The motor on my warn 9.5 xp winch died recently, and embarrasingly, while I was making a video. So i decided to tear it apart and see if I can get it running again. Of course, it's not just that easy, so join me as I get it figured out!!
Just doing mine now. Mine was as bad as yours and still working! Warn motors are incredible. Wish I had your forklift when taking my ARB bar off - that’s cheating mate! 😂
Never owned a winch until today 6-27-24. Enjoyed the video. You did a great job with all of that. Lot of work. Picked some cool music too. Wondering who does that? Good vibes.
I'm glad you liked it. Just like I do all my own work on the truck, I do all the video and editing work on the channel. Sometimes parole like the music, sometimes people complain. The internet never can agree... 😁 But thank you for the kind words, and for watching!
oh man, i am considering buying this winch. i am SO glad that i saw this video because i am making a custom hidden winch bumper for my xj and plan to mount my winch feet forward thank you for the information !
Good on you for having a go. Hopefully it will be good for a while. I hope you pulled the gearbox apart for a regrease? Its likely to be full of nasty crap as well. Working on stuff alone is always much harder (story of my life!). Well done. Ive done the same without a forklift, lots of fun...not.
I didn't pull the gearbox apart as everything was moving very nicely by hand on that end. And if I'm honest I was worried about not getting it back together right. So far it's working perfectly, but I feel like it's on borrowed time. I can buy a new motor from warn for 300 bucks, but for not much more there's Chinese winch options at 13,000 lbs rating. Those are tempting me, and could provide content for the channel... 😁
It's a 9500 lb winch, and honestly I would recommend the openroad4wd.com 13,000 lb winch before I would recommend the warn. I have the openroad on my truck now and I'm very happy with it. Now pulling power and less cost and it's the same size. All win.
@@user-ld5nj4sk5n it seems to be from what I can tell. I've only owned the winch about a year, but I have yet to hear anything bad about them from other people that use them.
Ya, that winch for sure wasn't new. It had seen plenty of life. I likely could have rebuilt the motor with new brushes etc, but just decided that I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to get it right. I have a bad habit of just ripping into things without really knowing what I'm doing.
I certainly didn't rebuild the thing... I just tore it apart, figured out what was going on, got it running and slapped it back together. I didn't replace any parts, measure or perfect anything. And, it quit working again after a few months. I replaced the whole thing with an OpenRoad 4x4 13,000 lb winch that works perfect. Lesson here, just throw that old thing away and get a whole new winch that pulls harder, comes with a synthetic line and 2 remotes for the same price as a Warn replacement motor assembly. I wish I would have done that from the get go.
@EverymanOverland not saying you did it wrong but this guy gives a really good teardown and fix makes it very easy. Fixing to tear my old one down rebuild it lol after I've already bought new one. Give old one to son if it goes like videos show. He has 3 part video
@@jamesphillips7283 nice. I still have that winch floating around in my shop, but I don't think I'll use it. I'm really happy with the openroad4wd.com winch that replaced it. So being a pack rat, I kept the warn, but I think it's officially a boat anchor at this point. 😁
