Originally posted by j30521:
I need to replace my OEM Barient 27 Self-Tailing winches (because of "scored" mainshfts and drums) and I would like to know what active racers in the Chesapeake and LIS areas have done when they had to make this move. The old Barients had a 48:1 power ratio in 2nd gear and I am interested what the consensus is as it concerns that number being "overkill" or "adequate". I really liked the Barients but refurbishment looks impossible.
I took my old winches to a good machine shop and we rebuilt them. They were scored and out of round we found a set of sealed bearings and re-bored the drum and refaced the bottom of the drum. Then pressed in a set of new bearings in there own race so the hardened bearings roll on the steel post not the other way around (in the old design the alum, drum spun on the bearings and that is what wore them out). Then we re- knurled the out side and they work perfect. The cost was around 100.00 a lot less then new st's
