Recovery points on sierras

[VR Rodeo]

Problem is if you do accidently bend that bar it will mess up your chassis rails and cause bigger drama's. I run 2 eyebolts off my new cross member with them screwed into a tube welded in place, the tube covering the full length of the thread, and using a bridle between them.


By the way why the apology for the grave dig, it shows you have put in the effort to search and is what people want

[DavePatrol]

PS You've scrubbed out your numberplate in Photo 2 but it's still there in Photo 3 [/quote]

yer i no it was the only photo i had, i dont even remember doing it, normaly dont even bother lol

[11_evl]

this what i did, plated on inside.
i looked at doing it under rail like others have but didnt want them hanging down

[Guy]

Oh, as an aisde, I was working on a sierra on the weekend that in a previous life was driven hard in lots of mud with 35" tyres and a SPOA on it, but no front locker.

As a result, it has had some VERY hard recoveries over the years. The front crossmember is bent forwards and the tie down has just started to crack away from the back of the crossmember (only in the weld). I'd still recover off it and I didn't judge, for the car's current use, it required repair.

I can't stress how hard this car will have been recovered over the years.

Steve.

Is that my old car ..

If thats my old car ?

I know when that happened ... a big old old fordson tractor did it.
It was not done with a snatch strap .. a cable, half set concrete style clay at th edge of a dam and a dirty big log was the culprit (unknown at the time) I am amazed the crossmember didnt tear out .. (The car had been turned into a 5 ft wide grader blade)

I got stuck trying to recover .. of all things .... a stuck cow ..

That old tractor would move almost anything that could be moved, ... The biggest issue I had using it to drag out a bogged tri axle tipper in the block over the road was keeping the tractor from climbing it's axles and going over backward.

[Gwagensteve]

Yep.

Steve.