Warn M8000 reconditioned tips

Zorba said:
If it runs, I'd jump on it. I paid $300 for one that was similar, but had a new new generation remote. If it helps, here's the boring blow-by-blow of my going through it, installation, mistakes made, etc, etc:

[URL]https://www.doubleveil.net/jeep/twenty-four.htm[/URL]

It goes on for about 4 pages, just click "next" on the bottom of each page. The biggest thing was water had gotten under the powder coat and caused quite a bit of corrosion that had to be wire wheeled off and repainted - which is exhibit A of why powder coating isn't always the best finish for things that are going to be outdoors - particularly aluminum.
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Okay, so so walked through yours. You took every inch apart, I’m curious if this one will be anywhere close to this need of Resto.

I’m gonna look at the gray color combo, but I’m a huge fan of the Krylon Black, ha, and my TJ is kinda getting the whole blackout (Back in Black…or Metallica Black Album) whatever, and maybe all black would be cool too.

Thanks for the write up, I’ll be back on that page when I pull mine apart.
 
cpwolf said:
@Mike Z do you not have a sway bar?

I want to get a different winch plate, yours looks flat, and no sway bar there?

I also like with a flat one I could put the recover hooks there as well, there’s not enough room next to mine for the bolt next to hook ones I have.

Although I have locations on bumper, still want this hooks.


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Here are side and front pics of mine. The stock sway bar is gone. In its place is the SwayLOC.

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cpwolf said:
Okay, so so walked through yours. You took every inch apart, I’m curious if this one will be anywhere close to this need of Resto.

I’m gonna look at the gray color combo, but I’m a huge fan of the Krylon Black, ha, and my TJ is kinda getting the whole blackout (Back in Black…or Metallica Black Album) whatever, and maybe all black would be cool too.

Thanks for the write up, I’ll be back on that page when I pull mine apart.
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Who knows? You won't know unless you take it apart! As for color, flat black was easy to do, and easy to maintain - otherwise I might have painted it red.
 
My son got it, and said it doesn’t look crappy, just faded, so that’s a plus. Said it didn’t look all corroded on the outside, so that’s a start.

Now an excuse to got to Dallas and take him to Dinner, my wife will be up for that. He just graduated Texas Tech and momma thinks he’s still her little boy (probably is, ha).

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Zorba said:
Looks like its missing the solenoid mount. I found this one:

[URL]https://searchers.mybigcommerce.com/searchers-pro-winch-solenoid-mount/[/URL]

Thanx to the forum here. A much nicer way to mount them than stock WARN, IMHO.
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A word of caution if you are going with this solenoid mount.

I am utilizing this bracket and I am quite happy with it, but only after a fair amount of effort in making it fit correctly.

My Jeep was with @mrblaine as he was solving multiple issues with its drivability. I ordered the solenoid bracket from Searchers...the aluminum one.

It took three weeks for the bracket to show up to Blaine. What was delivered was the metal one. Additionally, it was too long and did not mount properly on my winch. Blaine had to cut the center of the bracket and remove some material and then weld it back together and prime and paint it. It is possible that I could be leaving out additional work he did to correct the size.
 
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If you email Warn they will send you all new stickers for the winch free.

Patti Ann

Patti Bradley | Customer Service

Warn Industries Inc. | 12900 SE Capps Road | Clackamas, OR 97015

Email | [email protected] | Phone 503-722-3248



This was the person I contacted. This way you can take all the old stickers off and repaint all you want without any worries. I've done this on 3 different winches. Good luck with it as you can NEVER go wrong with a Warn winch.
 
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Mike Z said:
A word of caution if you are going with this solenoid mount.

I am utilizing this bracket and I am quite happy with it, but only after a fair amount of effort in making it fit correctly.

My Jeep was with @mrblaine as he was solving multiple issues with its drivability. I ordered the solenoid bracket from Searchers...the aluminum one.

It took three weeks for the bracket to show up to Blaine. What was delivered was the metal one. Additionally, it was too long and did not mount properly on my winch. Blaine had to cut the center of the bracket and remove some material and then weld it back together and prime and paint it. It is possible that I could be leaving out additional work he did to correct the size.
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We took a bit out of one side to better center the holes for the solenoid pack.

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With one end touching-
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The other end barely touches

the screw head.
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And, to add insult to injury, they ran the plasma cutter too fast which puts a lot of draft on the sides of the slots.
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To do this correctly, they should eliminate the slot since the end caps have recessed areas and the slot is useless. They should slightly oversize the hole, supply AN washers for the heads of the cap screws and 1/4" longer cap screws with a 5/16-18 tap. The tie bars need to be threaded with a tap instead of a self tapping screw like Warn used. The Warn fasteners are barely long enough to hold so longer ones with a good tap are never a bad idea.
 
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mrblaine said:
We took a bit out of one side to better center the holes for the solenoid pack.

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With one end touching-
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The other end barely touches

the screw head.
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And, to add insult to injury, they ran the plasma cutter too fast which puts a lot of draft on the sides of the slots.
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To do this correctly, they should eliminate the slot since the end caps have recessed areas and the slot is useless. They should slightly oversize the hole, supply AN washers for the heads of the cap screws and 1/4" longer cap screws with a 5/16-18 tap. The tie bars need to be threaded with a tap instead of a self tapping screw like Warn used. The Warn fasteners are barely long enough to hold so longer ones with a good tap are never a bad idea.
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All of these searchers brackets come this way, or was this a 1 off they’ve corrected? Seems immensely annoying they’d make a bracket specially for this, but it not fit, although that’s a too common occurrence.
 
mrblaine said:
We took a bit out of one side to better center the holes for the solenoid pack.

View attachment 398601

With one end touching-
View attachment 398607

The other end barely touches

the screw head.
View attachment 398608

And, to add insult to injury, they ran the plasma cutter too fast which puts a lot of draft on the sides of the slots.
View attachment 398610

To do this correctly, they should eliminate the slot since the end caps have recessed areas and the slot is useless. They should slightly oversize the hole, supply AN washers for the heads of the cap screws and 1/4" longer cap screws with a 5/16-18 tap. The tie bars need to be threaded with a tap instead of a self tapping screw like Warn used. The Warn fasteners are barely long enough to hold so longer ones with a good tap are never a bad idea.
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Oh, someone mentioned here thag WRG is going to have synthetic lines to replace when I build rebuild this, are those still in the future WRG plan?
 
cpwolf said:
All of these searchers brackets come this way, or was this a 1 off they’ve corrected? Seems immensely annoying they’d make a bracket specially for this, but it not fit, although that’s a too common occurrence.
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You do understand that I have no way to know that answer. I didn't buy the mount. Someone else bought it, put up with their terrible shipping lead time and then I got to deal with the wrong product that was not what was ordered. I fixed it in the interest of time and getting done. Normally I would have sent it back, thrown it away, or put it on the shelf of shame next to the other screwed up examples of stuff that really shouldn't be this hard to make.

Mike did his part, I did mine, the only folks who didn't are the folks that made the mount. They did send out the correct part in aluminum. It was offered to me, I wanted nothing to do with it.

edit- I also fixed it because I suggested it. I had no experience with them, but I didn't want to make one from scratch out of steel. I was highly mistaken and did my best to fix my mistake.
 
As Blaine said, he corrected multiple issues with the bracket, which I was grateful for since this was one of the last items he was addressing on my Jeep prior to it shipping back home to me.

My guess is that this was not a one off. The aluminum bracket was eventually shipped to me at no cost, but when it arrived, I measured it and it was also too long. I offered it to Blaine for free, but he had had enough of Searcher's brackets :)
 
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mrblaine said:
You do understand that I have no way to know that answer. I didn't buy the mount. Someone else bought it, put up with their terrible shipping lead time and then I got to deal with the wrong product that was not what was ordered. I fixed it in the interest of time and getting done. Normally I would have sent it back, thrown it away, or put it on the shelf of shame next to the other screwed up examples of stuff that really shouldn't be this hard to make.

Mike did his part, I did mine, the only folks who didn't are the folks that made the mount. They did send out the correct part in aluminum. It was offered to me, I wanted nothing to do with it.

edit- I also fixed it because I suggested it. I had no experience with them, but I didn't want to make one from scratch out of steel. I was highly mistaken and did my best to fix my mistake.
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this was your first experience, I didn’t know that. Got it, will plan accordingly here
 
mrblaine said:
On what planet do you think I am silly enough to deal with that crap twice?
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I didn’t mean you’d do it again, ha, just didn’t know that was your first experience until you posted it.

I am going to wait and get a WRG Line with safety thimble (and my TJ is black, and all the components black, so “black only” works well for me).
 
Mike Z said:
A word of caution if you are going with this solenoid mount.

I am utilizing this bracket and I am quite happy with it, but only after a fair amount of effort in making it fit correctly.

My Jeep was with @mrblaine as he was solving multiple issues with its drivability. I ordered the solenoid bracket from Searchers...the aluminum one.

It took three weeks for the bracket to show up to Blaine. What was delivered was the metal one. Additionally, it was too long and did not mount properly on my winch. Blaine had to cut the center of the bracket and remove some material and then weld it back together and prime and paint it. It is possible that I could be leaving out additional work he did to correct the size.
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This is correct. Mine's bowed up slightly. I think its because its a universal mount - works with other winches besides WARN:
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I had to ream out the mounting holes slightly too. I supposed one could stack a couple of washers under each side for a better fit.
 
Zorba said:
I still think its superior to anything else I've seen, but YMMV and all that.
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They claim it fits only Warn mid frame winches and they have the same dimensions so no reason they can not get it right. Makes no sense.
 
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