I just wanted to plow the driveway

I put the plow on. easy 2 pins & the winch cable
Tighten the shackle to the plow. Good to go.
Hit the winch button to lift the plow
NOTHING, nothing nothing.
jiggled the wires, nothing.
Can hear the relay clicking.
check bat connection , seems ok

OK
Pull it into the shop. quick trouble shoot, not power to the winch.
12V ok feeding the relay. Can't get to the relay
Pull the tire, still not enough room.
Take the plow off, pull the plywood front rack, pull the rack
remove the cover under the rack, now I can see the relay.
measure 12 volts in nothing out.
Side covers off, get the relay out (this was not easy or fast), test. it's bad.
Of course everything is in front of the truck, got move everything so I can go parts shopping.

Call auto parts, open to 10pm, go to Orieley's ,
guy looks & looks & took 20 minutes but he finally finds a
continuos duty 12 Volt relay I can make work.
$45.00

Roads havent' been plowed but everyone was driving pretty cautious.
No issues to & from town.

Install relay , OK it works
Put atv back together
5 + hours to plow Plow the driveway


Looked all around the shop for MURPHY, he's in there somewhere.

At least I was able to find the right parts & had a warm place to work on it.

 

9:15
Time to get some supper
Left overs & the last piece of apple pie

 

Nice to have a parts shop open that late on a saturday

 

Ouch. Hate it when stuff like that happens. Glad you got it fixed though Dave.

 

Look at the bright side Dave, there could have been 2' of snow while this was going on.............

 

Good job with troubleshooting & fixin' Dave. Hoping that MURPHY has left your property and all of Alaska, for that matter. But NOT headed here either..
That bench you made is a work of art .

 

Good work on the troubleshooting! and no offense, I knew MURPHY wasn't near me, things actually were going my way for a change.

 

Glad you got it fixed and the drive plowed bogydave. There's nuthin quite like a warm place to work is there...

 

Stuff only breaks when you need it. LOL

Well now I have the bugs ironed out , ready to plow,
next: snow tires on wife's car

Pretty sure it won't be the last time I work on a 12 year old atv

About 2-1/2 ". little dusting after I plowed

Daylight picture:

 

Nice job. That always seems to be the way.

 

It could've broke when I was out cutting.
Lucky it happened at home on solid ground

 

It seems like nothing breaks on a beautiful, sunny day. When it's cold and snowing, that's when everything goes to heck!

 

Looks like I got the plow on & the atv working just in time
More snow in the forecast