I don't know anything about winches but I just bought a Venom 2000lb winch for my 03 Sportsman 400 and the contactor was defective.Venom Winches had me a new one in my mailbox in 4 days at no cost to me.The whole kit costs $131.00 shipped to my door.I think for the money and customer service they are a great buy.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

i have the warn #2500"s..if i did it again i would have bought the warn #3000 just because i could have used the extra hp a few times..my 2500# did it but the #3000 would have done it eaiser...DONT SKIMP BY A WARN.. that all i'll say..

 

What about overpowering the battery with the larger XT30 winch. Anyone have this problem with a larger winch???

 

Wanting to know how you like the XTR's. I'm looking for new tires for myself.


thanks

 

i've had two venom winch's and did great and are still going for the price you can't beat them

 

as far as power goes on the winch draw i think there around the same. but you have to remember that your drawing straight off the battery and atv charging systems dont put out alot of juice to recharge it quickly. there for if you use the winch alot it will wear down battery if you dont use the wheeler alot of time.
personally i love my xtr tires. coolhands if you get a winch for your 800, make it a 3.0 size. heavy bike when your mired in mud. just a suggestion.

 

im running a 2500 off my scrambler battery witch is half the size of the sportsmans with the battery under the seat and never had a problem.

 

Listen to Stendori! GEt the wwinch that will handle a worst case scenario.

 

Have no doubt i wiil put a 3000 lb winch on it or better but so far the bike has been great only had one scare when i shut it down and tryed to crank it again no power luckly it was just the battery cable loose but what a scare

 

When you are up to your cahonies in sticky mud and you come to find if you would have spent $100.00 more to get out. HHHMMM
With that said, I have a superwinch 1500 on the front of a 6x6. All it will ever do is lift the 5 foot plow. and don't forget doubling your power with a pulley. Doc