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a different winch question

Post by GQ Bear »

A couple of weeks ago i cooked my Brawn 9500lb lomount winch motor. The armature is shagged.

Now some of you may think this is my opportunity to better my life and become a highmount owner. Unfortunately though the cash cow has an udder infection and won't be churning out too much cash in the near future.

Where can i source a lomount winch motor? I don't know where to get one of these animals from and i don't particularly want to have to buy a whole new winch.

If i was forced to go down this expenditure path, i was toying with the idea of getting a warn 6hp winch motor and slapping it onto my Brawn winch. The problem i face here is that my current motor's output shaft is rectangular whereas the warn's are splined/star type. Where would i be able to get the bush that attaches the warn motor to the drum and shaft?

This way when i finally do get the bucks to buy a warn himount i already have a 6hp motor to bung on it.

Thanks
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Post by chpd 80 »

Gidday Glen, Sorry to hear your winch still not going :cry:

Don't really know were to get that bush your talking about? I thought
the shaft would have been the same for warn motors. (ya learn something
new everyday) :D
You'll probably pay around $500 for a 6hp motor plus the adapter shaft.

I bought my Highmount second hand off ebay for $800 bucks and rebuilt
it with new bushes seals etc quite cheap and learned a lot about how they
work. Maybe an option if you can hold off and find one similar.

Good luck getting it all sorted mate.
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Post by Ruffy »

Hey Turtle boy..
Give Chris a bell at KJ's. 5222 8665. He deals with brawn stuff should be able to get a motor i guess..
If not, any half decent engineer should be able to make up an adapter. Andrew and Brian at Geelong Diffs would knock one up for you.
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Post by me3@neuralfibre.com »

I see one of the ebay sellers sellgin motors as spares for his units. Might fit? Or be cheap enough to modify. It's the guy with all the 12000lb winches - on his personal website from memory.

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Post by Bluey »

i'm probably behind the times by a year or two, but is brawn not in existance anymore?
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Post by GQ Bear »

Bluey wrote:i'm probably behind the times by a year or two, but is brawn not in existance anymore?
Doesn't matter anyway as most lomount parts are interchangable anyway.

I'm pretty sure Brawns are a Tmax winch with silicon, seals, o-rings and waterproof grease added prior to sale. They're pretty well sealed. After a few years of river crossings, bogholes, mucheavy use, use under water, and never being pulled apart it didn't have a drop of water in it. Grease is perfect too.
Ruffy wrote:Hey Turtle boy..
Give Chris a bell at KJ's. 5222 8665. He deals with brawn stuff should be able to get a motor i guess..

Cheers. Dan
Yeah thanks Ruffy. Got a price off Chris. If i don't find a cheap himount in the next month i'll get one off him.
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Post by Bluey »

GQ Bear wrote:
Bluey wrote:i'm probably behind the times by a year or two, but is brawn not in existance anymore?
Doesn't matter anyway as most lomount parts are interchangable anyway.

I'm pretty sure Brawns are a Tmax winch with silicon, seals, o-rings and waterproof grease added prior to sale. They're pretty well sealed. After a few years of river crossings, bogholes, mucheavy use, use under water, and never being pulled apart it didn't have a drop of water in it. Grease is perfect too.
that's a better way of saying what i was trying to say. was finding it hard to picture having to machine an adapter for a winch only few years old being the only option.
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Post by me3@neuralfibre.com »

Here is the guy's URL - might fit?

http://www.thiswotidonow.com/
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Post by GQ Bear »

me3@neuralfibre.com wrote:Here is the guy's URL - might fit?

http://www.thiswotidonow.com/
Awesome. Thanks for that. $165 delivered for 6.6hp motor. Cool.
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Post by tna racing »

GQ Bear wrote:
Bluey wrote:i'm probably behind the times by a year or two, but is brawn not in existance anymore?
Doesn't matter anyway as most lomount parts are interchangable anyway.

I'm pretty sure Brawns are a Tmax winch with silicon, seals, o-rings and waterproof grease added prior to sale. They're pretty well sealed. After a few years of river crossings, bogholes, mucheavy use, use under water, and never being pulled apart it didn't have a drop of water in it. Grease is perfect too.
Ruffy wrote:Hey Turtle boy..
Give Chris a bell at KJ's. 5222 8665. He deals with brawn stuff should be able to get a motor i guess..

Cheers. Dan
Yeah thanks Ruffy. Got a price off Chris. If i don't find a cheap himount in the next month i'll get one off him.
brawns gone now. my boss has the same problem. after 2 winche's. call up ur local warn dealer due to they are renamed warn winche's cheers adam
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Post by GQ Bear »

adam penfold wrote:
brawns gone now. my boss has the same problem. after 2 winche's. call up ur local warn dealer due to they are renamed warn winche's cheers adam
Nobody i've spoken to can come close to $165 delivered. It's just to keep me out of trouble untill i can afford and find a himount
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Post by tna racing »

sweet. i might put the boss onto that bloke 2
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Post by LOCKEE »

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brawns gone now. my boss has the same problem. after 2 winche's. call up ur local warn dealer due to they are renamed warn winche's cheers adam[/quote]

You are on drugs, they are a copy of a warn not rebadged.

Good luck Bear, did you get hold of Smithy to see if you could make a motor out of parts.
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Post by tna racing »

thats wat i meant lockee.i think bear got me. all thats different is solinoids. brawn said n a different sticker
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Post by GQ Bear »

LOCKEE wrote:
brawns gone now. my boss has the same problem. after 2 winche's. call up ur local warn dealer due to they are renamed warn winche's cheers adam[/quote]

You are on drugs, they are a copy of a warn not rebadged.

Good luck Bear, did you get hold of Smithy to see if you could make a motor out of parts.[/quote]

Yeah, Smithy's always a big help. Maybe when i get my himount one day i'll look into putting the 4.6hp warn motor on the lowmount as a rear winch with a Wazza twin 6 or 7.8hp on the front himount :D
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