Outer Limits 4x4 Board

I am setting up a truggy soon with an airshock setup.
Im thinking of a highmount winch on the front and rerouting the cable so it can go either down to the diff or out the front for recovery purposes.
For the rear Im thinking maybe rather than getting a piddly little winch for suspension only maybe get a low mount 8000 pound and be able to use it for rear recoveries also.
Will I need to put pulleys on the diffs or will single line be OK?
Also does the shock loads from the suspension cycling cause any damage to the winches? Im thinking not with a big winch?
Cheers
Paul.

Paul when I read about this quite a while ago the guys of here were useing cheap winches from super crap.They aparently were lasting the longest and at just over $100 are very cheap.I have run mine straight to the front diff with no pulley seems to work just fine never had a problem.

Duncan

I had 1 of thoses $100 1000lb? winches with a pulley mounted to my rear diff, would only pull the airshocks down 1-1.5" when sitting on level ground. Had a 8000lb on the front, that was much better and quicker and didnt need to set up a pulley and spring to keep tension, just a straight run to the front diff.

I wouldnt bother mounting a cheap winch again.

we run a warn atv winch due to the internal brake and then run anchor rope (~30% stretch to reduce shock loads and wheel unloading) and run a double pulley up top and a single on the diff (2:1)

i ran a super works winch from supa cheap on the back with 9mm climbing rope instead of the 6mm cable that came with it, never had a problem. $100 as opposed to the warns ($400 i think)

i used a pulley on the housing.

front i ran a warn low mount.

I dont know much about the buggies, but I am quite interested in them, so no flaming me on this one.

I see the winches hooked up to the diffs of the buggies and the drivers 'lowering' the buggys using them on slopes, is this done to reduce the COG, or to assist traction, or both. And what other purposes does it do besides recovery.

Chucky wrote:I dont know much about the buggies, but I am quite interested in them, so no flaming me on this one.

I see the winches hooked up to the diffs of the buggies and the drivers 'lowering' the buggys using them on slopes, is this done to reduce the COG, or to assist traction, or both. And what other purposes does it do besides recovery.

yep, lower COG, helps the airshocks from unloading when dropping off steep stuff too.

cheers

Would love to get into this side of the sport when dollars permit.