That lever on the winch?

[johnny rezny]

Getting all the small stuff done. Desided to pull the winch cabel all the way out and clean and grease it and that lever is suppose to be an engage and dissigage lever but mine winch works with the lever in ether position? whats up?

[moosejr]

I would guess that the drive is dragging or the lever is not fully disengaging the drive because it locks slots onto pins for the drive. If there is a lot of gunk buildup and no load on the cable, . .it might feel like it is moving far enough to engage/disengage, when it isn't. . .

[503m715]

It sounds like the set screw in the shift fork backed out, or shift fork was installed flipped. If flipped, see if you can go past hole in plate below handle. Mine would disengage then. The thing that stinks is that you have pull the winch to fix.

[Doug]

Shift forks are bent easily also, infrequent use, then an over zealous smack to get the lever moving again is all it takes.