Winch Maintenance

What do you X owners with Winches do for maintenance?? I try to keep mine clean and reasonably straight but am new to the Warn setup installed inside my ARB.

The most significant maintenance effort is the care and feeding of the winch cable. I usually will unspool and respool the cable after using it for several reasons:

1. To inspect the material condition of the cable - do I have cut, bends, frays.... things that would require it to be replaced
2. To apply a thin coat of grease/oil to it
3. To rewind it on the drum in an even distributed fashion

Originally posted by fee_nx
The most significant maintenance effort is the care and feeding of the winch cable. I usually will unspool and respool the cable after using it for several reasons:

1. To inspect the material condition of the cable - do I have cut, bends, frays.... things that would require it to be replaced
2. To apply a thin coat of grease/oil to it
3. To rewind it on the drum in an even distributed fashion

The Warn site says you don't need to oil their cables.

Thanks for the info - thats about what I was thinking.

Cheers:ylsuper

Originally posted by Schludwiller


The Warn site says you don't need to oil their cables.

... don't they also say don't let idiots wrap the cable...???:D

No idiots?? Uh,oh.....who am I gunna get to wrap it now??? Jens....no........scott......nope..........Xlax... .....certainly not........mudphud........I wont even go there........sigh. I guess I'll just have to take it off and give it to someone cool....

Put your X at the bottom of your driveway and the cable around the power pole across the street and winch it up the driveway! Of course you'll have to have your girlfriend stop traffic while your doing it! :D

An interesting strategy - you almost need a winch to get out of my driveway....... Many friends have figured out they need to fix their parking brake while parking at my place.

I also get a lot of "riced" out crappy little hondas and such blowing their fart-pipes up and down the street and it would be a helluva inconvenience if I had to clean the remnants of one of those off the driveway and street after it gets clotheslined on the winch-cable - poor things are only held together by glue and bolt-on fiberglass spoilers and tin mud-flaps. I think putting a "Type R" or "RS" sticker under the "Civic" logo makes them tougher though. The poor buggers are so busy being lobotomized by "Pee Diddly or Snoopy Dogie Dogg" on their stereos theyd never see it in time.:p