Thread: Interesting clip: recovering a rolled Disco

They flew back up the hill after the "recovery".

When I rolled mine the Nissan Club (thanks Fellas) helped us winch it back upright. We unscrewed the injectors, turned it over a few times, screwed them back in and then drove it all the way home from northern NSW to Redcliffe.

Have a look at the flex on the B Pillar and the passenger side rear door

Originally Posted by Xtreme

There is another and IMHO a far better way of recovering a rolled vehicle from such a position with minimum extra damage being inflicted.

As the roof was already damaged, I would have repositioned it while it was on its roof - thereby significently reducing the side panel damage they caused by sliding it around on its side.
Once in an optimum position on the track, one or better still, two straps wrapped right around the vehicle and secured to the chassis plus safety strap/s each end of the vehicle to hold it once back on its wheels. Then the vehicle is ROLLED back onto its wheels by winching in on the strap/s that are wrapped right around the vehicle.

By winching directly onto the chassis, without wrapping the strap around the vehicle, you more often than not will drag the vehicle instead of rolling it back onto its wheels - depending a lot on whether winching point is above or below the chassis anchor point. They did drag it a bit until the other straps stopped it.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words so in the following you should be able to see how the strap is wrapped around the vehicle and secured to the chassis.