JPaul
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Hook is on, and I still haven't put that spring back on for the cable tensioner. It's a very strong spring, and I figure it'll be a lot easier to get on once I have the cable pulled all of the way out and don't have to try and stretch it so far.
I still haven't hooked it up to the battery, I want to swap the terminals out for some brass marine style terminals that I already have. I also have no plans on hooking up the circuit breaker that the winch came with (which to me just seems like an electrical fire/accident waiting to happen), I had never seen anyone attach a circuit breaker in line with their winch before, and everything I could find out about it didn't give me a lot of faith that I really needed it.
Here it is, fully mounted in all of it's uber cheap glory:
By the way, I have no idea what that glowing bluish green dot is under the gearbox, I'm guessing it's a reflection from the sun off of my phone.
Here is a slightly better lit shot of it while getting some pizza for dinner:
I still need to hook it to the battery and then pull out the cable, re-attach the tensioner spring, and bring the line back in under tension. Considering what I paid for it, I'm pretty pleased. It should give me enough service with how often I go get stuck (which so far, has been not at all, but hopefully that will change very soon) for me to get $200 worth of use out of it.
I still haven't hooked it up to the battery, I want to swap the terminals out for some brass marine style terminals that I already have. I also have no plans on hooking up the circuit breaker that the winch came with (which to me just seems like an electrical fire/accident waiting to happen), I had never seen anyone attach a circuit breaker in line with their winch before, and everything I could find out about it didn't give me a lot of faith that I really needed it.
Here it is, fully mounted in all of it's uber cheap glory:
By the way, I have no idea what that glowing bluish green dot is under the gearbox, I'm guessing it's a reflection from the sun off of my phone.
Here is a slightly better lit shot of it while getting some pizza for dinner:
I still need to hook it to the battery and then pull out the cable, re-attach the tensioner spring, and bring the line back in under tension. Considering what I paid for it, I'm pretty pleased. It should give me enough service with how often I go get stuck (which so far, has been not at all, but hopefully that will change very soon) for me to get $200 worth of use out of it.