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I'll be getting one of the qualified welders in work to weld them on for me. We make attchements for excavators / agricultural machines so they are used to doing strong welds on thick steel

These were free though, which is just about within my budget The bumper looks like this B.T.W Thanks for the advice, i knew someone around here would know what they are talking about B)

What dampers are you using ?

Perhaps a bit of 40x10 between the eye and the bumper would do the trick. Going back to Moglite's comment about a sideways pull, how about welding the eyes horizontally on the bumper ?

The shackle is 4.75 T and i'll be able to get about 8 inch of weld around the eye

Was a bit bored this afternoon so made a pair of recovery eyes, which will be welded to my 6mm bumper inline with the chassis rails. But i'm not sure if theyr'e going to be stong enough Anyone got any suggestions ? There's 12mm between the hole and the outer edge, 25mm thick

External/internal projectons aren't part of the comercial SVA test

I've found Procomp ES9000 shocks to be great, but your limited to 15" stroke

Mine are 32"

I used VWP's block conectors. A year on and no sign of corosion, and still come apart easily, much better than the original rubbish

What a coincidence, i was going to start designing one of those in the next few days Any idea what material they use ? as i'm thinking 6mm steel may be a bit OTT and a bit heavy

I've fitted a galv bulkhead to a 90 before, it was a new bulkhead which was then dipped at the local galvers There was some slight bowing in the footwell pannels, (not a problem really) The main things were galv in holes (just needed drilling out) but galv in the holes for the flap hinges and the flap mesh is a bit of a problem The hinge holes are very difficult to clean out, and the mesh is impossible to clean out, could be worth removing it first

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I've just rolled in through the door after a long day, nice to see a load of forumers, Didn't spend as much as i thought i would, got myself a new winch and a wheel to use for the spare B)

I'll be using the string around the tyres method to reset mine as soon as it stops raining

It'll be interesting to see how close that is to mine, i'll have to get mine on the scales one day

Thanks you all, if it's dry tommorow i'll set it with a bit of toe out

Should it be toe in, straight on or toe out for a land rover ?

In my experience, 50 x 6 and a 6mm ring is plenty strong enough B)

I was thinking about this the other day as it was a snatch block that ate my winch web How about making a pulley with a groove say 15mm wide and about 20mm deep, there's very little chance a rope would come out of it ? Anyone see any problems with this idea before i start making it ? Oh, and to keep on topic, i'm using Dyneema, it's not gone fluffy yet, but then again, it's not had much use

Me too

I had a couple of interesting shaped dents in my chassis when i first got it, i cured the problem by cutting out the dents ( the whole side of the rail for about a foot) and welding in a flat plate, flush with the rail, so it's not visable

Thats great, thanks, i'm thinking about getting a set in the next couple of weeks B)

I was asking Warthog sorry