Canadian Tire winch?

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kinda ashamed to say as I consider myself to be very pro active with maintenance but I have NEVER opened up a winch to service...
what am I looking for? just clean and regrease?
 

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kinda ashamed to say as I consider myself to be very pro active with maintenance but I have NEVER opened up a winch to service...
what am I looking for? just clean and regrease?

Haha , yeh it's one of those things as long as it's working it's good .
Mine started to not free wheel so decided to check into it. Glad I did as it was dirty as h*ll and probably would have given me trouble .
Yes I just clean and re-grease the gear side of things and re-Lube the drum seals.
Works like it should again.
 

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I try to do mine every year or two. The grease just turns to mud after a while. Plus I like to seal up the joints in the motor housing.

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Actually the last rt25 warn i had fail every dam gear inside that winch was plastic. But I heard they are now metal but i haven't bought another one
I've never seen an rt25 with plastic gears ,and only the can am branded warns ,with plastic housings. The can am branded warns also don't have a seal kit like a regular rt25.
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I take the winch off, clean thoroughly, re wrap the wire. And grease with amsoil water resistant grease, the blue stuff. Get it at peavey mart. I don't open the winches up until they make a lot of racket, or stop working/free wheel.

the winch that came on the front of our 05' Arctic cat quad is a warn, it had a plastic outer planetary gear housing.
 
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It was a few years back came factory in a brute force. Maybe kawi had warn make them even cheaper.

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They clean up real good and work great again.
8 /10 times its not the winch but the operator. Duty cycle is the big one. A 2500 LB winch pulling 2500 lbs for 10 seconds requires a 10-12 minute cool down. It's in your winches owners manual.
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Layers on the drum is another big one. Winches are ALL rated with one layer on the drum. Every layer you add significantly reduces your winches pulling power.
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They are all made in China essentially.... And the little Asian guy will put on what ever sticker they tell him to ....
Point is China makes some good stuff , poor stuff and medium stuff.
The well known winch makers at least have a reputation and / or feedback
, apposed to some no name pos .
Be it a superwinch / runva / badlands or whatever , at least you can have some actual owners chime in ...
There will always be a cheap winch ( like every other thing ) that exceeds your expectations , conversely there will always be an expensive item that disappoints . Such is life ...

On average , always buy in the middle , you can only be half wrong .
Worst case scenario....lol
 
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Learning more than I expected from this post :). Thanks for all the input everyone. I didn't even know my winch came with s manual haha but when you read through the info it all makes sense. The duty cycle is the most valuable info as I didn't know about the long cool down periods recommended.
 

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I take the winch off, clean thoroughly, re wrap the wire. And grease with amsoil water resistant grease, the blue stuff. Get it at peavey mart. I don't open the winches up until they make a lot of racket, or stop working/free wheel.

the winch that came on the front of our 05' Arctic cat quad is a warn, it had a plastic outer planetary gear housing.

Yes all the previous generation warns A,CI and CL had composite housings.
 

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They clean up real good and work great again.
8 /10 times its not the winch but the operator. Duty cycle is the big one. A 2500 LB winch pulling 2500 lbs for 10 seconds requires a 10-12 minute cool down. It's in your winches owners manual.
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Layers on the drum is another big one. Winches are ALL rated with one layer on the drum. Every layer you add significantly reduces your winches pulling power.
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10-12 minute cool down? Don't you mean beer break?


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Yep duty cycle is huge, get a winch that is larger than you'll ever need and you'll be Golden.
Get the winch below and you could pull your side x side through skeg all day if you want.

If I ever get a new SxS that is what Id run. The people I use to go with would stop every mile for a "beer break"
Lucky if you made it 10km all day.... Not really my thing.

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I will have to admit i bought a canadiantire winch, it was on sale dam cheap and if you spent 200 you got a 50 dollar gift card. I resold it. People like getting deals on kiiiji, i love them asking what is wrong with it and why are you selling it so cheap. Not hard to see it has never been opened if you ask me. I do not know anything about them, but they look nice.
 
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I have a Crappy Tire 4000lb on my quad and it works great. No real long term test yet though. A buddy had one on his rzr a 4000lb as well and he said it worked great.

as for the guys saying winch broke and they are stranded, you should be packing a come-along justvin case. The Warn winches break too... But there are good and bad cheap chinese winches. Are the Vipers still around? I thought they were supposed to be a really good cheap winch??
 
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