The Lair

My winch won't work unless I flip the switch on. If the switch is on and I turn the truck off completely the winch is off too. I don't know how this is possible though considering it's wired straight to the battery.

 

I'll be heading up there again maybe over the winter. I want revenge!!!!! Also that snow wheeling @EatSleepTacos was talking about sounds fun! I also really want to go to Rausch.

 

Hmmm, interesting. That’s with the winch controller hard wired into the solenoid? Not using wireless?

 

Either way, when I tested it I was like this is a nice feature.

 

It's a smittybuilt x-something.

 

you made a little pee come out!

 

Sweet looking truck on the outtro video! Love the look Rob. Keep it up buddy

 

I may put a quick disconnect inline somewhere, even tho I don't really think it draws that much power when it isn't under load.

 

Battery still has over 2 years warranty left, gonna have them check it tomorrow for sure tho.

 

Well, I am old so there's that.

 

Cool! You should be good to go if you got it started.

 

Check your starter the solenoid could be stuck n drained the battery. It happened to me a couple of times. Solenoid gets a small short that slowly drains the battery when shut off.

 

Randy this may interest you. Kind of makes a choker for the winch line. @Subway4X4 know you are a gear junkie so figured you'd be interested in this.

https://www.bubbarope.com/the-grabber

 

I’m curious how that’s a smarter way to attach it. I didn’t see much of an explanation, but maybe it’s because my service is shit at the moment.

 

This is much better than the winch line end screwed into the drum side!

 

Watch the video. It’s pretty neat.

I could probably sew one up for Less than a buck.

 

Nothing has been posted yesterday? Wtf...

 

Thread it through the loop near the center of the drum then you wrap it around towards the loop at the edge of the drum and it creates kind of a cinch. I do something very similar for my braided fishing line on my fishing reels it works really well for that and this looks like a scaled up version.

 

Randy is at Expo East in the middle of nowhere NC and there isn't really any cell service.