Winch Ratchet Repair Kit by Dutton-Lainson

Video Transcript for Dutton-Lainson Winch Ratchet Repair Kit Review

Randy: Hey guys! Randy here at etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Rebuild Kit for the catch. This is going to be Dutton-Lainson hand winches; the 600, 900, 1100, and 1300 model. Essentially, these get used in tons of different situations, tons of different atmospheres or conditions, weather-wise and sometimes you just get to a point to where this just gives out on you. Most commonly, the failure's going to be either the spring that has broken, or, if it's used for extended periods of time, this little catch right here will wear down enough to where it doesn't really hold properly. In a lot of situations, these are going to be bolted on to what you're using so you could take it off and put a new one on.

It's a little bit more pricey than just getting the Rebuild Kit, though, so we're going to take you through the process on how to do this and how to, kind of, revamp your winch, get it back in operational so you don't have to go through all that.You're going to need a couple simple tools. A couple of 11-millimeter wrenches. I've got a socket and a wrench. And we may also need a pair of needle nose here just to work our spring into the correct place. But to start, we're going to take out the bolt.

You can see our handle's right here. We're going to take out the bolt located just below it. It's going to be right here. There's a locking nut on the inside, then we'll use out socket here to loosen up the bolt and once we get it to a point there where it's loosened up, you'll see that spring kind of pushes everything over and it takes the tension off so we don't really have to worry about it popping out or snapping out of there or anything.And what we're going to have is going to be our bolt, going to have our spring, it's going to be a spacer. This is also a really good idea to change that.

Our locking lever and our lock nut. Definitely want to change the lock nut as well. I would put everything back in fresh rather than kind of piece-mailing it together. By doing that, you'll have a couple of replacement parts, maybe a couple of parts that you didn't need to use.Regardless of what your plan is, though, it goes together really simply. We'll take out bolt, we're going to place that back through slightly and we've got our spacer.

We want the smaller end to be facing the middle of our winch. See, just like that. This part's going to fit over our spacer. Kind of see how that goes, but our spring needs to go in the middle there.Then, when we place the spring in, it's important that the . see, this is a slightly narrower here to that catch than it is here. We want this to be on the winch side and we want this to be on our lever side. It's going to be positioned right there.Once that's slid in, we need to get our nut in place and then as we tighten that down, it's going to compress it for us. Just kind of use our needle nose to make sure that stays in the correct position for us and once we've got that tightened back down, just want to ensure that good, positive engagement and that as we crank our handle there, that it engages each of the teeth properly. At that point, you've got it rebuilt and you can put it back in service.