Offroad-Express

As the title alludes to, I was wondering if anybody had fitted dyneema to their 80 series factory winch.

If so, did you use 10 or 12mm and the main question how much can you fit on there.

Cheers

Skid

Have a factory high mount toyota winch in my mates winch challenge truck. From memory we get 40M 10mm on it ok.
And about 30m of 12mm... Both have a bit of room to spare.

If its the low mount factory winch..... Don't know...Sorry

type "winch drum calculator" or something like that into google and you'll find lots of calculators you can put all your drum dimensions and rope diameter into to find out how much your drum will hold, you never want to fill the drum to its maximum capacity or it'll be a pain in the arse to winch with as the rope never spools on nicely layer by layer unless you've got a rear/mid mount you'll find you invariably winch off a tree to one side and the rope always bunches up on one side of the drum and ends up binding up and jamming giving you a nice long job trying to get all the rope back out without damaging it further put enough rope on the drum to 2/3 fill it and use the remaining piece to make an extension and use that for the longer pulls and you wont look back and you can pass the advice onto your mate when you watching him trying to unjam his over spooled winch drum

its not about how long it is its about how you use it

derk wrote:
its not about how long it is its about how you use it

i bet you wouldnt say that if you only had 50m of rope and the nearest anchor was 100m away

wopass wrote:i bet you wouldnt say that if you only had 50m of rope and the nearest anchor was 100m away

yeah sign of my life mate

wopass wrote:

derk wrote:
its not about how long it is its about how you use it

i bet you wouldnt say that if you only had 50m of rope and the nearest anchor was 100m away

That's what extensions are for!

Hey Use a factory low mount winch on my comp truck and comfortably have 35mts of 11mm amsteel on there if its on a 80 i would be shying away from the 10mm and going for either 11 or 12mm rope.

Cheers Leigh

I managed to get 50 metres of 12mm on my high mount.

But that was unfeasible if not pulling perfectly straight so the rope lays on nicely..

I shortened it to 40m to avoid the rope fouling ..

It amazes me that some people place such high strength rope on an electric winch when it is totally not necessary.. Say a 9000lb winch (4500kg give or take a bit) on any weight truck will only pull it's rated pull then stall, so why do people put such high rated rope on ? I would have thought you would put 8-10mm max on such a winch as it would stall even with a small rope on, also allowing for more rope on the drum.. 8mm Dynamica Winch Rope 7,300kg breaking load, 6,550kg breaking load at splice would be more then adequate to stall any 9000lb winch and not break. letting the user to put shit loads of rope on.. regardless of size of truck, and if you needed that extra pull.. double purchase (snatch block) would be what to do. My 2 cents on it

^Snatch block

Lchundy wrote:^Snatch block

But with a snatch block you have two runs of rope, so double the ropes rating.