Outer Limits 4x4 Board

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?

if you roll it your problem is solved it is onthe left

please explain?

mavzilla wrote:if you roll it your problem is solved it is onthe left

its funny cause it true

Buy a set of these from Outback Ideas

thats fine blkmav but its sill the drivers side, I want to know what you do on the left side.

Fits where your bullbar is mounted, well it does on my GQ

I have three holes there but no nut on the other 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.

theres no place to put the nuts in.

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?

I thought about that sort of thing too.

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.

the only other way i can do it is to weld some angle about 10mm thick over the left side holes and tap new holes in it for the new hook.

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

I have the 2000 GU, no captive nuts on that side

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,