Got my Warn 8274 home

John Cooper said:
Got the wire rope off and getting ready to start cleaning it up and shining it up.


Going to get a new plug and remote, clean, service and install hopefully before summer.
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I wasn't looking but one popped up 300 miles away for $1200 in "great condition". Looks to be good in pictures.
I have no clue what they're worth. And I don't really have a need for one.
Also offering NIB CJ7 mounting plate for $300 extra.
 
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NOTNSUV said:
I wasn't looking but one popped up 300 miles away for $1200 in "great condition". Looks to be good in pictures.
I have no clue what they're worth. And I don't really have a need for one.
Also offering NIB CJ7 mounting plate for $300 extra.
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Unfortunately this seems to be a pretty standard price anymore. Used to pick them up for $300 all the time but not anymore.
There's a gentleman selling a few in the Spokane area for $800 but that's a little far from you.
 
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Can still find for 550 and 600 around here, from time to time, have to watch and be quick. Do not pay that much for one.

Will sell you one of mine before you do that. Keep looking and be patient. Doug

Roger Sorry, was too quick to react. Do see them listed all the time for about $1000, but do not seem to sell. Last one I bought was listed for $1000 and talked with him and offered $550. After a bit he decided to sell, might have been my great personality !! Right.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...place_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

1981, Is in good shape. Still not worth $1200 (to me). I could be wrong.
 
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tnjeepguy said:
Can still find for 550 and 600 around here, from time to time, have to watch and be quick. Do not pay that much for one.

Will sell you one of mine before you do that. Keep looking and be patient. Doug
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Good to know.

I have no need for one. Was just commenting that I'd found one accidentally and shot out the price to see how the market is.
 
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tnjeepguy said:
Can still find for 550 and 600 around here, from time to time, have to watch and be quick. Do not pay that much for one.

Will sell you one of mine before you do that. Keep looking and be patient. Doug

Roger Sorry, was too quick to react. Do see them listed all the time for about $1000, but do not seem to sell. Last one I bought was listed for $1000 and talked with him and offered $550. After a bit he decided to sell, might have been my great personality !! Right.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...place_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

1981, Is in good shape. Still not worth $1200 (to me). I could be wrong.
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Yup, that's the one across the state from me.
 
Mrholland said:
Congrats!! Greatest winch ever made!
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We need a section on here for all the things this silly winch needs to actually make it something worthwhile. I fully recognize they have a highly enthusiastic cult following, but holy crap are they designed poorly.

I'm working one over purely as an exercise in something to do out of my normal stuff, at no point in time should there be an easy way for water to get into the drum support cover and ruin the end of the drum.
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The consequence of that is instead of the drum turning inside the flange bearing, it turns the bearing which then spins inside the bore in the drum support and ruins that. What a terrible design.
 
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tnjeepguy said:
https://gigglepin4x4.net/winch-upgrades-137-c.asp

There are lots of upgrades for the 8274. Basic 1970's tech. They need regular maintenance like anything mechanical. (agree some parts could be better !!)
Wish most things worked as well as my 8274.
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This winch has stupid low use. The damage it has isn't so much lack of maintenance as it is a poor design, that and Warn let the molds go to shit. This one has the raised ribs so worn in the mold that they are too close to the surrounding casting to brush them out for that signature look. You can't brush them without getting into the surrounding bits of the top cover.

Here is an indicator of how much use it has.
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astjp2 said:
It’s hard to upgrade castings without making new.
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Making new castings or making new molds? They let the molds get out of shape so that one of the key elements of the winch design was highly compromised. The two feet that butt up against the winch mount should be flat and square to the perpendicular axis of the drum.

This guy had the same problem. Screen shot from his video.
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He milled it off flat. The problem with that is you have to go to the drum support, set the drum up in both on new bearings and then square the drum to the face of the mount or it runs off angle.

astjp2 said:
I wish someone could cnc a bearing housing for the non drive side for a sealed bearing.
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I've seen drum supports in billet from several folks. Guessing none of them use a sealed bearing?
 
mrblaine said:
Making new castings or making new molds? They let the molds get out of shape so that one of the key elements of the winch design was highly compromised. The two feet that butt up against the winch mount should be flat and square to the perpendicular axis of the drum.

This guy had the same problem. Screen shot from his video.
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He milled it off flat. The problem with that is you have to go to the drum support, set the drum up in both on new bearings and then square the drum to the face of the mount or it runs off angle.



I've seen drum supports in billet from several folks. Guessing none of them use a sealed bearing?
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Agreed, I and I mean new molds.
 
mrblaine said:
Making new castings or making new molds? They let the molds get out of shape so that one of the key elements of the winch design was highly compromised. The two feet that butt up against the winch mount should be flat and square to the perpendicular axis of the drum.

This guy had the same problem. Screen shot from his video.
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He milled it off flat. The problem with that is you have to go to the drum support, set the drum up in both on new bearings and then square the drum to the face of the mount or it runs off angle.



I've seen drum supports in billet from several folks. Guessing none of them use a sealed bearing?
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They maybe available for the Gigglepin guys but nothing in the market.
 
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