winch fair lead

Posted by dana in ma [70.192.26.177] on Wednesday, April 03, 2013 at 07:50:04 :

The other day I was using my truck to winch some trees out of a hard to get at area. Winch worked great but noticed a ton of wear on the sides of the bumperettes where the cable rubbed. Made some deep grooves. I think I'm going to put some lead rollers on there to take care of it. What I'm wondering about is why Dodge didn't worry about this and install fair leads on the winch to begin with. I know back in the war times non one really cared about a little wear on the bumperettes because the trucks were basically disposable, but if you used the winch every day and couldn't pull "staight on" all the time, you could get some serious wear in a short amount of time.

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• Re: winch fair lead - derek 22:31:22 04/03/2013
  • Re: winch fair lead - dana in ma 08:11:49 04/04/2013
• Little rollers are bad for cable. - Chris Case 09:01:38 04/03/2013
  • Re: Little rollers are bad for cable. - Daryl in Oz 19:39:55 04/03/2013
    • Like dragging paper over a sharp desk edge... - Chris Case 21:39:15 04/03/2013
      • Re: Like dragging paper over a sharp desk edge... - dana in ma 12:53:34 04/05/2013
      • Re: Like dragging paper over a sharp desk edge... - Clint Dixon 16:47:19 04/04/2013
      • Re: Like dragging paper over a sharp desk edge... - Daryl in Oz 06:18:30 04/04/2013
  • Re: Little rollers are bad for cable. - dana in ma 13:50:44 04/03/2013

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