Someone told me to share this here so here we go. I picked up a pretty beat up Warn xd9000i for cheap a month ago with the intent of rebuilding it. It ended up being a bit more than I was hoping for, but it was still a lot of fun. I broke up the posts on my build thread into sections that I'll just paste here to share. Also I guess I can only post 10 images at a time and I tried to take a lot of pics, so I'll just split those posts up.
Part 1a, Initial Major Cleaning 11/18/12
Did a lot of work on the winch today. I'm waiting on a response from Warn. My serial number is lower than the ones they list on their website. Not sure what that means, but hopefully they email me back next week.
So here's what I started with.
Warn XD9000i, Serial #359923. This thing has seen some better days. There is a lot of chipped paint on it. If you look on the left side of the picture, you'll see that at some point, the wire ripped through the body and cut a chunk off. I also noticed that one of the screw holes in the gear housing is cracked. Overall, it was in pretty crappy condition. Let's take it apart and see what we find.
First, we'll take the gears out.
Ok, not the worst. The teeth are in good shape. Not too much rust here (note that this was after I wiped it down a little bit). Let's look at the gears themselves.
Yup. This should be interesting. Let's remove the outer gear.
Mother of god. Let's take more apart.
So the good news is that all the teeth seem to be in good shape. At some point, some water must've sat in here and the PO probably didn't bother to get it out. I dont think this winch has ever been opened really.
So I spent several hours cleaning this gearbox. Here are the results:
Continued...
Part 1a, Initial Major Cleaning 11/18/12
Did a lot of work on the winch today. I'm waiting on a response from Warn. My serial number is lower than the ones they list on their website. Not sure what that means, but hopefully they email me back next week.
So here's what I started with.
Warn XD9000i, Serial #359923. This thing has seen some better days. There is a lot of chipped paint on it. If you look on the left side of the picture, you'll see that at some point, the wire ripped through the body and cut a chunk off. I also noticed that one of the screw holes in the gear housing is cracked. Overall, it was in pretty crappy condition. Let's take it apart and see what we find.
First, we'll take the gears out.
Ok, not the worst. The teeth are in good shape. Not too much rust here (note that this was after I wiped it down a little bit). Let's look at the gears themselves.
Yup. This should be interesting. Let's remove the outer gear.
Mother of god. Let's take more apart.
So the good news is that all the teeth seem to be in good shape. At some point, some water must've sat in here and the PO probably didn't bother to get it out. I dont think this winch has ever been opened really.
So I spent several hours cleaning this gearbox. Here are the results:
Continued...