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Your right, the UK manufacturer is Gigglepin. The system replaces the top housing with one which accepts two xp motors. From the videos ive seen its exceptional. Ive also seen systems where two 8274 are fixed to the same drum. One winch is mounted in reversed and a wider drum fitted between the two ...

Hi guys. A question from the UK. Ive been watchin numerous events in Australia such as the warn winch challenge series, the 8day XI and the outback challenge with great interest. Some really great footage and very different from the mud in England.

Ive noticed in recent pictures of competition ...

So what do you guys think of the fair lead? Do you have any experience of this type of product over in aus? From what I have seen of events such as the Warn winch Challenge series and Outback Challenge, there is some extremely heavy duty winchin and driving going on. Looks awsome like. I would ...

i am inclined to agree mate. The earth from the motor to the -ve on the battery is brand new and has good terminals which are properly crimped on. Its 35mm2 so I'm confident in that one. Following the test with me mates winch, if the problems lies within the electrics rather than the motor I will be ...

Albyone - yeah fortunately my mate runs a similar 8274 with xp motor, but hes retained the oringinal warn solenoids. Ive already tried his solenoids on my winch with the same results. This used my earth and positive feeds to my battery.

Next step is to use my car to power his winch by parking them ...

The albrights are mounted vertically. (As in the terminals are on the top)

We have now tried the winch using a warn solenoid pack and a 2nd earth from the negative on the battery to the chassis with a good contract. Unfortunately although this improved things very slightly for a few minutes, the ...

Cheers guys. The problems I have and symptoms such as the motor getting hot and lackin power but then having suddern surges, gettin faster and then slower. The winch 'switches', very occassionaly choose not to work yet the solenoid stil clicks but the winch does nothing. All these problems have been ...

Yeah, no probs. They are manufactured by a company in England called Devon 4x4. Ill email you a pic. Their web site is www.devon4x4.com

Carnage - I emailed the two pics across this evening. I think they'd be of interest to anyone with a winch using plasma or other synthetic ropes.

Cheers

Paul

ive found the pictures guys, but how do i post them?

Its now recommended here in the UK to use a stainless steel fairlead with plasma rope as the mud and dirt which gets stuck in the rope gradually eats away at the softer aluminium. There are pictures some where of an aluminium fairlead thats been eaten away at the edges following just 3 challenges I ...

Thanks for this help guys. I have to admit from conversations today it appears there is some errors in my wiring. If there is a comprehensive wiring diagram available thats striaght forward to follow I would be very gratful. Cheers guys

Paul

beretta, I have followed a wiring diagram yes, although if you have further diagrams i would be grateful to cross check against them incase. I switched the negative cables from F1 and F2 at the solenoid end today. the result was that the slower spooling was going in rather than out previously. would ...

Cheers Guys :)

The solenoids are brand new allbrights, and although it is possible, I would like to think that they work properly. I will not rule this out just yet tho.

I have earthed my winch to the battery yes, using 35mm cable. You mentioned the earthing of the solenoids...Mine currently ...

Hi Guys

I am running a warn 8274 an Xp motor. Its powered from a single optima yellow top using albright solenoids, and a 3 pole internal toggle switch. Unfortunately when first wired up the motor was gettin very hot, so I improved connections on each terminal and increased all cables to 35mm2. The ...