MrHT

count me in for any help needed. as for point,s deducted for hydro steer i fully agree. would like to think i would be competing but i can't see it some how

not heard a pep

Soiciable!!!! I don't think there is a job that has 1 soiciable hours and. 2good pay. Been looking long enough just so I can find the time to build my truck. Am aiming to get it built over christmas lol(very unlikely to actually succeed)

Great but some of don't get the opertunity very often and when you spend that much time prepping for the event it's a little annoying when it's not run and even more annouying when it's not resheduled

Great but some of don't get the opertunity very often and when you spend that much time prepping for the event it's a little annoying when it's not run and even more annouying when it's not resheduled

come on then matt when is the event going to be run?

Good to hear. Amazing what bargins can be had lol

your on the net bet you'll find 70mm stuff cheap enough on here

I use high end wlders cable at 70mm2 fine mulitiepul strands very flexible (but I did get it free). as big as you can buy and the less problem you'll have from them. make sure your battery links are made of the same stuff if your running 2 batterys. make sure your curcit brakers are big enough for the job as well

i fully agree with dan. I've run a 55 amp till now and never had a problem, yet seen people with 120 amps running out of battery power. get your connections clean and use big cabling to feed the motors and they will keep pulling allday.

If that's the case you'll probably find it's your earth wire as your sending it back through the chassis. Remember what ever you put into the winch you have to take away. And putting your 12 v back throuugh a piece of wire half the size will be like driving a square peg through a round hole, it will go but it will take some doing and it will leave something behind

someone will probably correct me but I think the splined motors are the 4 hp ones.

very tempted to say earth fault. Get it running back to your battery. wiring can be change for bigger stuff later as standard wiring will let the winch work as it should, it just becomes a problem when you start abusing the winch like we do then you need big fine stranded cables to keep the current flowing better.

whole lot sounds odd. my frieends did the same and it burnt his motor out. what size cables are you running? who'S solinoid are you running? are you running a dedicated earth return? are all your contacts clean? When you spool in on a free rope do you get over run or does it stop when you let go of the switch?

when you say you cleaned it did you completely dissassemble the gears brakes the lot clean them and greese them and reassemble? if the 8274 has been stood for a while then I've had it where the brake and the cam for the brake seize up and this will drag the motor right down. You will need to strip the brake and the take out the whole shaft for the brake and clean and greese the whole cam system inside the gear box. my 2.5 hp motor only ever struggled once and by all accounts of the hole most standard motors struggled. we had to +come out of a wet bog at 45 degrees up a short steep sloppy climb