Winch Troubleshooting XRC8

I recently had my Smittybilt XRC8 out of my truck as I was doing some work finishing my plate bumper. It worked before I removed it (I powered out a couple feet of rope.) I had it removed for a couple weeks and put everything back together today. Buttoned everything up and of course, the winch is not working.

I had 10x checked over the wiring, and I put it back together exactly as it came apart. All wires are color matched so its not exactly rocket science.

-The solonoid Clicks AND the Motor Clicks as well when pushing the controller in either Direction.
-The Solonoid has 4 Posts, 1 + from the Battery and 3 outs which all go to the winch.
-Winch has Ground going directly to the battery -.

-When the winch cables are NOT hooked up to the winch, all 3 Outputs read 12v when the controller is pressed.
-When the winch cables ARE hooked up, they read between 5-7v.

-I have checked my ground and sanded/removed any paint from winch's connection.

-Winch motor gets very warm when intermittently pressing controller.

One thing I find weird, is that all 3 outputs of the solonoid read connectivity to Ground when the controller is NOT pressed, but read +12v when button is pressed. The solonoid never moved, it is mounted under my hood.


I'm thinking I have a short in the motor itself, but I am definitely not an expert. Winch is only 2 months old and used 2x.

PLEASE HELP lol

 

How old is your wench? ...I had some major issues with my xrc10 and eventually replaced the solenoid. Works better now then it was new. The new solenoid I got was slightly more updated in the way that there were two little diodes added to the solenoid wiring. Also one off the issues that I had was the little -black wire that's labeled "a" actually shorted out and melted..weird I know. I have had this wench for a few years now .

I also followed some threads from other forums on how to service and rebuild the wench, basicly removing the old ultra thick grease. Once I packed in new normal grease the winch now operates 100 times smoother and now takes no effort at all to pull out the line.


Edit: did not see that you had it only two months