NJ B.S. Thread

not sure, I didn't read anything about likes equaling votes or maybe I missed it

 

I posted one of those for the New England Calendar... along with this one:

IMG_3846 by Michael Halat, on Flickr

Yeah just likes ha, it’s a weird system.

 

Gotcha, well I "voted" then. What I don't get is this:

"When voting starts, you may vote as many times as you want."

So how do I like a picture more than once? That thread rules are giving me cancer

 

Ditto. It’s not clear.

 

It’s a millennial thing, that’s just how social media works. Just like little punks bringing your name up on stuff you’re not involved with and crying in texts to their buddies instead of saying something to your face. Nobody in this thread knows anything about that though

 

Steve sounds bitter..

 

I see you @HuneyBear69

 

Finished up a coat rack idea last night. 3/4 black pipe, some winch hooks laying around the garage, and used a piece of lumber I saved from my wife’s grandfathers garage in Maryland.

 

Photo dumped more garage stuff in my build

 

That's pretty badass

 

Thanx dude!

 

Pretty cool! Looks great!

 

Why Buy an Engo winch..





From the very beginning prior to having my own winch I heard good things about Engo, the main thing being great customer service. Seemed easy to say that would be the winch company I’m going with. As I did 11/30/16 with a hook up at Southeast Overland. Fast forward 3 years later and I’m even happier then ever with my purchase from Engo.

My 10kS winch was put to work a lot over the years.. moving trees off forestry roads in Virginia, getting unstuck from the deep snow of the White Mountains NF New Hampshire, saving a family in a F250 with box trailer on a forestry road in Wyoming, locally helping a contractor get his skid steer out from being bogged, and testing recovery gear like the recovery ring for safer application for winching.

The last photo in sequence is where my winch died, trail 20 Rausch Creek offroad Park in Pennsylvania. I blame myself for death to the winch.. It was a very stressful situation to say the least. After a few hours of trail damage and self winch recovery I came back around on the trail to winch my buddy. I went from being in front of him to now behind him. Lack of rear recovery points we looked to snatch him from the front with the recovery ring. My winch line was up against his door wrapping around the fender and head light, he said he didn’t care but that didn’t sit well with me, so I moved the tree saver higher and higher till it cleared over the hood. Ready to winch everything was in motion... then disappointment set in.. My winch stopped pulling and my buddy was still stuck. I didn’t realize till we talked about it hours later I setup the line in a way that had too much stress on the winch. The setup with the tree saver too high wanted to pull the front end of the truck off the ground instead of just a forward motion.

Now home days later it was time to diagnose and fix the winch. My first thought was that the solenoid was fried given a little research. Ordered a new solenoid and replaced it, still didn’t work.



What I should have done from the beginning was call Engo. I’m not sure how Engo operates behind the scenes but every time I called them a guy named Joel answered the phone and called the shots to rectify the situation. So on the first call to them I explained what happened and we discussed a solution, ended up ordering a new winch motor. Relatively cheap I’ll add but a little steep on shipping given the weight. When it arrived I temporarily wired everything together and it worked! Thanx Joel for the advice, customer service and being easy to talk to.

Before installing the functioning winch back in the bumper I took apart the gear box to clean it up and regrease everything. To my surprise right off the bat some muddy water came out. Upon further dissection I found out one of the gear sets in the assembly had two seized smaller gears. I cleaned everything up best I could and even soaked the gear set in PB blaster for a couple days. I was able to get the small gears to move but barely and with force. So I got back on the phone and called Engo. Joel picks up, I said hey and explained we prior talked about my winch and ordered a new motor, now I have an issue with the gear box.. After a brief talk he said “are you the original purchaser?”, “when did you order it”, “we’ll send you a new one”. I had to repeat him out disbelief.. “your gonna send me a new one!?”. So no hiccups I explained exactly how I purchased it from Steve at Southeast Overland, through FB messenger, with PayPal. Joel asked if I picked it up or it was shipped to me. SEO is in South Carolina, I told Joel it was shipped to me. Joel responded “then we sent it to you, I’ll find the invoice for proof of purchase and just send some pics via email of the gear box and corrosion”.




5 days later Joel is a man of his word.






After everything is reassemble I’m excited to get back out on the trail and push the limits. I can’t thank Joel at Engo enough for all the help he had given me calling from New Jersey all the way to Washington, personally picking up the phone after two or three rings (never missed a call) and supplying expert advice. The level of customer service I received is unfathomable for business nowadays. I’ll always remember how good they were to me as a customer and will continue to spread the good word about Engo.

 

That looks slick!

 

Turned the Engo experience write up into a thread.
Already getting more feedback of Engo’s customer service

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/why-buy-an-engo-winch.639345/#post-22060874

 

Where did you buy it from? I asked about engo at pepbois and they looked at me like I had two heads

 

Check the company website direct engousa.com

I checked PepBoiz online and came up with zero results for winches

 

Hey @p_chinnici how’d you make out resort camping opening day of riding?
Which mountain was it again? Was telling @JLink bout it..

Also know @cynicalrider just mentioned a trip with camping and riding.

 

Def want a place we can get a fire going though ha.