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Saffy:
pm your emaill addy.

Eh? Destroying the roller fairlead I think would be an unwise move, the non standard size is rocking horse poop and give you no end of hassle to replace... just remove the rope totally from drum as you will need to do that anyway as it too blooming heavy to work with otherwise.The end of rope is held to drum with two grub screws which are probably seized.  Also  its cheaper and easier to cut hook off rope and refit/swage that if for some bizarre reason you can't remove rope fully. . I use synthetic rope and the hawse fairlead was machined by goodwinch for a fair few penny.

You may find the PTO drop box was modified by a previous owner to rotate it at an angle so that it doesn't hang straight down in such a vulnerably location as it does as standard.

wizard:
Hi

I had to cut the rollers off because the winch enguage/disenguage clutch had seized.
I'll machine up some new rollers next week.

Eventually got the lump on the bench, it weights a ton. I think the front of the defender went up 2 inches once i managed to lift the winch off.

I stripped off the end housing and freed up the dog clutch, just got to get the housing back on and refit it.

wizard

Saffy:
fair enough then on the reason to cut fairlead, nice to see what you come up with - take some pix and post to thread when you machine up something... maybe something you can sell in future... I might be interested if i ever go back to steel rope. but as you now know the winch with that rope (13mm rope that was on mine) weighs down the front no end where as the synthetic is negligible weight (but these days I do not keep rope on the winch at all for security reasons). Mine does have H.D springs on front too.

Have sent the fitting manual to the addy in your pm. 

Pretty straightforward releasing the clutch, mine is still nice and free.

wizard:
The winch is sorted and back on the truck.
I made up an operating lever for the PTO, but i am battling to get the drive shaft on.
I had two supporting brackets with the box of parts, one I have mounted on the transfer box about 6 inches from the PTO shaft, however it is not in line.
The other bracket was quite badly mangled, I know it fits to the front of the sump but it is not inline with the input shaft on the winch.

I also need some sort of sliding joint that goes between shaft and winch. I emailed Superwinch yesterday to see what spares they offer.

Is there anyone near Cardiff with an operation PTO winch that I can have a look at ?

SAFFY, does the drive shaft fit between the chassis and exhaust or between exhaust and sump ? and if possible can you send me a photo or two of the front and rear mountings of the shaft.

I also had a look on Youtube to see if I could find any good shots of the PTO system but so far drew a blank.

regards
wizard

Saffy:
I will sort some photo out later for you.

the shaft runs between exhaust and sump, it's so close to sump towards rear it may even vibrate against it.

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