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!
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! 😂
How to you get the brushes out so you can fit the stator back in. I have a badlands 12000. It's built the same way though, mine seized up, I think it was the motor so I started taking it apart. Stator looked a bit dusty but still new. I'll end up posting a video I guess. But the brushes don't stay open. Do i have to pull them back and fit the stator back into them so they grab on to it??
@@1Turnatatime yes, the brushes are spring loaded to stay in contact with the stator. If you find a socket or something the right size you can hold them all out with that and get them back over the stator. Otherwise you gotta just fumble about and push out like 3 of them with your fingers, get the stator a bit in there to hold them, then push out the last one, then jillge, wiggle, push this, twist that... It's not impossible by any stretch, but it's frustrating.
@EverymanOverland yeah I ended up getting back on the stator. Found another video where the guy just pulled the motor cover off and I used his fingers to keep the brushes open as he slid the stator back in. Caught my finger of course but I got it. Thanks for the other idea too. Maybe I'll try it next time around if I have to service it again.
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.
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... 😁
@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. 😁
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 !
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.
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.
@@حمد11-ظ8ط 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.
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!
Great explanation of what ARB doesn’t tell installers to check when installing in an unusual position
@@AngusAbbott-qf8xm ya, I'm thinking there's a ton of dead winches out there because of this.
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! 😂
I'll cheat every chance I get! 😁
Mine died the same way because I didn’t realize I needed to change the drain holes.
@@BVN-TEXAS I'm fairly sure there's a lot of dead winches in arb bumpers because of this.
How to you get the brushes out so you can fit the stator back in. I have a badlands 12000. It's built the same way though, mine seized up, I think it was the motor so I started taking it apart. Stator looked a bit dusty but still new. I'll end up posting a video I guess. But the brushes don't stay open. Do i have to pull them back and fit the stator back into them so they grab on to it??
@@1Turnatatime yes, the brushes are spring loaded to stay in contact with the stator. If you find a socket or something the right size you can hold them all out with that and get them back over the stator. Otherwise you gotta just fumble about and push out like 3 of them with your fingers, get the stator a bit in there to hold them, then push out the last one, then jillge, wiggle, push this, twist that... It's not impossible by any stretch, but it's frustrating.
@EverymanOverland yeah I ended up getting back on the stator. Found another video where the guy just pulled the motor cover off and I used his fingers to keep the brushes open as he slid the stator back in. Caught my finger of course but I got it. Thanks for the other idea too. Maybe I'll try it next time around if I have to service it again.
It's not so much the corrosion on the armature but your brushes were toast.
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.
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... 😁
Should've taken apart gearbox too you know its just as gunky
LR Live has great video for doing this right.
Ya, I got it apart and got it running, but I don't think what I did could be called "doing it right" 🤣
@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. 😁
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 !
I have moved on to an openroad4wd.com 13,000 lb winch, and I'm very happy with it
Boy you sure helped people with the rebuild and troubleshooting, ohms measurements, pffffft
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.
Cool vid bro. Nicely done.
Thank you. Now we'll see how long it lives...
Hello, do you recommend buying this winch? How much can it bear?
Also, how long has it been used?
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.
@@EverymanOverland But is the industry in China the same quality, durability and endurance?
@@حمد11-ظ8ط 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.
Did you buy this winch @ Clemson?
No, it was already installed on the truck when I bought it out of Houston in Feb 2021.