Thread: Recovery Points

Originally posted by VladTepes
How many bits of plastic cars have you managed to rip off in those efforts :?: - Some of those 'soft roaders' don't seem to have ANY recovery points or places to put them.

Back in my younger and totally inexperienced 4wheelin days I managed to rip part of the bullbar off a hilux (or should I call it a wetlux) that was stuck in a creek, luckily it was the owner that attached the snatch strap. No damage other than to the bullbar.



Bushie

Originally posted by VladTepes
Which means THEY needed good front recovery points and YOU needed good REAR ones. (I assume).

How many bits of plastic cars have you managed to rip off in those efforts :?: - Some of those 'soft roaders' don't seem to have ANY recovery points or places to put them.

Yea, the square tube Hayman Reese type towbar is nearly impervious to ****ups, ( oops )
just take the tube out and use the pin and I reckon I could shift the Cherry Venture,, 8O


never ripped a front mount off anything yet,, the sand seems to be a great medium for snatching,,,,






( i KNOW theres a joke there somewhere,,, 8O )

Just reading 4WD mag where one guy wrote in because the testers bad mouthed his brand of soft roader. Apparently he thinks it really is a quality fourby even though he got his plastic sump guard and front bumper assembly ripped right of the vehicle when doing a sand snatch using the factory recovery points [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
That would have been one of those times when i would have fallen over laughing.

BTW the steering guard is bolted to the chassis rails, its sort of two v structures running point down with a dirty great tube joining them at the bottom if you know what i mean. Looking at it the physics would be all wrong for lateral heay loads.

Well there you go then.....

Now this gets more interesting. Dropped in to ARB in Adelaide Friday for a few things, and whilst there I got to chatting about the front recovery point issue. The ARB guy was quite adamant that the eyes on the bottom of the ARB bullbars are rated for snatch recovery both on the winch and non-winch versions or their bars!! :?

So what do we do? I now have (Defute's) ARB bullbar on my Defender (thanks Marcel [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] ), which has made the chassis rails too wide for the existing JATE rings. Do I get new JATE rings wide enough to fit over the bullbar mounts as well as the chassis rails, drill the chassis to fit the more commonly avaliable hook thingies or trust ARB and use the recovery eyes on the bullbar? :roll:


Paul

They told me the same thing and to be fair I don't really have any reason NOT to believe them.

I have never actually MET anyone who has had (or even seen) these let go.

And if ARB were advertising these points as rated points but they commonly failed it would surely be lawsuit time, so I don't think they'd promote them as rated points if they were not.

My opinion anyway.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>I don't think they'd promote them as rated points if they were not. [/b][/quote]

I tend to agree. But I cant find anything actually written by ARB, just what the saleman says. I know I'm being pedantic but...


Paul