Everything WRONG with a WARN 8274 - Step by Step HIGH MOUNT WINCH REBUILD GUIDE! 

Thanks heaps mate, it’s just infinite what you can do to them so I felt I should break it down, glad it was noticed and appreciated thank you 🙏🏻

I’m looking forward to seeing it too, been about 9 weeks wait so far 😂 thanks mate

Heck yeah if you can sort one then do it!

Absolutely mate thank you! Cheers for watching and commenting!

Thanks so much for engaging mate appreciate you watching and following along 👊🏻

Thanks heaps mate! 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

Thanks so much, I’m glad it was helpful, they really are quite simple a few watches of this and I’m certain just about anyone could do it following along 🙏🏻

Awesome mate cheers, tbh it’s a fair bit out of mine too as a qualified baker and an IT manager hahaha.

@@timmyhasheart Quite the diverse background Bro, interesting. Have a great weekend.

Thanks mate, thanks for checking it out 🙏🏻

Oh look dude it’s entirely up to you, what I’ve learned is road runner is quite slow but great for durability, OX for RPM & warn for good RPM and torque.

You legend, cheers mate!! Na sorry so what I meant is you can buy the upgraded Brakeshaft WITH a NEW large cam gear usually so you don’t have to try get the old one off but that package is out of stock Australia wide so you can only buy the one WITHOUT a large cam gear included, therefore having to get the old one off and in some cases destroying it in the process, like this time, but I remembered I had Tyler’s laying around cause he COULD get one with the large cam gear included earlier in the year so didn’t need his old one, and his wasn’t seized so yeah sorry it was a lot to explain in the vid haha. But if you’re a machinist you’ll have to hit me up on Insta I have a few jobs for you haha 😂

Thanks heaps mate 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Ahhh yeah I can list them off here: - Brake service kit - Bottom drum service kit - Gigglepin OR WinchGear brakeshaft upgrade kit - WinchGear OR Ballzy Bits freespool delete - Whichever motor you want out of Warn 6hp or RR Bullet - Bus bar kit to suit whatever motor you got. - DC88 Solenoid - Drum Brace Hopefully I haven’t forgotten anything

@@timmyhasheart thanks mate. Appreciate it!

I believe it’s for both brake shaft end float, so it only sits in one particular spot. But also those brass bushes have a habit of beginning to spin with the brake shaft and it retains it from falling into the housing and into the gears. That’s my understanding thanks for the comment mate!

I haven’t been around too many high mounts mate I’m quite green and 40% of my knowledge comes from people who know more than me, but I’ve seen 1 fail. I built a winch for my best mate and we just did a “stage one” to get it going, that had the stock brake and without the circlip retention the only other thing holding it in is that steel card with the dimples and so if that slips, then you get what happened to him which was the whole brake fell out the side of the winch then it’s game over, and that was up at the cape in palm creek, not ideal 👌🏻

@@timmyhasheart no, not what you want. I had that happen on my winch truck, I actually drilled and taped the house and put screws into that card to fix the problem.

Haha dem fed up head grabs and face palms had be scattered boy 💀💀

Yeah I have a shop press but it’s behind a built TD42 on an engine stand that I can never be bother moving ;) but yeah a blaster would have been bloody unreaaaaal!!

Hahahaha I’ll paint them back the right colour

You have to take the top hat off then slip the drum card up and it’ll release the drum. The old seized brakes can be a whole night job if they have never been apart. Heat, puller, hammer, and time 🙏🏻

@@timmyhasheart ok cool! I saw you doing something inside there whilst pulling the drum outwards, I just couldn't tell what you were doing. Thanks!!

Na bus bars are pretty common these days for them, most big fast winches come factory with bus bars now. And yeah twin motors are common, cars are heavier these days, and a lot of people are running 24v and really fast gearing.

Nice! Expensive breakfast my warn just takes 140w.

Yeah I think Jonesy paid $1000 for the core, $1800 on parts or there abouts 🙏🏻

It depends what motor you have on your winch mate, go to Road Runner Offroad & if you have a Bullet motor search Bullet Bus Bar, if you have a Warn 6HP search Warn Bus Bar. If they have none in stock you might be able to get them from High Mount Guy.

Ahh either road runner or high mount guy mate, both online stores!

Yeah you have a lot of good points and as I say, I’m 50/50, I have a red winch coming and I also have a built warn so when the time comes I’ll be able to say which I like better. However when I go up to Victoria with the race boys I’LL be the slowest haha, even with my single more red winch at 24v. Thanks for the comment mate appreciate it 👍🏻

I’m sort of 50/50 to be honest I have a red winch on order for my own car, which was $5000, and the winch in this video was $1000 for the core and then we spent about $1800 getting it to where it is in the video. To add air free is another $1000 so you’re pretty quickly at $4800. But I don’t think a brand new red winch is any better than having what we’ve built here, they’re both brand new to me. The perk for a red winch is a warranty, which is gonna be difficult to claim if you’re overvolting anyway, another perk is they run on grease and are very simple and have air brake and air free out the box, but a con is they’re not as easily changeable.. like I could get the red winch into the flats and it stalls cause I didn’t get the right gearing and then have to wind up double lining all all the nasty stuff and lose all the speed I’ve been working toward gaining - another con is you can’t listen to the ratchet to gauge load/if it’s stalling.. another con is the air brake, if you have total air failure you’ve lost your winch because the brake is permanently on without air. But if it were a warn then there are 1000 solutions, you could build it to a GP100 for twice the torque, you could go a twin speed, you could change the gearing all with just a few swings of a spanner. And with total air failure all you lose is your free spool and/or second gear. No matter what you do I think it’s a big investment and down to user preference for sure. 12 or 24 they both draw the same amps, anywhere from 300-400amp I think. It’s just at 12v your 300a is 3600w and at 24v your 300a is 7200w. But yeah it’s the same with a lot of things.. people want stupid money for the names they hear it’s just how it is. Cheers for the comment dude 👍🏻

Can’t maff, it’s actually $3800 not $4800 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Haha appreciate the compliment mate, but to be fair I just learned from fiddling, it’s all just shapes that fit other shapes at the end of the day anyone can get in and have a go 👍🏻

Yeah dude! Sh*** you not I’ve bought a kit and it had the actual aluminium retainer that you tap missing when I built mine.. same kit from the same company.. smh… 😅

For someone of my mechanical calibre, they’re exactly the same thing. 😅 They’re only 1/19 pitch difference, I pretty much use them interchangeably, except if I’m going into the engine block then it’s always BSPT.

@@timmyhashearttrue, as an old school fitter and Turner apart from pitch there is not much difference fair enough, 5 degrees of thread angle difference apart from pitch between metric and imperial usually. I only have bspt and bspp and thought npt fittings would be hard to get 👍

Thanks for watching and commenting mate 🙏🏻

I haven’t yet come across an 8274 free spool that actually works and I’ve built about 5 or 6 of them. And it’s a flimsy little fork that holds the armature gear in mesh, they’re known for popping out and leaving you plummeting back down a hill. So if it doesn’t work & is dangerous then I personally get rid of it, and then I put air free spool in if you want free spool which pulls like butter, so much better 👍🏻👍🏻 thanks for watching mate

It’s in the works sonny Jim!!

Haha thanks dude!! Well I’ll go double or nothing and tell you the reason I use vice grips is because it isn’t square enough to fit in a tap wrench anymore because one day when I forgot my tap wrench I welded a piece of rio to the end of it ;) Hope that makes you feel better 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@@timmyhasheart that's awesome, I love stuff like that haha.

Yeah tbh I paid $1000 mine was pretty medium condition, this one was $1000 too and again, pretty medium condition. Most things okay but a couple of things seized.

Hahahaha I rate it 😅😅

Hahaha na that’s fair enough, but I wasn’t gonna paint it with pressure pack it’ll just come off on the rope 🤙🏻🤙🏻

Not sure what you mean sorry 😇

Appreciate the suggestion mate but I love chucking music in my videos 🤙🏻🤙🏻

Tbh I find them on the cheap end of winches 🤷🏻‍♂️ red winches $7000+, GP $9000+, but you can pickup a warn for $1000 and spend $2000 on it for a pretty good base. 👍🏻 then have whatever ratio you want.

Haha yeah, I do have some I just always forget and they tear anyway 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️

Hahah get some Raven brand ones man, last ages

Haha yeah righto I’ll have to keep a eye out for them 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Haha exactly right mate cheers for watching 🙏🏻