Thread: Puma recovery points

Try a search. There are several posts/threads here on that, especially about the front.
Rear is easy - use the tow hitch system.


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I went with something along these lines for the front:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/90-110-130...=puma+recovery

I like something that pulls 'up' despite the potential difficulty of accessing it when stuck.

I just use a hitch style recovery point for the rear.

The rear is OK to bolt to the existing bolts holes? It looks like it is connected tot eh chassis rails but I wanted to make sure. I don't need to fit a tow bar so it would be great if I can bolt straight tot he rear bar.

Originally Posted by nugge t

Just wondering where guys have installed recovery points front and back on Puma's.

I've got a set of front Jate hooks off my 07 Puma if you are interested.

Originally Posted by nugge t

The rear is OK to bolt to the existing bolts holes? It looks like it is connected tot eh chassis rails but I wanted to make sure. I don't need to fit a tow bar so it would be great if I can bolt straight tot he rear bar.

I think for the rear you'll want to go at least Jate rings (or equivalent).

What exactly are you planning on bolting to the rear? Hooks will need two holes.

Hi Nugget,

Here's a photo of the rear recovery points on my Puma. Like you, I don't have a tow bar.

Jate Rings
The two jate rings are cool, but not very practical for water/mud recoveries because they're so far under the vehicle. There's two types of jate rings: forged and welded. IMO forged are best. To install them you'll need to buy two M10 x 150mm bolts. Make sure that you get high tensile (8.8 or better) because the tie-down bolts that come from the factory aren't long enough. I think that there's two widths of jate rings, so be careful that you get the size you want. The ones I have allow the factory tie-down rings to remain in place.

Swivel Recovery Point
This is by far my favourite and has proved the most useful. It is a Bearmach BA 2682 swivel shackle. Just Google 2682 swivel shackle. It cost about £40 plus another £32 postage as it weighs about 4Kg. It came with a useless 1.5t rated D shackle. The unit is much more solid than the 1.5t shackle would imply and for $20 a local machine shop drilled the clevis out an additional couple of millimetres to fit a 4.75t bow shackle pin. Another minor mod was required so that the shackle cleared the clevis properly. The photo shows the recovery point with the 4.75t bow shackle in place. The mounting holes in the mounting plate align perfectly with the towbar holes on the rear cross member on both my 1985 county and 2010 puma. The bolts supplied with the recovery point fit the puma perfectly and you can throw away the threaded base plate (the county needed it but the puma didn't).

I bought both the jate rings and swivel recovery point from lrdirect.com but their web site is very difficult to use due to timeouts and the way it is organised.

Was thinking of somethign along this line

Rear Recovery Hitch | LRS Offroad

Or this which I could fabricate myself

I like the look of the LRS hitch... a bit reminiscent of a Patrol. The problem I had when originally researching recovery points was that I could never find a load rating on any of the the recovery points that I looked at so I didn't really know how they stacked up against the ratings on the shackle and strap. But then again, I don't know what the rear cross member is rated at. The Defender is rated to tow 3.5t but (a) the towbar attaches to other points on the chassis in addition to the rear cross and (b) a recovery load rating would be quite different to a towing rating.