Dean2
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2021
- Posts
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- Location
- Near Edmonton
- Ram Year
- 2021 2500
- Engine
- 6.4
I have a Smitty Built 17,500 LB winch mounted on my 2500. Real nice looking winch, pulls great but it is a real bear to pull the line out in free wheel. It is so stiff that even in free wheel the electric motor will still reel in and out as long as there isn't much load on the cable. I have had lots of other HD winchs, mostly Warn but a couple of others as well. None of them behaved like this, once in free wheel the electric motor did nothing and they were pretty easy to free spool the line out. Wondering if this is a trait of the Smittybuilts or this one is defective. Either way I am going to replace it becasue I really don't like the way it operates in free spool.