DON'T use your winch before watching this! How to correctly RE-SPOOL winch rope

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This episode of The Average Garage is a very short video demonstrating and explaining how to Re-spool your winch rope, Whether you have just replaced your cable with rope or your renewing your rope, You NEED to do this!
DON'T do what I did and become lazy, It'll bite you in the ASS.

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music: Artist: Jarico
Song: Island [NCS BEST OF]

[electropentatonic]

A lot of stupidity in the comments. I've worked the oilfields and electrical industry my entire life. We winch up a lot more weight than a measley pickup. We do not load up the winch with a 1000 lbs everytime we spool it back up. Put on a glove, pull the rope tight, and guide it left to right, then back over itself right to left. It's not rocket science. This is the same with 3/8 vehicle line or 1.5" bull rope on 10 hp tugger. These kids throw on a spacer lift and a winch and think they're recovery gurus...

[artthurman]

Love the license plate folding hinge cover.

[IntenseInvestor]

The winch I just bought said to preload with "at least 500 pounds" when respooling the winch.

[Oblivionsurveyor]

Last 8 or 9 ft does not need to be tensioned because you always will use that much before connecting the line to anything.

[Deerector]

Great idea with the tire. I always used a true and like u said, it was tough steering the rope onto the drum

[tonesbones]

Hi mate, I don’t want to add to the collection of negative comments on here but I feel I should advise you to spool in from the bottom of the drum (I think your winch may be installed upside down, easily fixed by just rotating your clutch lever). The reason being is your auto drum brake most likely won’t work in that direction (and that’s very dangerous).
Don’t be deterred to make other vids.

[arturm.]

Sorry dude, but you made it wrong! First of all you should rolling rope in oposite direction on the dram, it must be under the dram. Maby you or someone in shop conected power wire in wrong way. Second thing is? the spare weel is to light to make correct preload. Better idea is to conect rope to anchor point and pooling the car evan with parking brake with 50 percent pull on.

[davidlovejoy]

Can I suggest that you don't use a winch until you have some training. This was a catalogue of errors

[muzzaball]

The idea of tensioning the first half of the cable is to prepare it for actual pulling of the vehicle - you have not done this. Dragging a 10kg? wheel along the ground hardly mimics dragging a 1800kg 4wd in a recovery situation. You may as well have left it how it was. Tension on the rope was the point, and you applied bugger all.

[DonsShed]

great video bud :) you've got a new subscriber :) Cheers, Don, Perth WA, MY22 Fortuner (Dons Shed and Xplor Overland)

[fordyford]

👍. I'll let the towie know if I ever need pulling out of the sand on tack.

[paulazcona]

You might want to respool it so it pulls from the bottom of the drum.

[robertladiges]

This is why YouTube is the greatest thing ever... if you want to learn something new chances are someone has done it, recorded it, and uploaded it

[LarryRichelli]

My winch says that to use at least a 1000lbs load to respool it.

[rw]

Love your videos mate
I have a 2016 pajero sport and about to fit a piak elite 3 loop (the new one with recessed lamps).
What winch are you using?? Have been told that the piak bars are winch specific as in there is not to much space. Im looking into a VRS winch. Any pics of your control box mounting??

[MH-gown]

Your initial problem was caused by spooling the rope in without proper load on it. Then you made a video about it but still didn’t use proper load!
You need minimum 1000 lbs on the other end. What you did is better than no load at all.. but you’re still going to pinch your line

[VagusNomad]

I’m new to this stuff, is the car engine turn on when we are using the winch? and is it a must to have second battery installed on my car if I have winch? Thankyou

[byronsanchez]

I think your winch is upside down?
The synthetic rope supposed to go under the spool!
Unless I’m wrong 😬

[DependableAutoTruck]

if i understand correctly you are winding winch backwards every site i have been to said should pull from the bottom never from the top

[cooperken]

Don’t use your winch after watching this video