Prado 120 (07) winch rope

my son in law uses synthetic and swears my it. He has a landcrusier and used the winch several times. I personally have just switched to synthetic rope today so I cannot personally put in a review apart from the saving of 35kg off the frontend - wire rope and roller housing. Been advised by the 4x4 company I use that there are restrictions to using the rope such as do not use detergents to clean rope only clean water as detergent will affect the properties of the rope. How true this is I will certainly hear in the follow up discussions ahead. Will follow this with keen interest.

Just another question,

With the synthetic rope do you need to replace the roller fairlead with another type of fairlead.

I have added a link to an ebay seller as an example only. (selected randomly as this is the sort of thing I'm talking about).

Ebayer seller example

William

G`day William,

This is what I have on my winch but 5/8 not 3/4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcifJkhXpMM

Got it from Custom Splice in USA.

I have used it many times and recommend the product and the company.

Google is our friend.

Scrubby.

You determine the size rope by figuring out what weight load you want it to pull plus what length you want stored on the drum.
Asking what others have done is not clever as everyones setup is different.

Hi,

Just further to this thread, I have ordered a Dyneema rope and aluminium fairlead
from this eBay seller the dyneema shop

I though the orange colour might be more visible if I ever have to use it.
My roller fairlead wasn't in good condition so I decided on the alloy fairlead as well.

I also had a problem when I refitted the winch that it would only work in 1 direction. I removed the solenoids and found out 1 of the wires inside had broken.
I re-soldered it and tested it and it now works fine.
I have ordered another one.
Some jobs for me to do next week.

William