Hickey Sidewinder Rebuild

Here's how the story goes: I've been searching for a sidewinder for years and have already passed up looking at/getting two in the past 5 years and finally when the third came around I had enough and snagged it. $60 got me the winch, solenoid box, controller, and mounting plate for a late 70's bronco. This thread will be my rebuild process documented with part numbers and pictures. Bear with me as I will only get a day or two a week to work on this because I'm back at Rutgers during the week.

 

After lots of reading, here are the parts I have come up with I will confirm if they are correct as I work on replacing parts...I need to get a sandblasting cabinet now..

Outer case bearing: JAF brand model R-12
Inner case bearing : SKF brand model EE6
Top cover free spool shaft seal: Timken brand model 7188S
Bottom spool seal: SKF brand model 14857
motor gear case seal: SKF brand model 7414

working on tracking down a replacement motor and part number for such, current prestolite motor on it is a MBJ4412

 

got the top cover off and found a lot of water:


Top gear and worm drive look good,


Free spool shaft seal not so much:


Moved on to taking the front cover off to inspect the other gears, had to hammer on smaller metric sockets to get some of these bolts loose, broke a fair lead bolt too, fun later down the road for me


Found where all the water was hiding over the years....


The gears look serviceable if i blast them, the rust scraped off pretty easy with a knife in the teeth and they seem like there is enough tooth lest for it to work fine




and finally the dead 3 post motor:

 

I see blue question marks except for the last one.....of the starter motor tag.

 

I can't win with these pictures, I see them on my end. Let me see if it's a privacy issue.

 

I have some trouble with it sometimes too. I snap pics with my camera, download to the laptop, then to my media from the laptop. Old school I guess but, it almost always works.

 

Picked up another one last night on the way to get chicken wings down in the pine barrens. $50. Now I have a second one incase I end up needing parts or if they both end up being serviceable a second one to rebuild. The first one should clean up with new seals and bearings and a motor. I just need to find a sand blasting cabinet to clean these things and their gears up... Urg next purchase. I need to make sure I have enough money to buy my GF Christmas and birthday presents.

 

Buy her a sand blasting cabinet.

One more sidewinder winch and will achieve collector status.

 

I was going to buy her cushions for my boat so she can stay comfy when we go out on it... That's for her, right?

 

yeah home appliances and cooking stuff fall in this same category