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Was the old warn winch called a thomas?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:17 pm
by steveoo
I have seen for sale on the internet a warn highmount for sale. but in the picture the control solanoied pack it saids thomas. would this just be a old school warn highmount? It looks fairly old. Would this fine for a rebuild?
thanks
steve
Re: Was the old warn winch called a thomas?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:47 pm
by T_Diesel
Thomas is another brand of winch. It might just be that the solenoids have been replaced with Thomas solenoids somewhere along the line.
Re: Was the old warn winch called a thomas?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:54 pm
by Webbie
BTW the first WARN winches were made by Belleview around the 60's no fixed brake, free spool really the first of em all
Re: Was the old warn winch called a thomas?
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:13 am
by bru21
A mate changed his Thomas to highmount.
He called the guy at Thomas and its done pretty often.
By highmount we are talking motor position and not 8274
Re: Was the old warn winch called a thomas?
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:01 pm
by thehanko
The thomas winchs look quite differnt to the warn ones so you should be able to tell if the winch itself is a warn or not from the picture.
solenoids are often replaced along the line, its nothing to worry about, but i would expect the thomas solenoids will be quite old.
Many people swap their solenoids over to the tigers waterproof ones when they get the chance now.