Canadian Tire winch?

[BIG DAWG]

kinda ashamed to say as I consider myself to be very pro active with maintenance but I have NEVER opened up a winch to service...
what am I looking for? just clean and regrease?

 

[pfi572]

kinda ashamed to say as I consider myself to be very pro active with maintenance but I have NEVER opened up a winch to service...
what am I looking for? just clean and regrease?

Haha , yeh it's one of those things as long as it's working it's good .
Mine started to not free wheel so decided to check into it. Glad I did as it was dirty as h*ll and probably would have given me trouble .
Yes I just clean and re-grease the gear side of things and re-Lube the drum seals.
Works like it should again.

 

[youngpolarisguy]

I try to do mine every year or two. The grease just turns to mud after a while. Plus I like to seal up the joints in the motor housing.

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[doorfx]

Actually the last rt25 warn i had fail every dam gear inside that winch was plastic. But I heard they are now metal but i haven't bought another one
I've never seen an rt25 with plastic gears ,and only the can am branded warns ,with plastic housings. The can am branded warns also don't have a seal kit like a regular rt25.

 

[ippielb]

I take the winch off, clean thoroughly, re wrap the wire. And grease with amsoil water resistant grease, the blue stuff. Get it at peavey mart. I don't open the winches up until they make a lot of racket, or stop working/free wheel.

the winch that came on the front of our 05' Arctic cat quad is a warn, it had a plastic outer planetary gear housing.

 

[youngpolarisguy]

It was a few years back came factory in a brute force. Maybe kawi had warn make them even cheaper.

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[doorfx]

 

[doorfx]

Before

After

They clean up real good and work great again.
8 /10 times its not the winch but the operator. Duty cycle is the big one. A 2500 LB winch pulling 2500 lbs for 10 seconds requires a 10-12 minute cool down. It's in your winches owners manual.

Layers on the drum is another big one. Winches are ALL rated with one layer on the drum. Every layer you add significantly reduces your winches pulling power.

 

[rzrgade]

They are all made in China essentially.... And the little Asian guy will put on what ever sticker they tell him to ....
Point is China makes some good stuff , poor stuff and medium stuff.
The well known winch makers at least have a reputation and / or feedback
, apposed to some no name pos .
Be it a superwinch / runva / badlands or whatever , at least you can have some actual owners chime in ...
There will always be a cheap winch ( like every other thing ) that exceeds your expectations , conversely there will always be an expensive item that disappoints . Such is life ...

On average , always buy in the middle , you can only be half wrong .
Worst case scenario....lol

 

[WarrenG]

Learning more than I expected from this post . Thanks for all the input everyone. I didn't even know my winch came with s manual haha but when you read through the info it all makes sense. The duty cycle is the most valuable info as I didn't know about the long cool down periods recommended.

 

[doorfx]

I take the winch off, clean thoroughly, re wrap the wire. And grease with amsoil water resistant grease, the blue stuff. Get it at peavey mart. I don't open the winches up until they make a lot of racket, or stop working/free wheel.

the winch that came on the front of our 05' Arctic cat quad is a warn, it had a plastic outer planetary gear housing.

Yes all the previous generation warns A,CI and CL had composite housings.

 

[whoDEANie]

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What all do you have there? Is it a kit?

 

[doorfx]

No it's just parts needed for rebuilding.

 

[neilsleder]

Before
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After
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They clean up real good and work great again.
8 /10 times its not the winch but the operator. Duty cycle is the big one. A 2500 LB winch pulling 2500 lbs for 10 seconds requires a 10-12 minute cool down. It's in your winches owners manual.
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Layers on the drum is another big one. Winches are ALL rated with one layer on the drum. Every layer you add significantly reduces your winches pulling power.
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10-12 minute cool down? Don't you mean beer break?


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[doorfx]

Some call it that !! Lol

 

[rzrgade]

Does the cash you save on a crappy tire winch ,go into a TEA fund ....????

 

[lilduke]

Yep duty cycle is huge, get a winch that is larger than you'll ever need and you'll be Golden.
Get the winch below and you could pull your side x side through skeg all day if you want.

If I ever get a new SxS that is what Id run. The people I use to go with would stop every mile for a "beer break"
Lucky if you made it 10km all day.... Not really my thing.

 

[rzrgade]

That beast is most worthy of two finger trail, I must say .....


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[X-it]

I will have to admit i bought a canadiantire winch, it was on sale dam cheap and if you spent 200 you got a 50 dollar gift card. I resold it. People like getting deals on kiiiji, i love them asking what is wrong with it and why are you selling it so cheap. Not hard to see it has never been opened if you ask me. I do not know anything about them, but they look nice.

 

[MADKAWI]

I have a Crappy Tire 4000lb on my quad and it works great. No real long term test yet though. A buddy had one on his rzr a 4000lb as well and he said it worked great.

as for the guys saying winch broke and they are stranded, you should be packing a come-along justvin case. The Warn winches break too... But there are good and bad cheap chinese winches. Are the Vipers still around? I thought they were supposed to be a really good cheap winch??