WTB: Hawse fairlead

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It is not ideal to use synthetic line with an iron hawse and even less ideal to use an aluminum one with wire rope.
And about as bad to use the Cast Aluminum Warn Hawse with synthetic. WTF? you had one job? How do you screw that one up?
 
Well. I'm planning to use synthetic line. Getting rid of the roller and steel cable.
 
And about as bad to use the Cast Aluminum Warn Hawse with synthetic. WTF? you had one job? How do you screw that one up?
Just like changing their synthetic rope to what they use now. All about saving that dollar.
 
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And about as bad to use the Cast Aluminum Warn Hawse with synthetic. WTF? you had one job? How do you screw that one up?

I'd love to hear more about this. I have a Warn fairlead in my parts box that I've been meaning to install as soon as I can get to the hardware store for longer bolts (it's thicker than the smittybilt one I have on it now). Don't know anything about it, it came with a winch my cousin bought 3 years ago and he didn't need it.

Surely it's not as simple as they cast a fairlead and left a cast finish where the rope rides.... Right?
 
I'd love to hear more about this. I have a Warn fairlead in my parts box that I've been meaning to install as soon as I can get to the hardware store for longer bolts (it's thicker than the smittybilt one I have on it now). Don't know anything about it, it came with a winch my cousin bought 3 years ago and he didn't need it.

Surely it's not as simple as they cast a fairlead and left a cast finish where the rope rides.... Right?

No, it is polished but something is wrong with the base metal. Everyone we've seen that has been used melts the rope in the corners, bits of rope stick to the fairlead and then that gets worse and worse.
 
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