Sounds to me like they need greased. Buy yourself a set of Superwinch manual hubs and install them. Somewhere LRJ4x4 has a nice write up on it.


Richard E
1989 Montero - Stock-ish
1989 V6 Auto Raider - 5.3 Vortech Swap.
1987 Mitsubishi Starion 2.6t, soon to be 3.5
1983 Honda XL600R