The Tabor is Warn's original China made winch. It looks like I may be able to pickup a replacement motor on eBay. Ideally I'd like to get a new winch and pickup a new motor for the Tabor and mount in the bed. Sunday was another example of how handy a rear winch would be.
. . . but the more i dig in to these warn 8274 units there a ANIMAL stock and few bucks extra for bigger warn motor and there a HOT rod . they pull way over the 8k stock rating and still have the fastest line speed .
I can't complain too much. This was a winch my dad gave me. It came on a truck he bought but he didn't want it. It's done some hard pulling in it's time. I did find a replacement motor but it's going to set me back $370.
It was single line pull. We were talking about a snatch block about the time the winch gave out. We were having some issue with the distance from anchor points; we had to use as many as 3 straps to reach a couple of times. Has me thinking more seriously about getting a true winch line extension.did you do a single line pull ? or a snatch block pulley for a double line back to you ? yes each pulley is slower in speed 50% but puts less work on the winch basically .
i vote a warn 8274 up front and rebuilt tabor in the frame rails on the back . i know the 8274 is big and bulky but there the std for big recovery jobs in the offroad . there is a reason guys mod these 2 the extreme . the drums hold around 125ft of 3/8 cable and dont even put the 5/16 on if you mod them as its the super weak link . there is wide and extra wide drum kits to hold MEGA lengths of line . otherwise there great stockish form .
but thats just me cause i have a few extra winches
I don't think I mentioned above that I had sent you a text. It was crazy the place we got stuck was the one place we had any kind of service; just enough to send a text. When @doubletrouble told me he wasn't sure he could come with us I told him if he couldn't then he had to be ready to come rescue us. So the first text I sent was "Standby" and his reply was "O sh!t".
I tried to use the front winch to pull the rear of the truck back onto the trail on our snowmaggedon run 6 years ago. I was so excited we had it all hooked up and I thought it was bound to succeed. But the sad ending to that story is that's how I broke my first synthetic winch line.
I have a good coil of steel winch line and I was wondering about how much load a cable clamp can hold. The only downside is the weight and a place to put it. Although I was thinking I might be able to come up with a way to nest the coil of steel cable in the wheel of the spare tire.
I had to pull a 1 ton 4x4 wrecker forward and sideways once with only the rear winches. Poor trees had to hold up to 9200lbs in the mud.
