Extra points for using the high quality copper anti-seize. No bolt should go into aluminum dry. Red Loctite is also a corrosion barrier. All-metal locknuts are your friends. So is Grade 8 hardware. The electric versions of these commercial Ramsey winches share parts with the hydraulic variety and are often found used with fried electric motors which are very easy to replace. People fry winch motors by applying insufficient voltage due to poor connections and bad grounds. So far I've scored two 8,000 and one 12,000lb Ramsey by knowing this.
As soon as I put mine into free spool the drum starts unraveling and birdnests the whole cable. Any adjustment I can make for the drag to fix that? Or are some internal components junk? Guy I got the truck from claims he had the winch rebuilt.
I think I made a dumb decision and bought a wrecker bed for $1K. Full hydraulic Challenger. Had peat moss all over it on whole truck. No motor. I learned the hard way it had sit for 17yrs though. My Mech is telling me the dual winches are frozen up, now. I've been in the bizz for awhile, I've never seen that happen, even when sitting for long periods of time off the truck. They just hook em up and they work. But for some reason I'm told mine aren't working. Well 65 miles away is kinda hard for me to run back n fourth while working the biz to see if he's being honest about things. Should I believe they are frozen up or? The hoses still looked pretty good in spots dirt blocks the view of the most of them as mud has been dried on some. But the control valve there is heavy build up of gunk where it leaked some. It needs some repair on that. But otherwise it was looking pretty good for sitting that long. Tires were gone, dry rotted out. So I'm just using bed. Cables rusty. I'll replace though. All controls there. I might have screwed myself because now I need to repair the control valve. Got some springs & caps missing. It's a project now I guess. set me back on time
i change these all day long no need to pull the whole thing off like that, you can get the cover off with the whole assembly still bolted to truck takes 10 minutes
Offer to BUY them instead and you might get some, but shipping won't be cheap. I buy mine used. Forget manual screw removal and have your local machine shop mill them out of the casting unless you have a good drill press in which case use a center cut end mill. Centering a drill bit on a broken screw sucks.
