Hi. I am installing a winch on my rubicon. Ive got it figured out except which wire to splice into comming out from the ignition. I tapped into the red one and it can't be right because when i hit the reverst switch on the winch it kills the motor and the winch doesn't go into reverse. The remaining wires are pink,black, and red with a black stripe on it . Is it the red one with the stripe?

Please advise and thanks

 

Are you trying to wire up the winch's ignition-kill wire? If so I used a test light to check which wire was hot before killing the ignition and which one was cold after the key was turned to off. I believe it ended up being the pink one but I wired into it behind the fuse block.

 

Red with a black stripe should be keyed ignition wire

Black should be battery power

I would suggest connecting it to the red/black, so the key has to be on to use the winch.
If it is connected to constant power and a kid climbs on it when you are not around and starts pushing switches, you could have a serious mess of cable at hand, and to keep any draw from the winch from draining the battery when the bike is not running.


----- Gimpster -----

 

ok i found the right wire but what happens is when i hit the swith to wind the winch it works fine. But when hitting the farward switch nothing happens, only a click in the connecter box. The way it's wired is a pos and neg from batt to connector box. a pos and neg from connector box to winch and a pos and neg wire from box to switch.

any ideas?

 

I would double check your connections to make sure everything is wired correctly. It sounds like your switch may be bad. If no one gives you any more ideas on this forum, post on the Highlifter Forum: www.highlifter.com. They're usually a big help.

 

If it is a Warn, there should one more wire ( 12 or 14 gauge ) going to the the solenoid where the switch wires plug in to. It is a black wire that should be routed back to the battery ground cable where it bolts to the solenoid. Make sure it is routed in the right place.
If this is all correct, disconnect the yellow and the blue battery cables at the winch, take a test light and check if there is current to one of them when the switch is depressed 'in' and if there is to the other when the switch is depressed 'out' . If one way has no light, the solenoud is bad. If there is light in both directions, there is possably a brush stuck within the winch.

----- Gimpster -----