alex mac

Thanks for that info James, ill let you know how I get on. I haven't taken the winch off yet, I don't get a chance in the day. I find it odd how it happily winches in with no problem but not out. The earth bolt is not to long. Cheers Alex

Thankyou for the reply guys. Before I got the cable loose last night I popped round to see a mate that's an engineer and knows his stuff about land rovers. He did the method with the battery and jump leads straight to the motor, all it did was sparked and he couldn't work out why. He wondered if it was shorting out somewhere. I should receive my new solenoid tomorrow so ill get that fitted and wired correctly and go from there. If all else fails I will give David a call. Cheers Alex

Hi all I joined last year and have been dropping in now and again but never posted. My name is Alex I'm 22 and live in Dorset, I can safely say I am a car addict. I own a mk2 golf that I am building for a track car and a mk4 golf r32, and then if course my work horse good old defender 90 van 1997 300tdi that I love Any way I have just bought a husky superwinch off a mate that's around 9 or 10 years old. It had a brand new motor, gears and solenoids about a year ago. They then bought a new winch and bumper, so the one I have now stayed on the original bumper with the hook on the bumper. For some reason they winched the hook up tight and then left it sat around for a year. So when I fitted it the other day and tried it, it didn't work. So I cleaned the earths up and the connections and got it to winch in but not out, then realized one solenoid is not working. I switched the cables around so I could winch out on the working solenoid and all it did was made a high pitched noise. Because the cable was so tight I also couldn't switch the clutch/dog lever to free wheel, I have managed to get slack in the cable today by taking a roller out on the fairlead. Once I had a little slack I could switch the clutch lever to free wheel and pull the cable out, I then tried the winch again and it made a noise like something was moving inside the motor but nothing happened then a terminal point on the motor started to smoke. Now I am stuck and I am hoping someone could shine some light on this for me please. I have ordered a new solenoid, I have three cables going to the motor from the solenoids and a power cable going from the solenoids to the plus on the battery. Then I have a earth cable connected to the bottom of the bumper going to the negative on the battery, is that right? Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is the earth cable connected to the battery. Sorry for the huge write up. Cheers Alex