What to do with bad winch?

Scott86MJ

Scott86MJ

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My friend had a Harbor Freight 9000lb winch that will not run forward or reverse. He plans to buy a higher quality winch to replace it and left this thing in my shop floor. Should I remove the cable and take the rest to the scrap yard or is it good for parts or repair? The winch was only used once and I guess the weather got to it. Thanks Scott
 
If you weren't so far away, I'd give you more than the scrapper would for it. I've fixed a couple, and could use one for a trailer, but don't want to put much in it.

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This is the inside. It was full of water.
 
This should be a sticky and everyone asking which cheap winch to buy should be directed here....
 
Hell The inside of my m8000 looked worse than that before I rebuilt it, and it still ran. Only reason I went into it is because the free spool lever wouldn't engage anymore.
 
Yep learned my lesson with a Smittybilt. It was a permanent magnet motor, one of the magnets came loose inside. They wouldn't warranty it and wanted more for a replacement motor than I had paid for the winch originally....
 
Clean up the connections and it should work. I've got a HF 8000 trailer winch for cheap because it "didn't work". 5 minutes of cleaning terminals and it was good to go. My Warn 8274 got buried a hundred times and never let me down.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Clean up the connections and it should work. I've got a HF 8000 trailer winch for cheap because it "didn't work". 5 minutes of cleaning terminals and it was good to go. My Warn 8274 got buried a hundred times and never let me down.
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I will try and clean it and see what happens. Thanks Matt
 
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