WARN 8274 strip down and rebuild after trip.

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After two really hard trips which had the winch under mud and winching hard and then rescuing two vehicles on a "easy" recent trip time to see how the modified WARN 8274 fared. Also mr Metcalfe had noticed we put the spacer in the wrong place as we could not read the gigglepin instructions or follow the pics it was just too hard to see the one page guide.

It has a Albright controller not the WARN unreliable solenoids. It has a gigglepin Shaft and a gigglepin freespool and a WARN 6HP motor fitted.

The grill was out in 1 minute thanks to it all being attached by cable ties.

Then I let our guest and master WARN guru for the day Mr Metcalfe assist us.

He removed the winch top yes we used a 1/4 inch allen key

Then it was time for the shaft to come out being gigglepin there is a few more screws to remove.

First the brake has to come off so I put the spanner in the right place to undo the 8mm allen bolt on the end no circlip on the gigglepin version.

Then we laid out the brake - yes the shoe is split and its full of mud from the recent trip. We also noticed we need a washer on the end of the bolt to make the brake work faster there is too much play. So I made up a washer till we can obtain some shims.

Then time for a look inside cool no water and no mud the silicon sealing worked.

Then time to extract the shaft with assistance of a drift and a small hammer.

The extracted gigglepin shaft and all looks fine.

Then shown how to put the spacer in correctly

and the circlip

Then time to put the shaft back in the body.

Then the bush

and the seal after that.

Then we made up a clamp (2) to hold the brake together while its fitted and bolted on

Reassemble the brake lining up all the pieces

Clamped and ready to fit.

 

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Lunch and a liberal helping of coke and southern comfort then time for work again.

Then it was time for me to do the motor wow also it was clean and just a little rub down with sandpaper. MEans the silicon also worked here.



Then we fixed one sticky carbon.





I put a little grease on the end of the motor splines to stop any rust then we refitted it.





And all works OK

I just need to order a new brake kit and make two more clamps the mechanic took the two we made.


My winch repair kit consists of
spare Albright
sandpaper
1/4 Allen key
small drift
small hammer
11mm ring spanner
cable ties
grease
Spare motor
Spare 600amp cables all made up
Spare wire 50meters

thats it.