toyota electric winch oil?

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:21 pm

Hi guys. I just bought a toyota original electric winch, but I want to change the oil and don't know what to put in it, ps is there a way to find out what the pull rate of this winch is, it just has a serial number and 'toyota' nothing else....help me out please!

Jungle · Post by **Jungle** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:49 pm

I've got the full toyota manual for the 24v winch. We went through the other day and it didn't say what oil we should run. I know that your supposed to soak the clutch plates in Auto trans fluid when working on the winch. I'm just running gearbox oil in my one. I'll ask around.

Jungle

Jungle · Post by **Jungle** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:10 pm

is that what you bought.

Jungle

Jungle · Post by **Jungle** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:19 pm

Yep. About 2litres of ATF according to the book. Might go buy some.

Jungle

1UZFJ40 · Post by **1UZFJ40** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:56 pm

i asked the same question to the tech guys at Man-A-Fre in the states, and he said gear oil, but to confuse things someone was advertising on ebay special oil to suit winches, said something about particuliar type of metal bushes in the guts, sounded a little fishy to me .
i guess gear oil or lite gear oil, and changing it regularly is the trick.

or just dont get stuck and dont use the winch ever... simple. hehehe