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Replacement for a NATO hitch on a Defender


roamingyak

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The two-bolt pintles fix with two M16 bolts, the four-bolt with M12s. A bit of maths on the total cross section of boltage reveals there isn't much difference in likely ultimate tensile strength, the four bolts do have a slight advantage but the cross member will probably let go before the bolts do and in any event if you break 8.8 bolts like that then you're trying way too hard.

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I've got a Southdown too, but they aren't made any more as far as I can tell. I ended up getting a Terrafirma receiver hitch for the Puma, which is effectively a similar arrangement except one pin rather than two (and a lot easier to fit and take off the attached tow point, mine is a tow ball on a drop plate so it only goes on when I am using it).

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