hello to all my fellow jeepers!
i have a bit of a problem. i have a rugged ridge 10500 winch with the synthetic line and the daystar rubber fairleads exchanged with the rugged ridge fairlead. so i got to use my awesome winch out helping some other fellow people and yes myself getting out of a sticky situation. its the first time i really got to use my new winch well when i was winching out the line starting tearing through my fairleads there brand new is there a flaw with it or something has anyone else experienced this or am i doing something wrong. im about to get ahold of the daystar people to see if i can get this replaced . could the cold have something to do with this its around 8 to 35 degrees right now? well any help or advise would be awesome and thank you in advance.

 

Ummm, I do not know what you are using, but I believe you should be using what is called a hawse fairlead for synthetic line, like these.

A traditional fairlead can mangle your expensive synthetic line.

 

If you need a Hawse the Off Road Evo one is the best looking in my opinion.

If you want to use a traditional fairlead with Synthetic you can change out the metal rollers for plastic and they are perfect.

 

I don't know what hew means by rubber fairlead? I have only seen metal ones and it sounds like he has two. One from Daystar and one from RR? How can you have two?

 

I think by the sounds of his post he has the rubber or plastic rollers in his RR fairlead

 

I guess that is why I bought the EVO Hawse for mine.

 

im sorry i have the RR fairleads that i put on the daystar rubber or plastic ones designed for synthetis line, im sorry for any confusion. i have one of the hawse fairleads that i didnt care for so i decided to upgrade it with the daystar ones
heres a pic of my jeep with them hope this helps

 

the line was basically cutting right into it like butter idk if its spinning right or what but if anyone out there has experienced this or knows what i need to do to fix it or a trick would be awesome. i really would prefer to not use the hause type fairlead seen how i have this one.

 

Viking has some rollers made of Delrin instead of the Polyurethane used by DayStar.

 

thank you for the reply have you used them before? do you know if there stronger? thank you for letting me know that but idk if i want to waste the money if there just going to do the same thing. i kida feel like im doing something wrong or just not maintaining them right or something. is there anyone that has used these that has maybe had the same issue or knows what im doing wrong