2010 Dodge Ram 1500 Regular Cab Owner Manual - Page 377
2010 Dodge Ram 1500 Regular Cab Manual
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STARTING AND OPERATING 375 For additional assistance, the winched vehicle can be NOTE: slowly driven while being pulled by the winch. Continue • Avoid overheating the winch motor. For extended winching, stop at reasonable intervals to allow the pulling until the vehicle is on stable ground. If you are winch motor to cool down. able to drive the vehicle, the winching operation is complete. • What to look for under load: The wire rope must always spool onto the drum as indicated by the drum rotation decal on the winch. As you power-in, make sure the wire rope winds evenly and tightly on the drum. This prevents the outer wire wraps from drawing into the inner wraps, binding and damaging the wire rope. Avoid shock loads by using the control switch intermittently to take up wire rope slack. Shock loads can momentarily far exceed the winch and wire rope ratings. During side pulls the wire rope tends to stack up at one end of the drum. This stack can become large enough to cause serious damage to the winch. So, line up pulls as straight ahead as possible and stop Using The Remote Control winching if the wire rope comes close to the tie rods or mounting plate. To fix an uneven stack, spool out that 5