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Well I've spent the last three hours trying to fit two front recovery hooks to the front of my Landcruiser without success. The holes in the chassis just do not match the holes in the hooks. They are about 2 or 3 mm out.

Another problem is that some of the holes have nuts welded to the inside of the chassis rail so the bolts that I got with the hooks will not go through.

The best that I can come up with is to use holes 1 and 2 (but i'm still a couple of mm out) by putting a rated bolt from the tow hook that screws into the nut welded to the chassis and putting a bolt that came with the recovery hook in hole 2. The only way I can really manage this is to drill out hole 2 so its bigger but I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do.



I don't know if this make it any clearer.

Any help greatly appreciated.

I wouldnt drill the nuts out, I have a 75mmx75mmx10mmm angle iron mouted uunder the chassis then mounted the hook to this so hook is sideways under car, works good

Well, it was easier than I thought. The captive nuts were only held on by four small welds (one in each corner). After a couple of dozen belts with a hammer and cold chisel, the nuts came off leaving clear holes in the chassis. I invested $20 on a decent round metal file from Bunnings and with a bit of effort expanded each hole by about 1.5mm making the bolts on the recovery hooks fit.






I now have two rated recovery hooks on the front of the Landcruiser.

Looks nice emo... How much did the hooks set u back? jt

You have slighty inspired me to fit the two i have in the shed to mine. Nice work

joelthommo wrote:Looks nice emo... How much did the hooks set u back? jt

$15 each from Brawn. I think that ARB sell them for about $20 each as well.

RV wrote:You have slighty inspired me to fit the two i have in the shed to mine. Nice work

Go on. You know you want to. It gives you some decent front points for snatching out those Nissans.

I got mine off a truck from a wreckers ( think they cost $40 for four). The holes line up perfectly an it was just a matter of bolting the things on with cap screws. I Think that the standard thread size for those nuts in the rails is 12mm X 1.5

Kris TM wrote:I got mine off a truck from a wreckers ( think they cost $40 for four). The holes line up perfectly an it was just a matter of bolting the things on with cap screws. I Think that the standard thread size for those nuts in the rails is 12mm X 1.5

Mate, you were lucky. I couldn't find any hook that matched the Landcruiser holes.

Three hours and you didn't think to use a drill?

mate if i were u,

i'd flip those hooks up the other way, and notch out ya bullbar to suit,

cause they will get hung up on every thing.

easy, just run them on the bottom part of ya chassis, but on the inside.

i'm going to fit some hooks to mine on the weekend

And get your sloppy concreter to come back and clean the shyte of the brick work
Peter.

I just took the hooks from our work hilux's. We never use them, and they just go to auction when they've done 50k's.

If you are worried about the hooks catching, can they be mounted on the side of the rail instead of the bottom ?

Turbz.

Ive got two downwards facing ones on my hilux, and theyve been there for 14 years and never caught on anything....

ferrit wrote:Ive got two downwards facing ones on my hilux, and theyve been there for 14 years and never caught on anything....

From what I've read on this forum and all the people giving you shit I didn't think you had that Hilux for a year let alone 14

Although if you have hooks like that and they have never hit anything then I have to ask the question.....do you ever take it out of the garage?