NEW U.S.A. WINCH SOLENOID WARN 12 VOLT HEAVY DUTY 28396 72631

These were a direct replacement for the four solenoids in my 1970’s Warm 8274, Easy to install because all wiring and jumpers are the same as original. I upgraded to 2 AWG wire from the solenoids to the motor. I had ordered the new style solenoids from Warn but they are a different shape and require a new backup plate and different copper jumper links. It’s a lot of work and money to retrofit to the new design. These value priced Chinese solenoids worked perfectly (no grounding problems and wired exactly like the original design). Time will tell if they will work in the long run but solenoids are not complicated electronics. My old ones lasted over forty years and only an electrical fire from engine ruined them. I think these will work fine and are so easy to install.

I used this for 80's jeep winch control which blew up by a sort inside the the motor but i got the motor fixed and had to replace the solenoids. These are smaller than what i had but they work like a charm. Good apm rating, heavy duty and easy to work with. I had to make some new cables and fully modify the motor driver unit but these worked fine.

When it worked, it worked well. As soon as it was placed under a heavy load, the solenoid got extremely hot (too hot to touch) and simply failed. Assume it burned up and shorted out internally due to the extreme heat build up internally. More interestingly, the temperature was only @ 60 degrees F out where is was being operated. Would have been a bit easier to understand if it would have been a 100+ degree day. My "return window" has closed about 3 weeks ago - my luck, so now the first time I actually got to use it, it failed.

Work great but had to trim the meatle plate to make them fit but these are nit a warn product we see in time how long they will last

Just like the original. They even had the Warn logo printed on them. Last year I purchased a set of knockoff relays and two of them already failed. This time I decided to go with OEM relays. So far they are great. I expect they will last much longer than the knockoffs. If any of them fail prematurely, I’ll update this review.

These seem well made but were not a direct replacement for my XD9000i winch; modification was required. These solenoids have a stainless metal mounting tab (shown on left and right sides of the picture) that is too wide for my winch which uses an 8mm channel where the solenoids slide into place. The replacement solenoids' mounting tab was too wide for the channel and they must install perpendicularly for the copper buss bars to fit. The only choice was to trim the mounting tabs. This was not a big issue for me; I used a fine-point sharpie as well as a dremmel cutoff wheel and a 4" grinder after making a paperboard pattern from the broken warn solenoids. If your winch solenoids install in a similar way, you must be capable of minor fabrication or else shop for another solenoid of the correct size. Solenoids came with replacement nuts and lock washers for all terminals but no mounting hardware (but like I said, my winch doesn't require mounting hardware but is picky about the size of that metal baseplate).

Worked fantasticly, came in Warn packaging and slid right into the slot that all my other solenoids sit in, im not sure about the others that have fitment issues, but i didnt have any problems, i ran it for quite some time since i had to wind a new winch cable. definately is not a starter solenoid, it worked for a solid 10 minutes and is still kicking.

These solenoids work great but did give me some heartburn. I only needed to replace one and it didn't work when wired like the original. In fact, NONE of them worked when wired as the original. I discovered that the switch body/metal mount does not work as a ground like every other solenoid I've ever installed on anything. There are two small poles on the switch and one is the "hot" pole to activate the solenoid- the other actually has to be wired to ground for the switch to work. Many Ford solenoids have that 2nd small pole and it is used to activate a light that indicates "starter engaged". That pole is never used in most solenoid applications. After discovering that none of these 4 solenoids worked when grounded to the mount, I almost returned them. I decided to try one with the second pole to ground and it worked. There's no info sheet or wiring diagram included- so it's all seat of the pants troubleshooting. Once I figured that out they work great.

Good price great fit works as advertised

Came in factory bag with Warn logo on bag and item. Seems to work fine. Fast shipping 3.5 days to Vancouver Isl.

This doesn’t come with the nuts so you’ll have to source them somewhere else.

Has failed after three months of very minor use

Typical warn. Works perfect right out of the box.