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I just took delivery of the 4X4 Intelligence ones pictured above - nice people to deal with. They are massive - actually much bigger than the above photo suggests! They are very heavy too. Two are in the pack, and it seems that you put one on each side of the rail and bolt them together, but they are so bloody massive that I reckon one on each rail - ie one each side you be better!
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Nah I dont think so mate. You should have gotten 4 upgraded longer bolts which means you do put one on each side of the wombat bar/chassis rails. Just hope you havent dinged your bar...I had a big V in mine and it made it a B!TCH to fit...got there in the end. Should take about half our to fit otherwise...
Angus
Yep mate - they supplied the bolts. They told me that they bolt on either side of the rail, but they are so solid I reckon with 8 bolts you could fit one on left and right rail...they are very close to being as thick as my rated recovery point that fits into my hayman reece tow hitch at the rear!
Ok - read the instructions. It is one plate per chassis rail...so 4 bolts and 2 plates and one plate per side of the vehicle with a tree protector slung between them...nice.:)
Good to see you sorted it out. They are very good points...very very solid. I got towed in Tassie and the tow truck guy was very impressed by them and he said that a lot of 4wd's he tows dont have proper points.
The recovery points also fit very well with the bash plate that 4x4intelligence make as well. They are made of 4-5 mill steel and look a lot like the Bearmach ones.
Post some pics when you get em fitted!
Angus
Those are exactly the points in the photo I posted earlier in this tread.
Damn solid, easy to fit and frankly if you damage the points or vehicle trying to snatch with those... you should be looking for a different recovery method than snatching anyway.
Good luck with them.
Mark
Yes recommend you use a bridle always rather than snatching off the one point ( I did bend one doing that ) -- a tree trunk protector is OK, with the loop of the snatch strap threaded through it and the loops of the TTP shackled to your recovery points. That way it sort of "self equalises" to the angle you are pulling at. I cut the arm bit of one of those welding gloves and put that in the centre of the TT protector beneath where the snatch strap is threaded through.
I've heard some people say that TTP straps shouldn't be use for this purpose, but they are actually two layers of woven material laminated together, so I wouldn't see there being an issue. Happy to hear thoughts though.
I've seen you can now get one that is made out of "stretchy" material like a snatch strap, specially made as an equaliser strap.
Thanks fellas - I will see if I can get a black snake.
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Scott
is the black snake a bridle? I am thinking of getting one...but then again its been ages since I needed snatch (not blowing my own trumpet too much am I? :o)
Angus
Gday Angus. I was just saying to my wife this morning that its all bloody funny because I have only needed a snatch on the beach once...very deep fine sand and I was racing back at almost high tide on Main Beach Straddie and had to stop for my brother whose kids in the County were feeling a bit off. Stopped in the soft and I still had my tyres at 24psi. I started to bog in and instead of clearing the diffs/dropping pressures down to 16 say I just said pull me a few feet and we will be off - quicker with tide coming in. So my brother did and with his tyres still up a bit he got stuck (first time for him in hundreds of hours of beach driving and again it was quicker for me to extract with the strap than him...he only got stuck because I had swung around and parked nose to nose and he decided to be lazy and snatch me out from the front of his County!). So with me out I then had to snatch him and we must have looked, despite heaps of beach driving experience between us, like a bunch of *****.:)
I think black snake do a bridle, I will find out. I have the Black Rat snatch strap, but one day if it ever need replacing I will use either a Black Snake snake or a Just Straps...I mainly use the bloody thing to help others out:)
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