Trailer Power Winch

[RABBITFISH]

I have two of those powerwinches. After several years of use the clutch? brake starts to slip and it won't lock in anymoore. Is it possible to rebuild them? The motors work fine, but I never got around to trying to fix them. Is it a complicated thing to rebuild the clutch parts?

[phatdaddy]

most are 2 or 3 friction disc washers, just stack new ones in like the old ones came out. kinda like drag wahers on reel.

[macojoe]

Got mine apart today, its a T2400 and its the biggest gear in there looking at the cable, its the right side. 2 teeth broke off next to each other.
My camera is broke, going to use my daughters later to get a pic.

[garagenc]

Willy
The blue wire (if I remember correctly) on the plug in mounted on the bumper is the hot wire, You can splice into the wire (on the trailer) using any kind of connector you want tieing it into the connection on the winch. That way you don't have to run a new wire from under the bumper.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by macojoe

Got mine apart today, its a T2400 and its the biggest gear in there looking at the cable, its the right side. 2 teeth broke off next to each other.
My camera is broke, going to use my daughters later to get a pic.

Yup, got one. That's the gear that the gear connected directly to the output shaft of the motor drives. I have the older style (several thin gears laminated together, stronger, but more expensive to make, so they went to one piece gears) but I'm 99.44% certain it will fit right in. I'll dig it out and take a few pics tonight and send then to you so you can count teeth.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by RABBITFISH

I have two of those powerwinches. After several years of use the clutch? brake starts to slip and it won't lock in anymoore. Is it possible to rebuild them? The motors work fine, but I never got around to trying to fix them. Is it a complicated thing to rebuild the clutch parts?

Naaa... kind of easy really. Take out the 2 long bolts on the top of your winch, then the 4 shorter screws on the sides near the bottom and unscrew the clutch knob. Take the two parts of the shell apart to expose the guts. Like Phatdady said, they are just friction washers like the drag on a fishing reel. Remove the old and replace with new. You can buy them directly from Powerwinch. Go to their site (www.powerwinch.com) and look at the manual for your winch. (Caution, their site sucks, so it might not be there) But their customer service is pretty good and will know what you need. Just buy the new disks, remove the old ones and reassemble. Piece of cake.

[RABBITFISH]

Thanks a lot Destroyer! That will be on my next project lits!



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