![]() ![]() Light weight – and with a suspension system that leads itself to quickly “HOOK” on the 1320, the Fox is as good as it gets. One thing to realize about Aliexpress (the headwaters for Amazon/eBay crap) stuff is that there can be a big variation in actual quality across sources even if everything looks the same.The Fox-Body Ford Mustang is one of the most popular chassis choices in history for drag racing. ![]() I've got a screw-in tow loop that looks like the one hammered here sitting on my workbench, I'm going to take a look at it. I have seen a strong move to "soft shackles" from my recovery trainer friend. But that's for much higher loads than dragging a little racecar out of a level gravel trap. I usually have the strap inside the receiver for the hitch with the pin going through it, and use big D shackles with real working load ratings at the ends. Tow strap good, tow HOOKS are banned, they fail way before the strap would and who wants a half pound projectile headed their way?Īlso drape a towel over the strap, if it breaks this will slow down its flight considerably.ĭo they distinguish between loops and hooks? What's considered unacceptable and acceptable? This is what I have on my Rover, would it be accepted? Obviously, it's not going anywhere. Every spring they have an "Offroad 101" day where you go on trail and get refreshed on towing, pulling yourself out etc. ![]() When I had the Samurai I joined a local 4X4 club. If they're not worried about the black/red chinesium ones, then maybe the risk of breaking in use is pretty low. Since the yeeting would be into the recovery vehicle, I would expect the extraction crew to actually nope out if they see a tow point they know is fragile. That definitely qualifies as risky.ĭefinitely a concern that was very well illustrated recently with a bad recovery accident involving some big 3/4 trucks. I don't want chunks of my car becoming projectiles. What's left of the hook, the tow strap/chain/whatever often yeets right back into the vehicle attempting to move you. When the hook breaks, the energy stored in the line has got to go somewhere. Maybe sell it more as that cheap one is going to tear up your bumper when it breaks and they have to tie on to your radiator support. I know you gotta drive those clicks, but is "risky" really the right way to sell a tow hook? None of this really strikes me as particularly safety critical. A test with a gauge might've been more scientific, but does anyone really doubt just how easily the cheap one broke? I don't care about the flaws in the test, one blow from a hammer exposed that porous, Chinese pot metal (Aluminum?) That's not going to take the forces necessary.Īgreed. Hopefully without deploying any airbags, but keep yer helmet on! Flat Tow Bob (that's a term of endearment) is gonna yank yer ass out of the sand/gravel/tires/woods one way or the other. This whole discussion is why I use old seatbelts or braided cable for tow loops. the OEM hook: different people play at different budgets, and I think it was right to acknowledge the 034 hook is part bling, and part leaving it on the car all the time, but ultimately no better for towing than the OEM hook. So we went with the hammer, as a shock-loaded side pull is super possible at the track: Spin into gravel and you'll get one free courtesy of the track safety workers.Īs far as this vs. The cheap tow hook was so bad it wouldn't have survived even a few seconds of testing. And 2. Simplifying all of it to meet YouTube's demands just didn't seem possible. I did draw up the plans to use the F-250's winch, a tree, a salvage Golf bumper beam, and an industrial force gauge to do some scientific tests without shock loads and without any deflection, but ultimately we decided against that for a few reasons: 1. The hammer definitely wasn't a perfect test, but the goal wasn't to do a perfect test: It was to spotlight what the cheap tow hook was made out of in a very easy to digest way. So we put this together with the three options: Cheap, OEM, and blingy aftermarket. I expected cheap, but I didn't expect dangerous. Some backstory: The idea for this video came when I ordered a tow hook for the 350Z, and was appalled at how poorly what they sent me was made out of.
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