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Detachable Tow hitch + Tank gaurd
J.D.:
This is a pic of the tow bar attachment, its not on my truck but it is exactly the same.
The winch tray is 6mm steel, powdercoated, with the winch sat in it and Anderson pugs concealed in the rear bumper for the power leads. In this photo the winch tray would sit approx level with the rearmost of the two pins which attach the towbar to the tank guard. On the rear of the winch tray, next to the fairlead is a 3.5 tonne tow jaw to enable snatch blocking the winch and to keep the hook from whipping around. I have plasma cuttered off the bottom inch of the tow bar attachment just to line it up with the bottom of the winch tray, which roughly cuts the towbar attachment in half. It does weigh a lot to put it on there, but seeing as it gets used at every off road event (I do punch hunts).
Winch tray is attached with 4 x 24mm towbar bolts through the front of the tray (I figured as a 5 tonne tow jaw uses 4 x 19mm bolts, then 4 x 24mm bolts must be strong enough)
Its great for lowering the car into the hole, getting the punch and pulling it out, saves time in dropping in, punching the card and then dragging it through the hole with the front winch. Its easy to use with the in car controls, as you can seet the car with the front wheels to keep it in ruts.
At some point I will be really flash and mount a camera in the winch tray and wire it up to the DVD player in the car so you can see how the rope is lying on the winch.
Range Rover Ron:
My Guardian does what it says on the tin!
Range Rover Blues:
My southdown rattles, also you'll find as it's designed for the Disco that it sticks out behind the bumper and looks silly. I had the drop plate made shorter, ask them about it when you buy.
Johnny, when you had all that weight in, did you exceed the axle load? did you pump up the tyres? my LSE always sits level, even with 150kg on the towball :-k
auf_wiedersehen_pet:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on October 31, 2008, 01:43:23 ---Well I've got the SOuthdown, but it's over 30 kg and pulled the back of the car down a bit. Given the all up weight is now about 2,300kg
--- End quote ---
I collected a Southdown tank guard from the IOW for fellow MC'er Bambamjj. It is a seriously heavy bit of kit. If you are into hard core off roading then this is the one. If you ponce about (like me) it's overkill.
Jonny Boaterboy:
RRB, I'm not sure about the Axel weights...... to be honest I don't know what the limits are :-$ the Range Rover is about 2.5 tonne the trailer is about 850kg I had 20 bags of cement (0.5 tonne The max for the boot) and 3 tonne of sand in the trailer. (max for the Trailer is 3.5 tonne) On the weigh bridge it was 6+ tonne. So I guess I must have been over the max weight I should carry...... Made no odds to the Range Rover it pulled just the same as pulling 1 tonne :shock: I'm on BFG AT 245/70/R16 and allways run the front at 40psi and rear at 50psi unless I'm off road, with all that weight the rear could have do with going up to 60psi but it was only for a couple of miles.
I think you can say if you want a diffrent length drop down plate, but he didn't say anything about the "width" So thanks for that defernightly don't want one that sticks out! Will have to try and stop it rattling though!
As for it been an over kill.... that's me all over, you never know there may be a high curb about!
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