Runva winch help please.

[suzookyman]

I have taken my steel cable off my winch and have got some plasma to go on but cant see how to attach the rope to the drum securely, how have you guys done it?
cheers Al

[meatc]

Splice a small loop in the end of the rope and use the original bolt witha washer on top. There should be next to no load on the rope at that point. Its just there to hold it until the first 1/2 doz wraps take some weight.

[suzookyman]

Hmm, looks like i'm going back to Cooks tomorow to get some splicing done, thanks Dan .
cheers Al

[Sadam_Husain]

Its not load bearing its only there to hold the end of the rope in place while you spool it onto the drum so you'd probably get away with a half arsed attempt at splicing a loop or threading the rope through itself by doing it yourself

[meatc]

Its not that hard and on that end doen't need to be super flash. Trim some of the strands so the last 100mm or so tapers down to about half the diameter. Snap a bic ball point pen and tape the clear bit to the tapered end about 3-400mm from end push rope together (along length) and feed penend through a gap on weave and pull to you get a small loop, feed back through the other way about 100mm further along the feed it into the centre of the rope and work slack down (like the missus works elastic into your over size pants ) Pull pen out and take off. All done.

Not sure if Darin could show ya cause think John always did theirs

[vvilly]

sorry for the thread jack but i have a runva 9500 as well and i was under the impression that you cant put plasma ropes on them?

[meatc]

sorry for the thread jack but i have a runva 9500 as well and i was under the impression that you cant put plasma ropes on them?

Like most low mounts (Superwinch and come excluded) the drum may get warm if you power it out lots as it over runs the brake and gets warm, supposedly bad for the rope. In saying that my rear mount rope runs past the exhaust manifold and gets quite warm and I havent broken that yet despite nearly stall the 6hp on a 8274

[suzookyman]

sorry for the thread jack but i have a runva 9500 as well and i was under the impression that you cant put plasma ropes on them?

I see them on trade me new with plasma,so suppose its ok.

[mike21]

i run plasma on my 9500 and its sweet as

[suzukisport]

There are a couple of winch trucks that use this winch who run plasma on them fine, I think DieselBoy runs this winch with plasma in winch comps and as far as I know its fine to use.

[Sadam_Husain]

you can cook the synthetic rope but I've only ever seen one low mount that did it and it turned out there was a problem with the brake being reassembled backwards or something like that?

[T-Boon]

guy I got mine from said get an electrical crimp, crimp it on and your good, as above its only to hole it in place till it gets some load on it.

[suzookyman]

guy I got mine from said get an electrical crimp, crimp it on and your good, as above its only to hole it in place till it gets some load on it.

now that sounds easy! off to the sparky i go.

[albundy]

I used an electrical crimp on mine, no issues. I also run dynex overbraided synthetic rope, not the blue stuff. Have done a few very hard pulls on it and the rope doesn'r get hot. It's only when you run it out in gear that it will get too hot like the fellas are saying.
Al

[flyingbrick]

bahahah. I remember at Vvega's place when i had my first m8000 warn with siezed freespool we wound out the entire drum by using reverse. The rope was coming off so hot that oil and grease in the wire rope was smoking and the rope was far too hot to hold.

[DieselBoy]

If you really are concerned about the heat affecting the rope, its quite simple to get an idea of how much heat is generated.

Take all the rope off the drum.

Run the winch in reverse for a while. (5mins should be heaps)

Chances are it will hardly even get warm.

If your winch is in good operating condition, you should have no issue with heat build up.

I run Plasma on my Runva EWX9500 for over two years and haven't had any heat issues to date