I am having more winch problems that I have ever expected. I bought a gorilla winch xtr 3000lb winch. All worked well then then one of my wire ties broke and a wire for the winch got against the exhausted and melted the wire. Got the new wire tested it before i put everything back on the wheeler and all worked great. Mounted everything up and now the out switch will not work. The in works fine but the out is not
Any ideas?

 

contactor may be stuck had that problem on another contactor i took it apart and played with it and it ended up working.

 

just free-spool your cable out- I don't think i've ever used my out switch, just the free-spool & in switch.

 

that is a good point beergut
it did end up being in the contactor so its all good now

 

there are normally 3 wire's comming from the in/out switch center is + left and right is in and out or vice versa if jou misplace the center wire with left or right it wil do either in or out but not both

 

when you switch to the out side of the connector can you here it clicking.Or try free wheeling it out to see if the cable is bound up.

 

it actually was bound up causing it to wind the opposite way once it reached the point that it was off the drum