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which locking hub should i go with???

which locking hubs to go with

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I run warn hubs that were installed by the previous owner. I haven't had a problem yet with them, and they are XX years old, and run fine. I run my truck through stuff it shouldn't be in, and get it stuck.... alot. and with no retreival equipment (yet), it is all throttle and rocking to get it out. so my warns take a beating.
 
I run warn standard. Warrenty and price was good. Got them a few months and they work better than the splicers I have. My rig went from full time hubs to these so any kind was nice but I dont regret buying the warn hubs.
 
justwhatido said:
I purchased a kit to convert a 1973 from full time to part time. It arrived at a local distributor and I picked it up. The conversion went well till I went to install the Hubs and found that they had shipped external mount hubs.

I contacted Milemarker to swap them out for internal mounts. They were of no help. Told me to contact the local distributor that I'd gotten the kit from. I did and they told me to contact Milemarker. I went back and forth for approx one week and finally purchased a set of Warns from Steve's Offroad in Mobile.

He took the Milemarkers to try and sell them , but the hurricane destroyed the building and the hubs were a casualty I'm sure.

If you purchase hubs and never need assistance from the manufacturer, then Milemarkers are probably fine. But if you want or need customer support, then go with Warn.

Fred
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yep I've got the MM premiums on my 87 K5. Got them at the local O'Reilly autoparts.


It was kind of funny last winter, we were leaving our hunting lease, and after going through some water, my hubs had frozen up.... I pulled out the propane torch I keep in the truck for the gate padlocks. My buddy that has the plastic center Warn hubs hollers "better watch it, you'll melt the plastic! " ... tripped him out when I hollered back "there is no plastic" ....he had to get out of his truck and come see himself. :D
 
I put a set of Superwinch on my 79. 10 bolt. They are gear driven. Never any problems.
 
JonV said:
I put a set of Superwinch on my 79. 10 bolt. They are gear driven. Never any problems.
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Not trying to be a stick in the mud, but for heavy use, rock crawling, extreme stress, and such the superwinch are by far the worst there are. I have never seen a hub break so fast and then do it all over again (robzilla broke 1 warn , and 2 superwinch hubs last weekend within about 300 feet of wheeling and 30 minutes of use)
 
I have Warn Prem on the Black K5 and Warn Stand (PO) on White K5.... When I find a used set of Warn Prem. I'll replace the ones in the White K5....
 
the beast said:
Superwinch are junk. I just took mine out. Used them once and blew one apart. Internals are PLASTIC!! And the allen head screws kept backing out.

A spare Milemarker set I hade wasn't much better in construction.

By the way this is with only 35's & a 10 bolt. I'm going with Warn Premium for my 60.
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I've had Superwinch hubs on mine for about 5 years now without a single problem. Mine don't have any plastic on the inside of them. Maybe they changed them at some point. :dunno:
 
az-k5 said:
Not trying to be a stick in the mud, but for heavy use, rock crawling, extreme stress, and such the superwinch are by far the worst there are. I have never seen a hub break so fast and then do it all over again (robzilla broke 1 warn , and 2 superwinch hubs last weekend within about 300 feet of wheeling and 30 minutes of use)
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Hmm thats strange I rock crawl mine, do mud, and sand, with a locker in the front. My Superwinch are holding up fine. Been running them for many years.
Beat the crap out of o'l Spots.(my k5) I worry more about U jonts than my hubs.:dunno:
Also internals on Superwinch are not plastic ??? Dont know where previous poster got that idea????? My hubs are all metal and after many years of hard use still work great
 
monster man said:
just from my experience, I would reccomend the MM's over the Warn Premiums. After about a year with the Warns, the stupid spring retainer, the sprung washer", kept coming off, leaving me with no front wheel drive. I tried to take them back under warranty, and I needed my original receipt. Warn's customer service was no help at all, and they wouldn't sell me just the spring. They wanted me to buy a whole new hub fuse. I said yeah right, the hub is under warranty first off, and second all I need was the spring. I tried using ground down retainer c-clips instead of the spring, but they didn't work very well. Warn refused to help me out, so I bought the MM's and they've been great since then. Doubt I'll ever buy Warn hubs again, the design is very stupid. I like the MM's because they use a real retaining clip, not a sprung washer. Hope no parts on my Warn winch ever go bad, because I threw the receipt out........
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I had one of mine do that as well, but it's not really essential to using the hub. I removed it on both sides now. The only difference is when you take the cap off the spring/gear pop out. I always pull them apart and clean them anyway so it's actually easier this way for me. It didn't effect the way the hub works at all.
 
Bloody hell who voted! Voting makes dead threads pop back up top. Maybe a good idea would be to force polls to automaticly end after 30 or 60 days?
 
Since this is sort of the same topic, who made the stock hubs on my '88 K5? Also, they're leaking grease and I've tighetened the allen head screws so I'm assuming I just need the replace my old hubs?

Thanks,

Wes
 
Good info here on hubs, did a search before i just ordered my warn premiums, i remember seeing a few hub questions in the last couple weeks so thought i would renew the post instead of making another hub post
 
Someone voted again.

Since it's already up Warn all the way. I didn't know they made another kind...:rolleyes:

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There should have been the option to vote for Spicer hubs.

I'd still vote for Warn premiums for 1/2 and 3/4 tons but for 1 tons, I'm sticking with the good old stock factory Spicers for both 30 and 35 splines.
 
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