Quick question on warn winch drama

[cruiserute75]

basically i want to know if warn winch solenoids have thermal overloads as sometimes when winching in and i stop, and want to go in again all i get is a click. i wait a few minutes and it goes again. i have recently replaced the two "spool in" solenoids as one shit itself the other day. is it simply a case of overloads or have i got a biger problem? the winch is fairly old however ive cleaned it up recently. also could it be something in the other 2 solenoids, i didnt think it did as it will spool out no worries. any help would be appreciated.

also should i earth the winch back to the battery or is to the frame good enough?

cheers
mick

[WORE]

THE SOLINOIDS DON'T HAVE CUT OUT IN THEM THEY WILL MELT DOWN GIVEN THE CHANCE. YOU SHOULD RETURN THE EARTH WIRE TO THE BATTERY IN ALL HIGH AMP REQUIRMENTS.

DAMO

[cruiserute75]

thanks mate, i might just not be a tight arse and swap all of em, there about 15 years old. i was mucking around with it today and it wouldn't spool out on occasions too so yeah probly do em all. thanks again.

cheers
mick

[Modified Toy]

What Voltage are you running 12/24v you can get solenoids with silver contacts witch will last longer or contacter packs witch will handle water to.

[cruiserute75]

im running 12 volt. im thinking it could be a bad earth or something, ill have to check it out soon. from my interpretation of the wiring diaram, on two solenoids are uesd for foward and the other 2 for reverse, is this correct? so ive replaced the 2 forward ones and yeah sometime it wont sppol in but it will spool out. then after a while it will go in again so yeah its got me stuffed. ill just check all connections, and earth it to the battery and see how i go, then ill replace the other 2 solenoids. just a bit hesitant due to the price. i should have brought a titan solenoid. they sound like there the go.

cheers
mick