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Old Mar 19, 2017 | 06:52 AM
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Angry winch is a smoking....
Have a Rugged Ridge 8500 winch had to replace solenoid plug, went to try it skinny neg ground wire started smoking got real hot..No clue why????
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Old Mar 19, 2017 | 07:45 AM
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Yea mines doing the same. I think it may be a grounding issue. Idk maybe to much corrosion or something. Still haven't fixed it
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Old Mar 20, 2017 | 05:38 AM
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Yeah mine was shorting out under cover on solenoid .....
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Old Mar 21, 2017 | 05:49 AM
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Sounds like the ground back to the battery is bad, or something on the hot side is touching the case when you are trying to winch in or out.

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Old Mar 21, 2017 | 06:21 AM
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Yeah cover was pushing wire down on solenoid on little spot to short it out...
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