I have to take apart my Warn winch to replace the broken clutch lever. Does anyone know the type of grease i should use if i need to after opening housing? Having trouble finding info on Warn's site outside of the parts list
Type of grease to use for winch?
- Thread starter BigWheel88
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Aeroshell 64. On amazon for $25. It's expensive, I know. I used about half.
You could also try emailing Warn - they seem to be very responsive when I had questions on service parts when I was rebuilding my 9000i
You could also try emailing Warn - they seem to be very responsive when I had questions on service parts when I was rebuilding my 9000i
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Also look for Aeroshell Grease 33MS (not 33) as you might find some cheaper. Aeroshell 64 is the same grease, just a new name. 
The gears in a winch are not high speed, they do take a lot of pressure but they are not spinning at some crazy rpm. The research I have done recommends CV grease because it is light weight, heavy grease is not recommended due to it not staying put and tends to glob up and can actually make free spooling difficult or impossible. Having said all of that I just rebuilt/cleaned my new to me Warn X8000i and I used a light marine grease (due to it being less affected by water?). The winch works great since the rebuild. In my research it was stated a kazillion times that the tendency is to over grease things, the recommendations that I saw was to just use a brush (I used an acid type brush, the same disposable brush I use to spread wood glue when I build furniture) and just filled in the gear teeth the width of the brush (about 3/4") all the way around each gear. When I reassembled it and moved the gears through several revolutions the opposing meshed gear squeezed the grease over the entire width of the gear set and pushed some out the sides. This worked well for me, YMMV.