Tabor 12K Drum Support Fix

[mostheman]

I picked up a 12K Tabor a couple years ago with the tie rod supports broken due to incorrectly spooling the line on the drum.



I picked up a Drum Support kit, Tie Rod kit and a couple new seals. Also grabbed a warn style clutch lever as opposed to the tabor one which is hard to turn by times.

Take out the 2 bolts a the end of the motor housing.


Pull the motor off the drum support piece



Set motor aside



Take the Allen head bolts out of the ends of the 2 tie rods. You can see mine are all scabbed up from the line rubbing on them



Go to the other end of the winch and take out the 10 Allen head bolts.



Separate the drum support from the planetary end of the winch.



Check the planetaries, the grease looked good so I never went much further, applied some more grease to the end gear and to the bushing the drum runs on.

Warn recommends grease with moly disulfide this stuff has the most moly I could find here in Truro.



Heres is the new grease on the planetaries.



Clean the mating surface and put on the new seal.



Put the new drum support on and put back in the 10 Allen head bolts.

Heres something to note. The ends of the winch can be clocked if necessary to better locate the clutch lever or the terminals. I'm gonna have to clock the clutch lever end on the heepota as I'm gonna mount the feet forward.



Grease the bushing the drum bears on, and make sure the little gear the drum engages on is aligned correctly.



Clean the old grease off the end of the drum, grease it up and slide it on





Heres the other end of the drum and the brake in the center of the bore.



I frigged up and it came apart so I took it out to re install



its 4 pieces, 2 spring looking thingies and 2 sets of fingers one of which engages with the shaft that runs through the drum the other engages with the drive motor.



Slide the brake assembly back into the drum and locate it on the end of the rod.

Grease up the other Drum support end and set it on the end of the drum



The tie rods are just alu. tube, they send you self tapping bolts so I run the bolt in and out on the vise before installing them.



Then installed them on the winch.




Then reinstall the drive motor.

Clutch Lever swap.
The only thing that holds the clutch lever in is a small Allen bolt.



Take out the bolt and the lever comes out. Put the new gasket on the new lever and install.



Now I have a basically new winch.

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This was wicked easy to do and all you need is a couple Allen keys, wrench set and a flat head screwdriver.

All in all it took about 1.5 hours to complete.

Mo

[90bronco]

Nice detailed write up Mo ,i should take my 9k tabor apart and check the grease as it looks pretty basic and switch out the leaver's.

Where did you get you're seals and parts from and what was the price?

['Roach]

Excellent. Still thinking I might do the lever swap, but I looked and I think I'd have to cut away a bunch more grille to make it work

[mostheman]

Drum support kit came from Drive Products and the Tie Rods, lever and seal came from Rue.

[4X4PLAY]

Nice job Mo...that was a common breakage on those models, I've seen it happen once or twice...


Jeff

[mostheman]

Yeah the plates arn't too expensive and are easy to install. Get them through either Drive Products, Rue or Tracy. Its good to know that it doesn't write off the winch when it hasppens.

[gettinwiggy]

I wonder if they sell them for Warn M8000's? How much were the plates?? Can you just buy one side??

(PM if you'd rather not post here)

[90bronco]

Yes they would , they are the warren dealer.

[mostheman]

They come as a pair for around $100 an hour or so to replace just the one.

[gettinwiggy]

Just got around to calling them...................(5) weeks!!!!!

Unless I want to special order and pay the freight/brokerage..........NOPE.............that doubled the price!

Oh well..................guess it is a waiting game! ;D

[mostheman]

Sell you my winch for 600 plus yours as a core charge......

[gettinwiggy]

No thanks!

[dennis461]

I understand this is an old post, but I need help.
I have a Tabor 9k over ten years old.
My brake broke...
By looking at this post I can almost figure out how to reassemble the brake pieces (2 drums, 2 springs).
Apparently the 12K and 9K have some similarities

Can someone post more pics or walk me through this? The two drums have slots cut in them that appear to be the right place to hold the spring tabs.
Is this incorrect?

[mostheman]

I remember it was quite a task to get the springs engaged and the fingers of the side plates past each other enough to get it to go back together. If I remember right I chamfered the edges of the fingers to allow me to get them started......its been a while, those are all the pictures I have.