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How To Use Winch Without Remote: Can I Do It At Home?

Jun 02, 2021

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If you’re one of those who love to experience off-road thrills, winch is a must-have tool for you. A winch can help to get your car out of mud, holes, and even snow if it gets stuck.

A winch lets you stick your car with solid support and helps you get out of any kind of muddy or snowy area all by yourself. But what if you can’t use it when needed?

Well, this might be the case if you use a remote-controlled winch. If the remote’s battery runs out or it gets damaged, you’ve to remain stuck until help arrives.

But an alternate way to tackle this situation is to know about how to use winch without remote. Let’s begin…

How to Use Winch without Remote: Step by Step Guide


This step-by-step guide will help you operate your car winch if the remote’s battery runs out or the winch remote gets damaged.



Before starting, you should remember that, during the process, you’ve to deal with various tools that can lead to injury. So be very careful and use safety equipment. Also, turn off the vehicle and winch box before starting.

Step 1: Anchor Your Car with a Solid Object


The first step is to anchor your car with a solid object. After you’re done with anchoring, you need to unspool the winch. For anchoring your car, you can use big trees, big blocks, or even big boulders.

Step 2: Loosen Lever to Release Winch cable




If you look closely, you’ll find a lever on your winch’s body. Locate that. After that, you’ll see a label marked with “unspool”/ “disengage.” Now, grab the winch lever and push it toward the “disengage” part. This is done to spool out the winch cable from the winch box.

Step 3: Remove the Winch cable


Now you need to bring out the whole cable from the winch. While doing this task, make sure to wear a safety pair of gloves to keep your hands safe from the slid metal winch cables. Don’t spool out the full cable. Spare around 4-5 feet of the cable.

Step 4: Enclose the anchoring point with a cable strap




Now take a cable strap and wrap it around your car’s anchoring point. Make sure to keep the strap end toward your face.

Step 5: Connect the D-shackle and Winch Hook




Now you need to join the strap’s ending points with a D-Shackle. Now it’s your turn to use the winch hooks. Usually, the winch hooks come with winches. Check the tip of the winch to find them. Keep the tips face up after you connect the D-Shackle and winch hook.

Step 6: Engage Lever


Again find the lever on the winch. At this time, you need to set it in an “engage” position. Set the lever to this position so that there is no spooling out of cables anymore.

Step 7: Wiring the Winch


A winch can be used with both remote and wired modes. And here we’ll be talking about the second one. Here, we’ll perform the jump-start. This process is tricky. While doing the jump-start, the winch might get “ON” suddenly as it’ll get the power. So you need to be careful.

  • Disengage the battery’s positive end. Keep the grounded end as it is.

  • Mark and detach 3 wires that connect the controller and three motor ends.

  • You’ll see that there will be an “A,” “F1,” and “F2” label on the motor posts. Take a jumper wire (5-6 inches) and connect A and F1. Again, connect the battery and F2 motor post. This will result in a one-direction motion of the battery.

  • Again, take a jumper wire. This time, connect A and F2 and link battery and F1. This time you’ll see the opposite motion (running in the opposite direction) of the motor.


Step 8: Drive towards the Anchor


Now, use the winch and move your car in the direction of the anchoring point.

Step 9: Disassemble the Winch


After you take your car to a safe spot, you need to spool in the winch cable. Make sure that the winch cable doesn’t get any twist or tangle. For a better outcome, take the cable in your palm, and tell anyone to unspool simultaneously. This will help to keep the cable straight and prevent tangling.

Conclusion:


So that’s it when it comes to know about how to use winch without a remote. From now, if your winch remote gets lost or the battery runs out, you can still use the winch. Remember to strictly follow the safety precautions.

We bet that, if you follow the steps correctly, you can also succeed. But for compatibility and better usability, you should always carry the winch remote.

Comment below in case we missed anything or not. So thank you and Good luck!

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