The winch on the sand spider has 2 relays in it one for out and in, I recently sunk my machine in some soupy muskeg and burnt out a relay,

The hard thing is finding internal parts for it, the relay is made in china and doesnt seem to cross reference to anything, Joyner has the winch but not internal winch parts, the winch doesnt even have a brand name on it so I cant even look that way,

I am wondering if anyone else has had to change these and if so what did you use?

It is a Yishen LCARH-1C-12D relay,

Thanks

I had the same issue, but I just changed out the whole wench for a better one since the stock one doesnt work very well. Sorry I cant help.

I agree this this a good time to upgrade the winch. I have to double-line mine when I really get stuck to get enough pull.

The winch does work pretty hard and usually I have to be spinning tires and winching to get out of places, the relay would be a cheaper fix though,

What size and brand of winchs did you go with? I think the stock one is 2000lb with a 25' cable,

I am thinking at least a 3000lb with ~50' cable, sometimes you have to run a longs ways to find a decent tree, a whole switch change is worth half as a new winch so a new one might be better,

I went with a 2000lb 50' cable, but I went with a Warn brand winch and the difference is amazing. it pulls at least three times as hard. It cost quite a bit more, but if you really need a winch to get you out, you dont need a weak POS, you need one that will hang the buggy from a tree if necessary.

Harbor Freight always has 5000-8000 lb winches on sale. They are heavy but are inexpensive and have large capacity reels. You would need to measure the available space to see what you could fit. When looking at these winches, assume that the real ratings are half of what is published.

Hey Dark,

Im probably going to be pulling mine off and selling it on Ebay or whomever needs it. I need to check if its working or not because I've never had to use it. To tell you frankly, I dont even know how to use it. PM me and let me know, I live in So. Calif so not sure what shipping will cost.