Winch… Warn or ARB

frankenyoter

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My XD9000 housing broke when my “friends” were not paying attention when I had a long pull. It’s one of the oldest models.

To change out the housing and get a new control pack to bring it up to date I’m looking at roughly 1k.

Doesn’t seem like a wise choice. A new one is just over 2k but I intend to swap to a rope and ditch a cable. If I buy the next model Warn with rope I’m over 2.5k.

I need the low profile style so I can remove the control pack to package in the bumper.

It looks like ARB is in the winch game now. Any experiences with them? A 10k ARB with rope is a tad over 1k and appears to be semi self contained and low profile. I think it would work. But I don’t want to spend less to get crap.
 
Shreddinlettuce said:
Harbor freight dude, catch ‘em on sale. Warn is made in china just like everyone else, but with hf you can get a 2 year no questions asked warranty and trade it out in store just about anywhere

Come up winch is the new warn if you’re allergic to cash
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Yep, as much as I want to not support the cheap Chinese crap, buying a Warn is mostly doing the same thing. Might as well spend $500 or less at Harbor Freight.
 
As someone who just overhauled/rebuilt their 17yr old m8000, I would just rebuild what ya got. I found a similar looking winch contactor in the surplus center catalogue for like half of what I paid for a warn one if you are looking at saving money.
 
gslander said:
As someone who just overhauled/rebuilt their 17yr old m8000, I would just rebuild what ya got. I found a similar looking winch contactor in the surplus center catalogue for like half of what I paid for a warn one if you are looking at saving money.
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Yeah, but the housing broke. That's a little differnt
 
I’m not scared to spend the money once. Honestly this might be the cheapest part of my build aside from tabs and stuff. Cry now as opposed to cry later. I get the HF angle and it’s probably gonna TON weight.

Being towards the end of a major expense for me, I just don’t want to compromise on the winch. I’m ok compromising in the rope for some reason.

I’ve been burned by lesser winches before and while it’s very possible new stuff suck more than old stuff in the same flavor… I just don’t want to do this twice. .
 
Yes, you could buy a new HF winch, and probably be fine. I’ve run 3 or 4 different brands of winches and generally not had any significant problems. I currently use only warn. And the last 6 or 7 I’ve had have been warn. At times I’ve run other brands and thought to myself “man, I wish I had a warn”. I’ve never used a warn and thought “man, I wish I had a HF winch.” In my experience, warn is consistently strong and reliable. I would suggest looking for a good used warn on marketplace.
 
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justjeepin86 said:
8274 ftw
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Always wanted one. My front is very compact and low profile. Only way I’ll run one is if I end up having to chop it the exo and redo everything to allow it to flex fully.

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