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Winches Again
Xtremeteam:
--- Quote from: "davidlandy" ---no brake pads in 4 yrs - you clearly havent been using your motor hard enough ole chap :!:
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i do pads every 3 weekends if im playing hard,
D6 was a set o rear pads in a weekend :lol:
Mudlark:
--- Quote from: "SmokeyNtheBandit" ---
--- Quote from: "davidlandy" ---no brake pads in 4 yrs - you clearly havent been using your motor hard enough ole chap :!:
--- End quote ---
i do pads every 3 weekends if im playing hard,
D6 was a set o rear pads in a weekend :lol:
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Interesting.... Why do you use brakes to that extent off-road??
You don't safari do you? :-k :-k :-k :lol: :lol:
Toppa:
Im no expert on winches by a long shot, i have never used an electric winch, mainly because my truck came with a Fairy/superwinch, im a bit lost as to which as i beleave they became the same thing, i dont do trials (would love to one day) but i have used my winch in anger on several occasions, without any problems, have pulled myself dead weight for a approx 30m out of a swamp, using two 90's as an anchour point, at one stage i was dragging both 90's to me rather than me out of the swamp..
The pto can be used with drive going to the wheel, but as said, the wheels drive at a different speed.
PTO's are very strong there is no doubt about it, but they are akward to use, the release on the winch drum is near on impossable to release when the cable is under load, they are ideally a two man operation which in it self slows the whole process down, possably one advantage is you can use them in all gears to give you a veriety of spooling speeds, except of course reverse, but of course you need the engine running to winch, i have been stuck before, stalled out, couldnt start, couldnt winch...
Well that is my 2 cents worth...
Cheers
Mudlark:
Apparently according to TOR mechanical are coming into their own again with some capable of doing a 1:1 with wheel speed
That means it has to be turning around 16 times faster than the wheel :shock: :shock:
davidlandy:
its not about using the brakes Mudlark, its the mud n crap that wears them out
I have done 3 sets of rears in about 3000 miles to 1 set of fronts!
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