Gearbox setting at winching

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Hi all

I was looking trough the forum, but could not find an answer. If you use your winch to pull someone else out and the Vehicle has an automatic gearbox, you guys leave it in P or in N?

Obviously on a manual gearbox you would leave it in neutral. I’m wonder if any strain is on the automatic gearbox if it kept in P.

What you thought?

Thanks

 

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If you use your winch to pull someone else out and the Vehicle has an automatic gearbox, you guys leave it in P or in N?

Neutral, and stand on the brakes (and use the parking brake). The parking pawl in an automatic transmission is not intended to hold the weight of two vehicles and it can shear.

 

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Hi 1911!

Thanks for you answer, under normal circumstances I would do so anyway. The question has risen this morning as I was taken some tree roots out my garden but I had nobody around to be in the car and I ended up to use the handbrake and the shifter on P wile I operated the winch remotely.

The Cruiser is still fine; I don’t think there was too much strain on the parking pawl.