NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Yup I'm down for when ever. Was even thinking of making a run to The lake!

 

Surprise Lake?

 

Anyone in here have a scan or ultra gauge they want to sell?

 

sweet, you gonna wire it up yourself?

also need an SWR meter to tune it, not sure if you have one or know someone close by that does. (I do not)

@busmup808 we'll have to hit ya up when we go, hopefully very near future

 

This is my conundrum. Just pony up now for gigantic bumper or insert

 

Yes

Yes Sir

 

That video yesterday was less than half a mile past the turnout for the lake. Also...

https://youtu.be/59aBaeyA-0I

 

I could help ya wire it, have the meter.

 

Did the stock wiring reach that far, or did you have to get longer wires?

 

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Gots swr meter and cable. Where u at? I'm either auburn or Tacoma mall

 

Buy once, cry once.
@northwesttaco

 

I'm down in Lacey. Maybe @Skootter14 will let us use his garage

 

Pm coming

 

I have one you can use but I'm up in kirkland

 

Smack it with a hammer on the motor side. I guarantee it's the contacts. That's the advice I received from the WARN tech when I went to visit with mine. He also said you need to open it up occasionally and put on this special grease, I don't remember what it was called. Looking around, this looks like good advice. If you regularly open it up and re-grease, the contacts don't get stuck.

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2452921
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/winch-gear-grease.252759/

I did the same. wireless for life.
... and just because the video came out so well, I gotta post it again

https://youtu.be/gxIhIHlc5NE

I kept changing things around, so I have longer wires that could really be trimmed down. Worse comes to worse, you can re-use the stock wiring for fuse blocks and other battery related stuff

 

Best video ever.

 

I smacked it with a hammer for almost 30min. Took the motor side loose and it looked OK. But couldn't get a good look. Will need to unmount the winch and maybe slide it to one side so I can remove the brushes and all that good stuff.

I thought maybe something was bound up in there so I free spooled a bunch, then decided to just unspool it all. I forgot I put a bunch of cinch wraps on the drum and it's cinched pretty good after all the winching I've done since installing rope. Now I have ~90' of rope wrapped around the front bumper.

 

Funny, I remember having that. Does yours click? My contacts would click. If your contacts don't click, then I bet you have a dead solenoid.

 

They click. Just replaced all 4. I don't think they where bad to begin with so I have 4 old xtras now. While I had the motor side apart I accidentally hit the in/out on the winch remote and the motor jumped. Somethings bound up I think or I dunno and the whole mf'r needs to come out for a bench cleaning.

 

Back to BS.. Cannot wait to get this stuff installed tomorrow night.

Then to get my BP-51s going...