lid and found where they had come from. Basically the original seal feels like charcoal it was so old.
Thanks heaps again @Cremulator mate!
Fitted our new ebay one just now after 18 years service on the oldy. Was becoming brittle too so really appreciate the heads up on your findings kindly shared mate!
These ones are a different profile to the OEM folks so do take note of the little instructions paper shipped within.
“Flat side facing out”