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On my GU there is a recovery hook on the drivers side but on the other side is only holes. they dont go all the way through. So where do you bolt a hook to on the left hand side?
ok... you can just simply use a 5mm plate with 3 holes in it with captive nuts and put your own hook in there just have to slide the plate inside the chassis and tack it in place or silicon it there so that it stays there and doesnt move around when you're tryin to line it up with the new hook.
I tried to solve this problem for ages. There didn't seem to be any easy solution, other than bolting a hook to the bull bar mounts, which isn't really satisfactory. But if you can't access the other hook, it is better than nothing.
what I have been thinking then is to take the drivers side hook off. Then make up a bar using rhs 70mmx50mm x6mm thick and bolt it to tha bull bar bolts on each side. On this put a centre plate out of 10mm thick plate with hole in middle and weld it in centre of rhs.This would give a centre pull.what do you think?
It should be OK, but I would put the hooks as close to the chasis as possible. In the end I decided that it was a lot of stuffing around for a second recovery point.
GU 4.2TDi ARB stuff
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on later model gu's the hooks bolt to the bottom on the rails on the r/h rail but there is also captive nuts on the left rail aswell so another standard hook should bolt straight on. two bolt set up
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if you have the know how, the mount for the tow hook from outback Ideas is only made form 10mm plate, if you als welded some nuts to a plate and out that inside your chassi rail, you would have no dramas,
But if you can't access the other hook, it is better than nothing.
