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

when you say you cleaned it did you completely dissassemble the gears brakes the lot clean them and greese them and reassemble?

I'm not as fit as I used to be. having to pull out on a standard freespool and survive running around for a full day would just be to much.

all well and good but have you tried pulling out the 8274 freespool it's bad enough on flat tarmac let alone climbing a hill at the same time

not that keen on bonnet nets your rope can get knotted if your not carful and if it falls out or you catch the rope on a bank as you pull through thats alot of rope that is suddenly going round moving parts. Best bet is to store the hook on hoops by the doors. always acceable and it's usually around the right amount thats left out after a pull

thank you very much fo letting me play. Thank god we did the punch we did first before anyone else as all the pics i've seen show people winching in and out lol

whats your budget? obviously more than most. working on the sort of budget I my self are on and I suspect most other avarage competitors are on I get a choice if I save hard this year on either a freespool or twin top. And thats assuming you don't break or major roll it. Having just done round 1 lrs with gary on a single xp motor at no point did the motor fail us in what we asked of it and in some circumstances the motor out performed those running twin tops. The thing that slowed us down was having to spool out.

seen as I was supposed to bitching for dean and now dan is i'm free and i'm coming anyway.

the few comps I have seen recentally it is free spool that has won the day. a well set up single motor 8274 will do better with a freespool than a double top housing with no free spool

dans front pulls like a train as well. i say throw your money at a free spool (thus saving time spooling out and not burning out on 24v) and look at 24v like dans that way YOU choose when you you feel you need the extra

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