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Posted by D Sherman on Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 12:27:12 :
I had to bring my M37 into town, so I thought I'd install the superwinch hubs I bought last winter. It's kind of silly because I'll never drive this truck on the highway, but I had them so I might as well put them on. I bought them because they were only $70 on Amazon.com. I guess I got what I paid for, which isn't much. The housings look to be flimsy die castings, and the screws that hold the cap onto the base are weird special little allen head screws with tapered heads. Neither English nor Metric allen wrenches fit them very well so it's hard to get them tight. They will surely get all rusty and full of mud and will be impossible to ever remove. In my opinion, allen-head screws belong on precision machinery in a protected environment, but they don't belong anywhere on a vehicle. You can't get a socket on the flange nuts unless you take out these stupid little screws and take the cap off. That means you have to use an open-end wrench to unscrew all those fine-thread nuts a quarter turn at a time. If the flange studs come out with their nuts, which usually happens, you'd have to work around the hub screwing each stud out a quarter inch or so more while backing the hub off. It's a poor design implemented in poor materials. As long as I have them, I feel compelled to use them, but I'll be sure to keep the real hubs under the seat for when the superwinch ones break.
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