Offroad-Express

Hi,

Just trying to work out a location for mounting some recovery hooks on the rear. I currently have a tow bar. Problem I have found is that the hooks will end up being mount along way under neath which could make access difficult when they are needed also causing chafe on the towline.

As an alternative can I remove the towball and use a 6.5t or largest that will fit D shackle through the towball mounting hole? Or other option of having a short 10t strop that I can put around the towbar rail.

Cheers, 2dr

Make a bolt on custom bar man, way eaiser. its just a pain in the ass if you want to tow somthing.

Does your tow bar have a 50mm receiver coupling?

Easy to make up a hook mount that goes into the receiver

I realise this is a little old but mounting a D shackle in your towball mount is dodgey. Bill Hohepa said to do it on his show.
I did it and sheared the bolts off and lost the whole towbar assembly.
Perhaps beefing up the bolts might help?

Brown Smurf wrote:I realise this is a little old but mounting a D shackle in your towball mount is dodgey. Bill Hohepa said to do it on his show.
I did it and sheared the bolts off and lost the whole towbar assembly.
Perhaps beefing up the bolts might help?

what was it bolted to?

mine has 6 large bolts that go right through the chassis rail on 2 different planes
Ive bent a hook, stretched hook bolts , but the tow bar didn't move at all.

As with any recovery point , proper attachment to chassis is critical.

agree, several hilux's i have had have had there towbars mounted slightly differently some with 8 bolts some with 6, depends on what model and what tow bar was fitted.

i have found the NZ new hilux's have beefed up tow bars compared to the surfs etc that came into the country with them on.