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I'm sure it's been asked a gazillion times before.

Can I use synthetic rope on my Warn 9000 pound low mount?? Are there any preferred brands of rope?

Dave.

yep mate have plasma on mine. no idea of brand though sorry.

Yep! Just make sure your drum is clean and free of burrs, and fit up a hawse fairlead for the new rope.

A lot of the newer winches these days come with rope, or a rope option (eg. Tigerz11).

Good work, cheers fellas.

Just be careful if you do winch out under load the drum can heat up due to the brake-in-drum design of the warn winch. I've had synthetic rope on my warn low mount for years with no ill effects. I have never seen it personally in the flash but have heard some stories about synthetic rope melting when a long winch out under load is happening. I guess if you do need to do it, winch out in small hits with a break in between.

I personally don't have plasma rope on my winch don't like the though of it being cut up easily but from what I have heard on a low mount you need a different rope I don't know the full details it either has a sleeve over the first section of the rope or a different compound to deal with the heat of the drum brake ( so the first wrap of rope on the drum insulates the rest of the rope ) hope it helps to get the answers your after

metak wrote:I personally don't have plasma rope on my winch don't like the though of it being cut up easily but from what I have heard on a low mount you need a different rope I don't know the full details it either has a sleeve over the first section of the rope or a different compound to deal with the heat of the drum brake ( so the first wrap of rope on the drum insulates the rest of the rope ) hope it helps to get the answers your after

I'm not sure about other brands, but of the couple of lengths i've bought from Tigerz11, the rope has had a sleeve on the drum end (for heat protection), and also a sleeve on the eye end (for abrasion protection). I am yet to see a plasma rope to snap from abrasion in person though (i'm sure someone has done it though). If you check your rope when you're washing it after a dirty weekend, as you should, then you'd see any frayed strands while doing so.

been running it for years on mine..

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