BigJimnyMeet (North) 2024 (12 Jan 2024)
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Tow bar & recovery options
You don't get to use phrases like "over the years" with the stuff we get sold today.
Mine must be 25 years old (and on its 3rd or 4th towbar)- the zinc has long corroded off and it is black hammerite, but it doesn't get a lot of towing use.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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facade wrote:
kirkynut wrote: Look at Dixon Gate tow hitches. Perfect for towing and recovery!
dixon-bate.co.uk/products/gb/130-bradley-jaws
Obviously cheaper from other sources.
Kirkynut
I have the one called JAW-E40TC-3500K, the ball is on top of the pin, so I keep the ball & pin part out, and then you can read my numberplate. It is a towsure bar
the 5 tonne ones have 4 bolts
It's those two bolts which most usually fail
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11/60 wrote: Aye and if you are being energetic enough trying to unstick a Jimny and manage to kill 2 m16 grade 8.8 bolts, I would suggest you are doing it wrong.
Exactly this. If you apply the equivalent of 148,800 lbs of pulling force to the back of a Jimny those bolts won't be the only things to break!
I suspect most of the towball failures occur in America and Australia where they don't tend to use the same forged towball design as we do here and have much bigger, heavier trucks. In Oz, where a typical expedition Landcruiser or Patrol weighs about 4 tons, the towball is typically just bolted through a steel tongue like this:
There is also this kind of combination hitch which bend like a banana if you use them with the pin removed:
Apples and Oranges.
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facade wrote: If you are being recovered with a snatch rope, if something is going to break, you want it to be your end, then your towball goes through his windscreen, rather than the other way round.
PMSL.
Do it right - use Hammerite
When the blue light is flashing I am kidding.
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