How to FIX any WINCH on your 4X4 

Great content Fella’s. would recommend smothering all the electrics with dielectric grease as an extra water sealer.👍

My winch has shit itself, thought I'd check RU-vid and here you are fixing the exact same winch. Great video , cheers

Great to see someone actually fix the problem rather than waste the money to replace it. Keep up the good work.

Thanks guys so good to know all about fixing my winch.

Well done. Just what I needed to see. Had mine in bits today. Cleaned and regreased. Still clicking.. solonoid tomorrow. Thanks.

Great video guys, was very shocked at how clean the guts of the winch was, when you pulled it apart.

The Grande winch was made by Tigerz11, which was bought out by kings maybe 7-8 years ago. They were quite a good winch for the price.

Excellent vid. Informative without all the waffle and without being tedious, well done !!!!

Great video guys 👍🏼. I'm 15 and can't get a 4WD yet but love watching these types of videos from you guys.

Good video boys. Love the old lathe and tools in the workshop. Shows you don't need all the expensive tools to get stuff done.

Keep up the good content guys! I’ve been procrastinating servicing my control box and this video prompted me to finally do it. Cheers 🤟🏻

love your work guys. actually pulling apart and fixing instead of just replacing. inside of my cheap aldi winch was the same. i expected much worse after having it submurged multiple times

This channel is so under rated

great to see young fellas off the playstations and wheeling

Another great video. A practical easy to understand how to on something we all will need to know sooner or later. Nice stove and lathe by the way

Great stuff brother. I will try to fix mine tomorrow.

excellent fix. I loved the look on the face when he punched the button and the battery wasn't connected. 😂👍

Good job well done! exactly what I have done in the past.

Awesome channel looking forward to seeing you guys grow keep up the good work stay true to your self and your fans don’t let Fame change you all

Well done young fella might have to try this now my winch power light is low and stopped working after going through some water

great video guys. very helpful.

Awesome video guys have just had similar problem today of winch out ok but not in. Im now subscribed keep up the great work. JD

Awesome mate, howcome someone so young knows so much about fixing stuff. Amazing.

Well done, thx

My kings winch/solenoid is making the same noise, after watching this vid im going to pull the solenoid apart tomorrow, great video very informative, hopefully that's the only thing wrong with it. Cheers

Well done mate good vid mate loved it 👍

Super helpful vid boys!

Great ingenuity there guys, another option for the future could be a 3D printer, you can print out the custom parts you need using different types of plastic such as TPU for gaskets or ABS for external fittings. You can buy a decent printer for a couple of hundred dollars

Really liked the tear down. Stuff i noticed is often when coils are wet like the solenoids, sometimes it creates croision on the coil, cuasing the coil to ark and short. Might be better off just getting a new box or solenoids or i guess if you got protection before battery it wont matter until it fails. The drainage holes on the box is probably to allow water to exit (ideally), If it was totally sealed, as temperature outside heated up and cooled down air and moisture would slowly make its way into the box though that expansion and construction. With this then comes internal condensation causing water to become trapped and kill the internal elections. It's a common fault on solar lights and stuff. Downside i guess is if you do a river crossing or bog hole and water enters :(

Great video Boys

Handy video.

Nice vid young man,avid fan of GQ patrol cheers from the Philippines,keep safe

Love your videos, we should go on a 4wd trip together. I'm from NSW and rock a mercedes x class 350d edition 1, I'm pretty keen to get it out on the tracks

my free spool was hard to pull out fixed it by pulling the gears out and changeing the grease as my one had way to much in it .. once i changed it i can now basicly pull it out with 1 finger haha

Cheers legend, you've inspired me to do mine as its starting to need a tap to get it to winch in haha and its also hard to free spool🙌

To fix freespool, pull the gearbox apart, hit it all with degreaser, and put back in new grease, but not so much, and use good quality grease. Not that red stuff, the green waterproof stuff is pretty good, but anything with moly in it will do the best job.

Cheers boys very helpful

to make free spool easier pull the gearbox apart, and on the sleeve that the free spool knob moves in and out to engage, ensure the outer sliding surface is clean of any excessive amounts of grease. i like to use som light oil on mine. this should make spooling out easier.

Shit go!! ‘Fix any winch… but…um…actually nah don’t worry about it’

good job thanks for the good content

It’s hard to unspool probably because someone has rebuilt it in the past and used wheel bearing grease or something similar that is to heavy. Probably last longer actually as a result.

Great Video boys

Cheers legends, fixed mine today had the same problem 🤟🍺

that wire wheel has me dead😂😂

I recently saw a video from Ed China ( formerly from Wheeler Dealers) using a solution of Vinegar 12 cup and 2 Tbl Sp. of salt to remove and clean copper wires that were suffering from corrosion- then neutralising with a solution of water and Bi-Carb of soda.

When ever i install a winch i take the solenoid out of the cover and mount it inside tge engine bay so you can spray it with crc and visually check its condition every time you oven your bonnet

Great video, but please remember to use your safety gear when using the tools (grinder/lathe, etc) 😉👍🏼

I’d keep those hoodie strings well away from that lathe!

Did this and it was fairly clean to start with , didn’t fix it unfortunately Inside of the winch looks similar to yours once opened nice and clean , Put it back together and tried to bump run the winch with some jumper leads off a battery, still no luck. Any suggestions where to go from here

Nyyyyyice.

Ayyye we need vids of gq going bush badly

The winch is hard to pull out because it has excellent seals. I had a Tigerz and now a Kings and they both do the same thing. But they both are perfect inside, unlike other name brands which freespool easily but let water in. Just use the motor to spool out.

Well done Cobra ya got it goin again. Hey the same to my warn xd9000 winch but the crease was cooked so cleaned it all up and re-greased it. Now it will pull but won't hold the weight on the line it will free spool back instead of holding the tension. Do you think I put the gears in the wrong way or something else?

good gob

Hi Boys, great video, but not much of a challenge for you. If you can find another old winch, clean it up and mount to the rear of the patrol. Do the wiring and test it out Regards Alex

Did you work out why the cable was hard to pull out? My winch has been getting harder to spoil out over the years.

Use a bit of dielectric grease on all your solenoid rubber gaskets boys, it will help to keep water out of there 👌

winch binding due to distorsion when bolting to winch plate shimming required.

Grande was the original super centre winch before tigers 11 before kings

Tried to buy a sticker and your website is down

to much grease in the gears causes pressure which makes free spool hard. dont pack the gear box full of grease

I’m hoping the hilux I’m getting winch works

If its anything like my grande winch u will find the planetary gears have begun rusting and probably siezing up. Its the beginning of the end of that winch

Not sure if anyone commented it but Grande means big in spanish

next time pull your winch rope out put it in free spool gear and press out on the winch when pulling on the rope out heaps quicker

It'll save you a few bucks

Good vid. But PPE man! Protect your eyes when you're using a wire wheel!!!

Wash the synthetic rope, or the dirt/sand will break it

You didn't show if the rope pulls out any better. Can't see it would as nothing was changed. As below it might have to much grease

that patrol is loud with the bonnet open...

Too much grease is why free spools tight

Get yourself a roller fairlead and save your rope.

Far out looks like a bucket grandad spec

Hyundai is one propellers

Dude no! Change the grease in the gear box!! Use a marine grade grease. It will make it run a million times better. Will free spool out way easier too

buy a high quality winch in the first place , when you really need a winch you do not want it to fail. Warn made in the USA