okay this is going to be part one in a three-part series of repair their synthetic winch ropes it's really not that difficult first one is going to be replacing the thimble if you have a open thimble in your eye and it's gotten damaged there it's elongated you really should replace it because what can happen is as it continue to elongate elongate this Kingma can bite down into the the Brummel and eventually cut it cut the rope so what I'm going to do is show you how to take this apart and replace the thimble and then put it back together so this uses a lock to primals place most of the winch ropes I see are using this vehicle the other option is just a plain stitch berry but what you want to do is you're going to want to find come up the rope and you'll see right here where this part of the rope goes into this and that's where you're going to want to pull that out it should pull out pretty easy I've still got the end of this tape just to save some time for when I put it back together you see that's your berry right there so this is what you should have looked like now and then this is going to be the tricky part it's not that difficult you just have to pay attention to what you're doing from here you'll see where this part goes through this part right here this is the actual bro it's actually called a Marlins place what you want to do is you're going to want to pull this out and you're going to want to you're going to need to take your line off your drum because you need to get this all the way through so that means you got to pull all hundred eight hundred hundred twenty-five feet whatever you have sometimes just pull it out like that you can get it loose enough to get the thimble out you can see right here I'm probably going to be able to get that out you just got to work it out once you get an end started just keep rolling this up over the edge if you can't do that then you're going to have to take this loop right here and pull it all the way through pull your rope all the way out so that you can move this one right here so what you have now is this is your fix tie this is where the thimble was you may want to take a marker or whatever mark you know fixed eye-fi Effie and take your new thimble and start at one end and just roll it back in there and then this is going to be again the your winch line this this will go back to the winch pull that tight see that's done and then you're going to use when you pull this out you're going to want to tape it it was some masking tape electrical tape duct tape whatever because you're going to use this as your fin as you're spicing tool so what you're going to do is right down here at the base again this is this is your Barre tail this is your winch line right down here it's going to look like that lift lift up your Barre tail and you're going to want to make a hole you can use your finger and use the outside of a ballpoint pen just split the strands here so you can get inside of it make sure you evenly make sure you don't catch any of the individual strands you want to come right between two of them just make a hole there and opening and then you're going to take your tape then just get it started before you get that in there make sure that this loop right here isn't twisted at all you you don't want it to look like that you want to make sure that it's not twisted at all and then you're just kind of feed this into there come down here here's the end of that tape right here just come down a little bit push some line up pinch it off come back and milk that up and you're just going to do that until until this loop right here disappears into the line just keep doing that see I've still got a little hump there so go a little bit more you see it's gone now you've got a little bit bunched up right there I like to go just a little bit further maybe just one more and then just bring it out the line it doesn't matter where this isn't critical if you've got some newer AM steel you may catch the tracer in here cut it out it's not it serves no purpose other than to signify that you got genuine ham steel blue and then remove the tape this doesn't need to be pretty just get the tape off of it you don't want to leave it on and then before you milk the outer rope back down grab hold of your thimble grab hold of your tail where it came out of line if you got to push that up a little bit and give it a good pull make sure that that that splice is set then come back up here and just look that down and that's it you've just replaced your thimble if you've got a rope thimble or I mean a tube thimble you're going to have to take this completely apart in order to replace that and that's it