Thread: Recovery points: cost?

I took my steering rod protector off, it is mounted to the crush cans, the recovery hooks you can buy get bolted there, mine where $20 each from a member on this forum, he had heaps made up, made out of 12mm plate steel (rated to), perfect fit.


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Jason.

Thought it was fishy. Thanks fellas.

Originally Posted by Rosscoe68

where do you get them from?, i can't find a online seller

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Originally Posted by tapout

I took my steering rod protector off, it is mounted to the crush cans, the recovery hooks you can buy get bolted there, mine where $20 each from a member on this forum, he had heaps made up, made out of 12mm plate steel (rated to), perfect fit.


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Jason.

Although I fully appreciate these points are strong enough and the issue of recovery points on the front of a D2 is a bit of a headache, I still see the position of these to be to "high" up under the front, surely even a dead straight forward pull then the rope or whatever is used will be in contact with the bumper, if the pull is going upwards from the recovering vehicle, then it again would be even worse............if the front ends in mud, theres no way your getting to those points at all ......

Or am I barking up the wrong tree!!........

This is "one" of the reasons I chose the pre facelift ARB as it has the tow points on the front of it, and I "persoanlly" would always use the winch in preference to a "snatch" recovery if I was "that" stuck.

The 4x4 intelligence ones are very good and well priced. See their web site. They are extremely heavy items and bolt straight to the chassis behind the crush cans. I have them on my 02 with a TJM steel winch bar. They do come down a bit lower and more forward than the ones pictured from what I can tell from the photos.

As for snatch v winching - you have to have a place to winch too...bit hard when stuck deep on the beach and sand anchors that work are heavy and no one really has them in real life. As for winching otherwise, it is nice to be able to self extract no doubt but if someone is handy with a strap and rated shackles and if you have solid front points with a bridle why not - far quicker than winch and saves your plasma rope/cable/winch for another time when you are flying solo or there is no room for the snatch.

In some ways I would like a winch, but its one of those things...if I stick one on I just know I am going to start getting stuck!!!

Cheers

PS. Here is a link showing some - these are not mine but are a better pic than the ones i posted on a similar thread http://www.aulro.com/app/data/500/medium/image1.jpg

Its not only the recovery hook/bracket that needs to be rated but the point at which you attach it needs to be, too. The $500 price sounds like Bruce Davis, who, for that sum not only supplies a beefed up recovery point but also reinforces the attachment point on the chasis, which ordinarily is not designed to take the sort of loads experienced in snatching.

I discussed the lack of recovery points with LR some years ago. Issue is a legal one - they don't want to take the risk. The LR executive I spoke to said "Don't get yourself into trouble and you won't need a front recovery point". Further on in the conversation he suggested running a snatch strap under the vehicle from the rear tow bar!

How can you design and market an off road vehicle and not provide recovery points. It is one of the most ridiculous shortcomings of LR, IMHO.
Mundy

replace the bolts securing the front control (radius) arms to the axle with slightly longer ones and secure a rated hook to each. when you are headed for harm's way, secure a couple of rated 3m slings, one to each hook and tie them out of the way onto the bull bar. when you get into strife, simply connect the slings with a rated shackle to the tow rope and get the tow vehicle to firmly pull you out NOT snatch you out...

For a reasonable engineering explanation of why this is a superior recovery attachment method read Technical Review of ADR

good luck

The recovery points on my D2 are not in the way of my bullbar (4 inches away when being used for recovery), ive been pulled up hill for the gclro dare (driver awareness recovery education) and all passed with flying colours, if you are doing that sort of driving where your cars frontend gets buried you should have a shovel or drive to suit conditions.

Jason.