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Right under the factorey grill. This needs a slight mod

 

CK=CatKrazy

Ck, you ever take the Warn off and clean it. They are not sealed. I learned the hard way.

 

yes i did with my 300, havent had the 500 long enough i guees,but yes its a Son of a gun to do it if you ask me

 

You wouldnt believ how many people have told me "dont use your winch unless you have to its the first to go" Well no kidding. If you take care of it and clean it it will last at least the one on my 300 has. now the one on my 425 polaris did not,but this is where i learned

 

I had 2 of them lock up on me (full of mud). Some guys on the trail one day told me that they weren't sealed. I started mounting them on the front rack. It keeps them clean and dry but when you pull someone else out of the mud it pulls the rearend off the ground. Tries to flip over. Works fine for self-winching.

I don't really like the factory AC winch mount. It's kind of ugly.

 

If you mount it to the rack won't it bend?? if it doesn't you must not be stuck that bad! We twisted the rack on the 450 using just a tow rope on it once.

 

No, it won't bend the rack on a 450. I had a Warn 2000 on my 02' 450ES mounted on the rack. The rack on the Foreman is pretty strong. I pulled myself and several other people out of mudholes without bending anything. Was your friend pulling you out taking a running start and yanking? Remeber, the winch is a steady solid pull. I even used a ****** block and butted up against a tree to pull out a couple of really bad stucks. When you use the block it doubles the capacity.

 

warn has a new winch that is sealed. The 3.0i i think it is called. It is $ 130 more or so than the unsealed 2.5i

 

No, the 450 honda is my brothers (still has it) and i think it was the first day out that we bent it. I think i was using dad's 300 honda back then, and we NEVER yank the strap, this is dangerous, no to mention stupid. You can't tell that it's bent, but the loop in the back rack (one on each side-where if there was someone on the back they's likely hold on here) is touching the plastic on one side, and the other side it's about 1" off the plastic.

Can you pack the winch full of grease?? will it make cleaning it last longer?

Since we're talking about winches, my uncle has a big bear, with a Warn winch (2000lb) and i can hold the cable while he is winching it in and the gears just grind and it doesn't pull the line in. I've been told that the nylon gears in there need to be replaced every couple of years. Is this that hard or what??

 

The gears are full of grease inside the housing. The problem is after riding in rack deep mud and water over a period of time there is nothing left of the grease. I made a mounting plate for the winch on the 450. I used a peice of 1/4 flat steel a little bigger than the winch. That maybe why I never bent the rack.

I had a similar problem with mine not pulling very strong. The gearset under power are not nylon by the way. Mine turned out to be the brushes were full of mud. After cleaning them out it pulled like new again.