Free undercoating….
Its probably just cheap grease that is separating in the heat. There is no seal there so im not sure what you want the dealer to do except for spray some brake kleen and wipe it off…
I dont see what the issue is but then again i have a ton of fluid film caked on the underside of my truck so that little bit of seeping is nothing…
I'm glad to hear that you have a bunch of caked on fluid on the under side of your truck. What that has to do with the tea in China I don't know. That you have a truck that you don't take care of?
You have a leak and are one of those slobs that just leaves things because it runs?
You don't wash the under side of your truck?
Or just in general you don't take care of your equipment?
I have had the 10s fail on Me once, out in the Mountains on my JK, I had to be towed back by a friend in a cj7 out to a logging road to where we could get heavy duty towing to get me to the nearest town, it took all day.
If I had gone camping with my M101 trailer and CVT rooftop tent, That year just the wife and I and the dog I would have had to either put out an emergency signal or hump it for 2 days, at least to get to cell coverage.
So once again recovery equipment is extremely important, wheeling 101, 30 years ago. It can save your life or someone else's.
Back to the leak.
Warren recommends that you run the motor monthly monthly to get the moisture out. Basically the heat in the motor will get rid of any condensation.
This was the cause of my last failure on the 10 S, It Turned out once we got the Winch apart that there was corrosion inside from moisture, With the amount of recovery I do with that JK, I had figured that that motor had gotten hot enough to get any moisture out of it.
The thing I'm not a fan of with the Zeon Series is the way they seal. I have seen corrosion come out of where the motor joins to the body. Even though you run the winch monthly to get the heat up to get the moisture out.
It could be grease separation, yet the manager of my local 4 Wheel Parts is is one of my best friends, who also been a red seal mechanic for 15 years And he has seen a ton of these Warn and Every brand you can name of fail at 1 point or another.
Also their shop Foreman concurs with the manager and myself that we don't think it's oil separation from the Greese.
What will the Teck at the dealership be able to do, since hes a friend hes not gonna just spray breaklean on it.
You can test the motor there's a thing called a multimeter and if you've ever heard of it? Which have already done.
There are a lot of ways to test a winch to see if it's working properly properly!
And the things that we have tried tried I've already spoken to him he will take a look at it and see if he can find anything different if nit's different if not I'll keep running it.
The more skilled eyes on it the better.
I've been running it all season with a backup winch that I use In a plate that goes in the rear class 5 hitch.
We see 4th Gen. Power wagons Come to 4 Wheel Parts all the time, built up Huge.
49 out of 50 of the guys have never even spooled out their winch. They drive around in their big truck And never take it off road. Not only that the last guy who had A 2017 with only 80000 miles on it and a whole giant overland set up AEV full set up and Thurnen lift the works, Where the controller goes was so rusted he couldn't get the pins in, And this is a very common problem on the power wagon unless you put diuretic grease, At least once a year should be twice a season.
It is very likely that it is something simple but but when you spend that kind of honey money for a level 3 power wagon or a level 2 with Most of the options brand new you expect everything to work properly.
As I said I'll have him a look at it, What else can he do you ask? he can warrany it and get FCA Canada to replace it♂️♂️
up here in the Canadian North you have to test your gear at the beginning of every season. If you go out in the bad country camping or truly wheeling.
We don't wheel in a mud puddle in the middle of Tennessee, or Take our trucks through some dirt road 10 miles from a town with cell coverage and call that wheeling or back country camping.
Where I live and wheel, if something fails, you can easliy die. So your gear is very very important!
Especially The winch, it cannot fail that's that's why I don't use junk brands and part of the baked in price of this truck, is a Warn 12000 pound winch.
