I'm selling the winch, and I'm giving it a dry test to make sure it works before it goes. I've hooked it up, but it's not doing anything. What am I doing wrong?

Here is the battery connections:




Here is the winch:




Here is the negative wire, squeezed in between the frame and the bumper attachment point:




I turn on the truck, and hit the switch, but nothing happens. Let me know

thanks!

 

i would say make sure your ground is solid. otherwise

 

Whats that brownish stuff in between your positive battery terminal and your ring terminal?

 

copper extension piece

 

try moving your ring terminal here, after cleaning the hell out of the ring and battery terminals..

 

Did you ground the small wire from the selenoid?

 

I think that is the problem that I'm not grounding that wire properly. Where do I hook that one into?

Gangus-- I can try moving the + off the copper terminal but I think that part is fine, b/c the rest of the truck is hooked up to the other end of that copper piece and it still turns on.

 

have you double checked the connections from the solinoids to the motor also

 

I checked those .. they have the ruber connectors over them, and are good, I pulled the rubber back and its tight.

 

Why not run the ground wire right to the - side of hte battery?

 

It needs to be ground on the frame. At least that's how I understood it

 

Either way its the same. The frame is basically a huge wire connected to the - side of the battery. They say ground tot he frame for convenience, but if possible, you should send it right to the battery..

 

Are the solenoids clicking when you hit the in/out switch? If so, they may need to work to get them going. Sometimes just cleaning the connections for them will help.

 

ok it works now .. it was just the dumb ground wire, I attached it to the neg terminal and everything worked (thanks gangus) and thanks to everyone else as well.

 

w00t...glad i could help.

 

The frame is not always exactly the best ground, since the ground must return to the batter, the frame has rubber connections, lots of rust, paint, and too many resistance factors. It's best to ground something either to the battery or engine block.

 

Warn mandates the winch be hooked directly to the battery in it directions. So i simply hook everything up to me brand new yellow top battery and used the side posts to hook up nothing but the winch. Its a nice set up I will take a pic of it and show you guys....

 

Yes, best to hook direct to the battery, power and ground. However, if you have an Optima RedTop, best not to hook the winch to the side posts, they are not rated to handle with winching current for a long period of time. I've heard of folks doing so and blowing the internal side post connection in the battery. Use the side posts for aux. loads, but keep the starter and winch connected to the beefier top posts.

 

What about a Yellow Top??? Or are they about the same??? Just curious....

 

Yes, Yellow Top is fine, that is why I specifically mentioned the RedTop:

See note #7: http://www.humvee.net/hid/parts/partslst.html

Not sure if this is still the case or not. The problem is/was related to the red tops having a small gauge conductor running from the top post to the side post. In the yellow and blue tops, there is a heavy cast metal conductor between the two posts, so both are equally rated for high current loads.