Broken recovery point

**glenhendry** · 29th December 2011, 05:25 AM

Had some excellent fun four wheeling yesterday at the Glasshouse Mountains. The P38 performed superbly with two patrols and a pajero. She led the whole way and crawled up steep, rutted hills that others needed a lot of dangerous speed and multiple attempts at.

A note of confirmation about RR recovery points though, and as a way of a caveat, dont bother replying with snipes about what I should and shouldnt have done here, as I am just trying to share some 4wd pics and also a specific note with experience about the breaking strength of our rear recovery point.

The breaking weight is the weight of one white pajero coming up a big hill. It wasnt the gentle snatch that broke it, rather the ensuing tow without using the snatch springiness. Horribly, the big steel D shackle went flying back towards the towed vehicle, missing it thankfully, but not by much. To my greater horror, I (we all) forgot to put the snatch strap damper on it. Thank the FSM, no harm was done to anyone. Obviously, the better spot is in a snatch block insert to the tow bar receiver, or some significantly more sturdy part of the towbar.

Here is the link to the pics:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1058780...eat=directlink

Here is the pic of the busted point:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

**Blknight.aus** · 29th December 2011, 06:07 AM

that loops not a recovery point, its a tie down/flat tow point only intended to be used for securing the vehicle or pulling it up onto a flatbed.

alternatively if it was an aftermarket add on, what was it made from cold forged and welded swiss cheese?

**p38arover** · 29th December 2011, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

that loops not a recovery point, its a tie down/flat tow point only intended to be used for securing the vehicle or pulling it up onto a flatbed.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

alternatively if it was an aftermarket add on, what was it made from cold forged and welded swiss cheese?

It's factory, not aftermarket.

**Blknight.aus** · 29th December 2011, 08:09 AM

wasnt sure if it was the factory loop or not, there was a sort of loop thingy available for the D1 that was little more than a bit of bar stock hammered flat on the ends, drilled and then bent into a U that bolted on in place of the twin tie down rings on the back of a D1. I had assumed that it might have been one of those if it wasnt the factory loop.

are they on both sides on a 38?

**parasnoop67** · 29th December 2011, 08:34 AM

A reasonable solution is to put the pin in the towbar through the loop of the snatch strap. Always us a damper.

There is only 1 loop at the back and one on the front of the p38a.
The one on the front is very securely mounted to the vehicle.

**Keithy P38** · 29th December 2011, 04:51 PM

I'll vouch for the strength of the front one, my green p38 full to the seat edges with water in a fast flowing creek was snatched out at full noise and didn't look like breaking!

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