90 series front recovery points

[Snoopy22 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snoopy22]

I made my points out of structural angle steel

[Mark90s Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark90s]

By the way, the standard front hooks are not not rated so may fail sending broken bits of hook into orbit or through your wifes head.
Buy rated hooks!

Thanks. I'll look to replace them with rated hooks for now.

Snoopy, do you have any pics of them fitted?

[trimardito Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close trimardito]

does anybody have measurements for any of the shackle points posted? So I can get my local builders to make some of these? Im very interested for the front and the rear, I dont trust factory hooks for recovery..

Ive seen aftermarket tow points for vehicles but these are larger and bolted with at least 3 bolts (on these forums, i believe on the 150s) that are more like boomerang shaped. I take it the designs posted here are meant to go in the place of the factory hook??

Thanks,

Luis

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[sae70 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close sae70]

This is always a very emotive subject here in the UK with a lot of different thoughts and solutions on the subject. What I've done is purchase another original manufacturers equipment Pig Tail and fitted that. My thoughts were that firstly when I removed the one the comes on the vehicle it struck me just how heavy duty the thing was. Its no light weight item that's not fit for purpose, but then why would it be?! We are talking about a Toyota Land Cruiser after all. The other thing I like about the pig tail hooks is that if you find yourself in trouble without having pre prepared by rigging up the bridle. It's very simple to just lean under the vehicle while still with both feet on the ground and with one hand hook the Bridle Strop onto the pig tails. With a recovery plate with a hole in it you either have to run around with the Bridle permanently rigged or run the risk of kneeling in the mud doing up a shackle with both hands while mud drips on your arms and face. I've also been involved in many recoveries some very heavy ones and have never lost the Bridle from off of the Pig Tails.

Must just mention that if you do decide the the original fitment Pig Tail is for you. Be carefull not to accidentally fit a rear one to the front as they are a much thinner lighter weight item than the ones on the front and have a different part number!!! You can get the rear ones for little or no money in the UK as they are mostly removed to fit tow bars so there's many laying in people's sheds and garages, but they're not the ones for the job on the front end IMHO.

You can see in this photo I've also kept the heavy duty holed plates just in case, but I've never used them!


Here you can see that I was anticipating a delay so had pre rigged the Bridle on the Pig Tails and then held it up out of the way with a Bungee to the slam panel.




You can just see them here, refitted after installing my winch tray that uses the same mounting holes and thus bolts as the Pig Tails.

[fredd Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fredd]

recovery hooks

I contacted Lukey about 90 series points and he said he does not make them.
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Anybody know of other suppliers who make them for 90 series?

I usually just put a cable tie around the bridle and hook .Seems to work ok

[turpsbeer Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close turpsbeer]

hi did you end up installing recovery points on the 90 series on the front??? Ive been looking everywhere for them and cant find them any where. as I know they are not a standard thing made.

[ratsack Member Find all posts View Profile Close ratsack]

By the way, the standard front hooks are not not rated so may fail sending broken bits of hook into orbit or through your wifes head.
Buy rated hooks!

Can anyone verify this? I read a thread on the 4WD Action forums that said the front hook is rated. I'm not sure if mine is standard or came with the TJM bullbar when they fitted it. Looks pretty solid to me though and I've used it maybe 2 times.

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

Can anyone verify this? I read a thread on the 4WD Action forums that said the front hook is rated. I'm not sure if mine is standard or came with the TJM bullbar when they fitted it. Looks pretty solid to me though and I've used it maybe 2 times.

Does the recovery point have a WLL or a SWL marked on it? If it does then its rated to that figure, if it doesn't then it's not rated.

Cheers Andrew

[mrkrinkle Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mrkrinkle]

I've found nothing as yet

Thankfully haven't had to use them yet ;-)

[GraemeJ Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close GraemeJ]

I just tie it on with a cable tie

[ratsack Member Find all posts View Profile Close ratsack]

Does the recovery point have a WLL or a SWL marked on it? If it does then its rated to that figure, if it doesn't then it's not rated.

Cheers Andrew

I couldn't find one on it. So, that's the only way to tell?

[Mark90s Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark90s]

Mate and i purchased a pair of aftermarket RidgeRyder tow hooks from Supercheap. Apparently rated to 4500kg. Fitted to the front of the 90 and mates Hilux. I have not used them yet but we did use them on my mates Hilux, after he got badly bogged on a recent Fraser trip.

We used a snatch strap connected to a equalizer strap to both hooks. Placed a jumper near the hooks as a precaution.

The same Hilux has also snatched a mud bogged Jimny on just one of the hooks.

So far so good…

[ratsack Member Find all posts View Profile Close ratsack]

I just got one of those earlier this week. Was gonna keep the stock one on and put this on the opposite side.
Just need a rear hitch now and I will feel safer doing crazier things. Haha

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

I couldn't find one on it. So, that's the only way to tell?

The whole term Rated when it comes to recovery points is a bit difficult as even a "rated" point doesn't really mean much as there is no standard in order to test them against for rating purposes.

But the fact is that having a WLL or SWL marked on anything is what makes it rated, even if a product has been fully tested and meets all the standards its not rated until its marked as such.

The fact that a recovery point isn't marked doesn't in itself mean that its not suitable, as strictly speaking most recovery points even when rated aren't truly that either; as most are not tested on the vehicle, so while the point may be fine the mounting method or the chassis that it is attached to may not be up to the same standard.

Its a mine field and has been discussed many times here on PP and unfortunately there is no easy answer.

Cheers Andrew