winch help

[RoverRideAlong]

A friend of mine took my truck out yesterday to a pay to play park and got stuck in a decent mud hole. Well he decided to try to winch out with a single line to a tree. He told me that he started winching himself out and made it about 15 feet until the winch just quit. All it does now is click whenever the button is pushed. He said he let the winch cool down down a few times while using it. It is a 9000 pound warn winch. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas of what could be wrong with it?

 

[Steve Rupp]

Well if it's clicking and nothing else then i would assume the solonoids are working. Sounds like the motor could be shot. What winch is it? I had an xd9000i that went through 2 motors. they don't like to get sunk and not cleaned.

I'd start though with checking all the connections. the ground on the bottom of the motor could be rusted so bad that it will allow the solonoids to work and not run the motor.

 

[cdansan]

Make sure there is still a solenoid ground wire. The red wire out of the solenoid box (I have an XD9000) is the ground on mine. The terminal ends of all my connections are rusty and seized. I had to drill out and retap the ground cable on the bottom of my motor.

Mine would power in but not power out. It was shorted out inside the remote handle.

Just because it clicks does not mean all the solenoids are working, there are 4 of them and the do not all work at the same time.

If it does nothing at all, it sounds like something in the remote wiring that controls the solenoids. I have mine wired to a switch in the cab also. When the remote stops working it is nice to be able to still control the winch.
Dan