Thread: 2012 110 recovery points..!!

I've got the arb bar and have used it a couple times. Fairly easy snatching mind you, but still put on some pressure. It's newish and has the high lift jack/recover points.

do you have a picture of the location you used?

Just had a quick chat with an automotive engineer, looked at what i proposed didn't say a thing and went on to say that he would replace the front standard bar with a box section and creat a central point built into the new bar. oh well food for thought. Jate rings are looking better and better.

I have shared the lower mounting flange (8mm steel) of the bullbar to mount two standard high tensile recovery hooks, so in practice attached to the bullbar. They are as close to inline with the chassis as possible and they are angled inwards by around 10 degrees, both due to available steel cover and the intent to as far as possible split the load.

I've recovered a couple of vehicles backwards using the hooks and they work fine. Where possible I try and use a dyneema bridle to spread the load as well.

Obviously high tensile fasteners on all points.

Cheers,

Lou

what about this idea, works for me,
Courtesy PO & Ivan at Wodonga



normally if you recovered from ring ontop of bullbar it would twist your bar ,
but underside are some engineered brackets that go back to the chassis.

Just had another crawl under the defender.

Annoyingly, the wider jate rings (part ZXC9435) I see quoted dimensions of 95.5mm to 97mm between the internal faces.

I measure 98-100mm required with steering guard and my ARB bullbar fitted using the same bolt hole

Anyone else fitted jate rings and a bullbar/steering guard?

Originally Posted by Samblers

Just had another crawl under the defender.

Annoyingly, the wider jate rings (part ZXC9435) I see quoted dimensions of 95.5mm to 97mm between the internal faces.

I measure 98-100mm required with steering guard and my ARB bullbar fitted using the same bolt hole

Anyone else fitted jate rings and a bullbar/steering guard?

Some discussion here:
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic12399.html?view=previous
Cheers
KarlB

Originally Posted by goingbush

what about this idea, works for me,
Courtesy PO & Ivan at Wodonga



normally if you recovered from ring ontop of bullbar it would twist your bar ,
but underside are some engineered brackets that go back to the chassis.

I did something similar to this on my previous Defender - worked well.

On my current Defender (which was fitted with the same bar pictured above) I just used longer lower chassis mounting bolts and fitted a 10,000lb forged recovery hook on the outside of the bar's chassis mounting plate. It makes the recovery points pretty unobtrusive with the added benefit of them also providing some lift as part of a recovery (due to their relatively low mounting position).

Unfortunately I can't help with pics as I've just removed the bar to fit a tubular winch style bar