Any Ramsey owners here?

[JeeperG]

Just curious if any other Ramsey owners here have had problems with there winches? Mine is a QM 8000 but is attached to a winch plate on the front bumper. I am not sure but thinking the vibrations of my jeep such as the motor vibes, it is breaking the straps inside the winch, I have replaced every one of them in the damn thing and they continue to break.

All I gotta say is I am not happy with the winch and am GLAD I didn't pay for it won it at one of the LHM-mepco jeep shows.

JeeperG

 

[MattL]

All I gotta say is I am not happy with the winch and am GLAD I didn't pay for it won it at one of the LHM-mepco jeep shows.

JeeperG

If your not happy with it cause it keeps breaking.. what happens when it is time to use it when there is an emergency and it breaks or is broken. A free winch isnt worth nothing then...

i havent heard too much good about the ramsey.. but its been awhile when i was asking. maybe times have changed.

just ranting..

 

[JeeperG]

Well yea that is part of the problem when I do need it, it does not work. I may be able to fabricate my own straps that are a little thicker and that will probably fix the problem. Unless Ramsey makes a thicker strap but I doubt it.

If I had paid for it I would be more pissed about it also.

JeeperG

 

[gtidrivr]

If I act like I know what your talking about, it seems like they are copper plates? Why not make some small style battery cables out of like a 4ga wire and cable ends so they are not hard mounted? My $.02.

If you need some parts I can hook you up. Just let me know.

 

[JeeperG]

YES thats EXACTLY what they are and they are so frail the vibrations are breaking them.
(only guessing on vibrations because after I replaced them all I did not hook it up to the battery, the day I did cause I needed it, did not work, opened it up and BAM broken strap.)

JeeperG.

 

[JeeperG]

And another Vibration Theory is: Anyone running MORE bombproof motor mounts they pretty much resonate into any and everthing associated with the frame so even my steering wheel vibrates more. In turn my winch plate is hooked to the frame, the winch is on the winchplate and inside the winch are thin pieces of copper connecting the selanoides and vibrations on the copper is picking up the noise and bending it back and forth a few times. SNAP

Always near the nut and washer too.

JeeperG

 

[MattL]

the price you have to pay with those motor mounts.

I ran them in my cherokee.. went from 3 broken motor mounts to none ever again.. to me it was worth it.. kinda of the topic.. but oh well..

 

[Medsker]

I've been ruuning my Ramsey 8000 for about 10 years and have never had a problem with it. It's worked every time I've used it.

Medsker

 

[RockMonkey]

You guys knew I'd reply to this one, didn't you?

Yep, I'm a Ramsey winch owner. It's sitting way up on the high shelf in the corner of the garage collecting dust. Seems it's the only thing it does well. Luckily mine was free too. Not even worth carrying around on the front of the Jeep cause the stupid thing never worked when you needed it. Too many problems to list. Basically they're just big heavy turds. Medsker, if I were you I'd be driving to Idaho to pick up some lottery tickets, cuz you're one lucky dude. A few years ago I stuck a Warn HS9500i where the Ramsey turd once was, and that thing has worked perfectly every single time I've wanted to use it. I've used it many many times, and have never been disappointed. I've been through that cycle of fixing the turd winch, making it work, and then having it fail again, then fixing it again, etc... It's not worth it. Go pick up something that says WARN on it and all your winch problems will be solved.

 

[gtidrivr]

Hum... I have a Ramsey and it works whenever I want it to, so far.

 

[B-RAD]

I ran a ramsey pro 9000 for years never any problems other then slow it is a great winch. I hung a CJ 5 off the front of my Jeep straight line pull. did not hurt the winch but was hard on my front springs. That pro 9000 is on the front of Jinx CJ8. I run a new Warn 9500ti now. the only reason I changed was line speed

 

[JeeperG]

Someone told me a week or so ago that they did research on winches and found out that Ramsey, Milemarker and Harbor Freight winches were all the same winches. Any truth to that?

JeeperG

 

[MR.CJ-7]

I've been ruuning my Ramsey 8000 for about 10 years and have never had a problem with it. It's worked every time I've used it.

Medsker

Same experience for me. Granted I'm not a hardcore wheeler and don't use it often, but my Ramsey works well for me. It is mounted on a winch plate on my front frame area on my CJ.

 

[Caleb]

Someone told me a week or so ago that they did research on winches and found out that Ramsey, Milemarker and Harbor Freight winches were all the same winches. Any truth to that?

JeeperG

I dont know about the MM but the Harbor freight 8K looks like a rebadged Ramsey REP8000...I have heard they are indeed rebaged but no hard facts...the ramsey last about as long as the HF so I wouldn;t doubt it...

I just dont see why anyone would buy a Ramsey when you can get a Warn 8k for $499...

 

[OCNORB]

My bro' has one he bought at Mepco about 10 years ago and it is one dangerous piece of (*&IT. It has been back to Ramsey a half dozen times to be fixed and still isn't right. It randomly releases the load as your using it. I am surprised that someone hasn't sued them out of business yet! He still runs it, as it will get you out of a fix, but I would never run one. (Unless it was free, maybe) I bought a Warn and love it. I have abused it and it just shrugs it off. Oh, well my .02