2007 RAM 2500 Power Wagon, Factory Winch Rebuild?

[Milkeeway]

I recently purchased a 2007 Ram 2500 Power Wagon. The wiring on the winch is pretty corroded and I think may be what is causing issues with its operation.

It was sparking/arcing, off the cable and rear bars on the winch body. I’ve since completely disconnected and tucked the cables away. My plan was to drop the winch and replace the cables/terminals. The winch would run for a second and then stop, I’m thinking that was the low voltage stop possibly? Could have been due to the corroded/bad connection to the battery.

I can’t move it into free spool so it took hours to get it to unspool. The factory cable was shot, the bolt holding the cable is stripped, had to angle grind the cable to cut it off since there was no way I was going to spool it back up.

It doesn’t look like it’s ever been serviced, or really taken care of at all.

If I’m going through the trouble of dropping it off the truck, I figure I want to do whatever I can to replace/rebuild as much of it as possible so it’s running reliably if and when I need it.

1) Is there a parts list or rebuild kit I can buy?

2) If rebuilding isn’t the answer, is there an off the shelf winch that bolts up?

3) Do you have a cable replacement recommendation? (Assuming I can get this rusted stripped bolt out)

[RustyPW]

There is no direct replacement for the PW winch, as it runs backwards from a normal winch. The closest winch to it is the Warn M1500. They share the same parts. Most of the problems is the plug in for the controller. The plug corrodes and the wires fall off the back of it. Pack it with de electrical grease. The other problems are the relays. Corrosion most of the time. With winch line. You'll get a bunch of different answers.

[Retired BLM Rig]

Here a link to a PDF file from the factory service manual that I found on DodgeTalk. It has some good illustrations and diagnostic procedure. Sorry no parts list: https://www.dodgetalk.com/attachments/c ... df.236516/

Good luck with your project!

[jeep_boy02]

Any off the shelf winch will work as a replacement. All you gotta do is flip it over and run it in a face mount as opposed to foot mount. I've been running my VR 12k in the stock cradle for almost 10 yrs now.

Face mounts are stronger anyhow and I even incorporate the factory cradle in my bumper builds as I like the triangulation in them for side loads.

needing to do more mods and fab