seems a bit strange, but i have never got myself into that situation ...
i have never tried to move the lever when the cable is under tension ...
i see your point though ..
hope someone else with more experience of the 404 winch can fill in!
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Gena - 5/17/2005 10:45 AM
Hm... But what you do when your cable under tension and you need deattach it. In all whinches that i used (electric: warn, ramsey, mechanic: toyota, GAZ66 ) it is imposible turn "engaged/disengaged" lever when cable UNDER TENSION. You have to winch out little bit to make posible lever switching. Situation when you need deattach cable happend quite offen.
For example: You need pull your truck through long deep mud. You attch cable to the tree and start winching. Then, when your spool full of cable You need reattach cable to another tree. You truck cannot run forward by wheels because mud. Tree cannot go to truck :). So you have only one way relax cable - winch out.
I saw that situation many times on offroad trophy, when electrical winches has malfunction control. (can winch only in one direction)
So it is very important to have posibility relax tension of the cable. And it is very interesting what unimog's engineers did for it. May be you can operate with "engaged/disengaged" lever when cable under tension?
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