Starting over: A lightweight Rock Crawling Daily Driver

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Got a deal on an xd9000i very much an impromptu purchase but I don’t regret it in the least bit
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@JMT how does this look? Is it still worthwhile to clean it all out and re pack it or leave it alone?

The grease looks good from what I can see. Take each of the gears out and look at all of it. If they need anymore grease you may just need to add some. This is what mine looked like. I don’t even think I added any grease.
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On the other end clean up the commutator.
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You know what they say, out with the new and in with the old, or something like that…

I have a similar coolant spatter on my hood that is way overdue to be cleaned off. Encourage you to attack it before it bakes in like mine did over thousands of miles... ;)

Winch looks like a great project! I'm hoping to pick up a cheap used option too in order to learn the winch internals. Feels like you area a better user when you know how/why it works.
 
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