Great job wiring up the winch George. Your shop not only looks great it has some great additional tools to hand.

you made this video 4 years ago and its still helping out, thanks for making this video

Thanks for the great video George. It is one of the best explanations on KZread!! Simple but perfect!!!

Good to the point video. I have my solenoid on order to put on my 2000 WARN winch that I got for free. I got a Harbor Freight remote with a plug on the end but will do the wiring set up like yours. I saw one video if you use a large band clamp you can attach the solenoid to the winch to have it all together. I plan on using it to help run my 12 boat up in my truck bed when I got fishing. I do have a rack for the truck but going to make my own self loading setup with it later this year. Need to do some welding and mods to make it work but pretty much have what I need on that project.

Thank you very much! Excellent instructions.

Not only was this informative,it was very uplifting.

Really nice that you got it working, good info George, :)

Great viedo George very informative thanks for sharing it with us

she is very welcome for the knife, we don't eat bagels but I like it for slicing tomatoes. I use my little winch to drag stuff up on my trailer, I don't know if you saw any of my Wisconsin engine videos but I used the winch to drag all of them up on my trailer, that big 4 cylinder is very heavy, and it sure saved me a lot of work, in fact, with out it I couldn't have done that. I have a big piece of inner tube covering my winch because it's outside all the time.

Im glad you were able to get that lift out of the weather.

That is a good fix for your winch. One of those work platforms would be handy here.

Neat set up. Now you need a block outside so the winch can pull it back outside

George I'm always thinking ahead of how i can still do things as my health fails me. For example my engine run test stand; how to install & remove the motor by myself safely. At HF i picked up a Hyd. adjustabe cart rated @ 1000lb. I'm using it now to build the front bus beam. I got some small channel steel to weld on the top farme of the run test stand and now need some steel to build a removable ramp to roll the cart up on the run test stand. I then was thinking about a small HF winch with a remote where it will pull the cart and motor up the ramp and lower it. Sounds a bit over the top , but my balance is not very good and just seems like it would be a safe method for me. George i have around 5 or 6 to vw motors to build & run test at this time. Plus I been asked rebuild some VW motors for a few friends after I finished my motors. ( Cool retirement projects )

Good video George.

Good one George !!

What a handy thing to have. 👍

I have a HF winch on the front of my Polaris Ranger it's been a good one

I'm planning on doing something very similar with my lift. At 72 the big bikes are getting too heavy for me to push up onto the lift.and some of them get a little squirrely trying to motor them up.

I have the same set up however it only works in one direction, if I switch the yellow and white wires then it works in the opposite direction, is it likely a fault with the solenoid or the receiver?

With having that wired right to the battery will it still pull power when not in use and make the battery go dead after some time ?