On a added note the wrikle polaris one sounded alot noiser than the warns that I had before. This replacement one sounds quieter. Maybe I got the Friday evening produced one, if the Chinese have a Friday evening.

 

i here that. thats my luck most of the time lol. hey how do you like your virago? i had a 96' b4 i bought my vmax?

 

i am not realy to upset.. i have used it to plow 2 seasons and have probaly 30 good hard pulls on it.. i have not been gentel on it .. but like i said the first few times, man she had some power my batt is getting kinda weak, that colud be some of it too i suppose.. it has alos been submerged many of times.

 

every winch will have its maxed point..i've maxed out my 2500 a few times. and all factory polaris winches are warn

 

Quote from Polaris page on the Polaris winch "Designed, engineered and tested by Polaris to ensure high standards of quality" (snicker snicker) and it is made in China. I still have my box in the shed.

--Stendori: Had my Virago a few years but looking to get away from the noisey V-twin, figger come spring will be out doing some browsing. Need something comfy.

 

****** blocks and extra straps are easy to find Northern carries awhaole mess of them and with a ****** block you can double your pulling power .

 

I have the Polaris (not Warn for Polaris) 2500, and it has an intermittent operation problem. About 50% of the time it clicks but doesn't put power on the motor. One mechanic I talked to (without any interest in my problem) said that almost all of them are doing the same thing. If you want it to go down you have to bump it up, then down. Seems to me that the relay is either bad or ?? I just bought one of the "Warn for Polaris" kits for my other machine, the relay looks identical to the Polaris kit.

Has anyone else ran into this problem?

 

I have the same winch as you Indyguy and had the same problem. I took it back to the dealer and they fixed it right away. If I remember right, this was back in December, I believe he said it was the contactor plate that was shot. It works good now, I've used it quite a bit this winter as the lift on my snow blade.

 

if all the conections are tight, then its going to be the contacter thats bad. gorilla had a few problems w/ theres as well. i havent seen these new ones yet, do they have the 4 post contacters?

 

Warn and Ramsey are the best winches you can buy, alot of the manual PTO winches found on WW2 utility trucks and jeeps were built by Ramsey, they've been around for a long time.

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