The Rugged Ridge 8,500 pound heavy-duty winch is for those of you that have a 1987 and up
Wrangler, that are looking for an inexpensive and fairly basic winch for your Jeep that's
still going to get the job done.
These days there are winches with a lot of different features.
This is going to be more of a no-frills option, but it's also going to save you some money
over those other ones, so if that's what you're looking for, I think you've found it right
here.
Rugged Ridge also has their new Gen II line of winches that are going to be a waterproof
solenoid box, again, a lot of other features even from Rugged Ridge you can find, but those
are gonna be more expensive.
So, again, a little more basic, and a little bit less expensive.
This is going to be a very easy installation for anybody to do.
If you have a winch-ready bumper or a winch plate on your Jeep you're gonna be able to
bolt this right down.
Definitely a one out of three wrench installation, probably around an hour or so to get this
wired up and bolted up, but we'll talk more about that installation in just a second.
So, if you're looking for a winch for doing self-recoveries, you are out there on the
trail.
You should never go out by yourself, but even if you have a buddy, and you just want a winch
to make it easier for you to recover by attaching it to a tree, or your buddy's vehicle, or
help pull your buddy out when he gets high-centered or buried up to the axles in mud, whatever
the case may be, there are a lot of different uses for a self-recovery winch like this.
And if you're looking for one, there are a couple different decisions to make.
One is going to be the pulling capacity.
This is an 8,500 pound winch.
Now, the pulling capacity of your winch should be, roughly, 1.5 times the loaded trail weight
of your Jeep.
So, if you're talking about a heavy, four-door JK that you get buried all the way up to the
frame in mud all the time, you're probably gonna wanna go with something a little bit
beefier.
But if you have a light TJ, then the 8,500 pounds is going to be more than enough for
you.
The other decision you'll have to make is what type of cable you want on it, what type
of rope.
This comes with a steel cable, and that's going to be your basic.
That's what winches have come with for a very, very long time.
These are fairly maintenance-free, they're just going to work time in and time out.
Some winches have gone up to a synthetic line.
That synthetic line is going to be a little bit more expensive upfront, requires more
maintenance, and requires being swapped out more often.
However, what the synthetic line is going to do for you is, while it still stretches
like the steel cable does on your load, it doesn't store that energy, and if it were
to break, it falls harmlessly to the ground.
This steel cable, if it snaps, it is going to move.
It can maybe cause some additional damage or, if you're standing in the wrong spot,
it can cause an injury, so you do have to be a little bit more careful with the steel,
but that's not to say that there's anything wrong with it.
Saves you some money, is more maintenance-free, and as long as you take the proper precautions,
it's just fine, people have been using steel for years.
So, if you're looking for an 8,500 pound winch that's gonna be more than enough for your
vehicle, you want this steel line for your maintenance-free factor and to keep costs
down, I think that this is gonna be a really nice, inexpensive option.
Winches are going to really be a couple of different pieces that are working together.
Here, you have the winch body, and then you have the solenoid pack.
The solenoid pack is what's going to take the power from the battery and, depending
on what setting you have here, either in or out on the remote, is going to power the proper
side of the motor here in the actual winch body.
This is going to be a series-wound solenoid box, you're going to have a planetary gear
set in the winch box itself.
As with most winches you're gonna have a clutch here so you can engage and disengage, so you
can freespool and just pull line out if you need to.
So it's gonna have all of those more basic features for your winch.
What this isn't going to have is spots to mount additional lights.
It's not going to be a waterproof solenoid box.
It's not going to have a wireless remote for it.
It's not going to have what some of those top-of-the-line winches have like a air compressor
built into it, or any of those other features.
Like I said at the beginning, this is gonna be a more basic winch that's just gonna get
the job done, and it's gonna be less expensive than a lot of the other options.
If you want more frills, you want more options, we have those as well, even from Rugged Ridge
we have those.
But if you want something simple and to save some money, I think you're looking at the
right winch.
As for the installation, like I said before, you are going to need a winch-ready bumper
or a winch plate on your bumper, but if you have that, this is a one out of three wrench,
one hour installation.
These winches, for the most part, have a body that is small enough to fit in or on almost
any winch-ready bumper or winch plate, and the bolt pattern here for the feet is going
to be pretty standard as well.
You're gonna be able to first mount your fairlead, it's just a little harder to get to the bolts
once the winch itself is mounted.
So, you've got your fairlead, you can then mount the solenoid box right on top of the
winch.
You'll have a couple of connections to between the solenoid box and the winch itself, and
you can get your winch bolted down.
And finally, run your two longer cables back to your battery.
You can run those through the grille, under the grille, along the fender, however you
need to to get it to the battery to connect it to the positive and the negative terminals.
After that, in order to use the winch, you really just plug your remote into the solenoid
box.
You're gonna have two buttons on the top, one for in, one for out, and you're ready
to winch.
So, I mentioned before, this is going to be a less-expensive winch than some of the others
out there that have a lot more features.
This comes in right around $300, and that really is par for the course for a winch of
this pulling capacity with a steel cable, not synthetic line, and none of those other
features that we talked about.
None of those other add-ons that we had mentioned.
So, if you want something pretty basic, I do think that this is going to be a quality
option, and I think that $300 is going to be a fair price.
So, if you're looking for a simple and inexpensive winch, I definitely recommend taking a look
at this one from Rugged Ridge, and you can find it right here, at extremeterrain.com.
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