Zack what gears are you running with the 33s?

 

33s are in the garage, 4.11s are being built by Bill at GBR with a rear Ashcroft air locker right now, when the diffs are in, the tires will go on some Terrafirma alloys.

 

On the OP, the recovery pins kits are supplied with 5/8" 3.5t shackles. 3.5t is low for a 5/8 shackle so I'd be concerned about the capacity of the swivels.

 

I was looking into why ARB dropped the recovery points on their bumpers (I have them on my early D2 bumper, but they dropped them on the 03-04 bumper) and found this in a post on Expedition Portal:
"dr350jja
11-04-2012, 01:12 AM
I think ARB dropped the recovery points on most of their new products -- some sorta liability concerns IIRC. Certainly my circa 1996 early-XJ bullbar has them, as does my circa 2009 Gen 1.5 Tacoma bullbar.

This is the email response I got from ARB:
Hi Jim,
the reason that bumper doesn't have recovery points built in is due to the very light nature of the frame out near where the bumper connects to the chassis. Specifically, our engineers designed the bracket to accept controlled winch loads which rarely exceed 10,000lbs, but could not build a system that would work correctly with the crush rates for the airbags and tolerate ****** type loads (which spike extremely fast and often exceed 25,000lbs) at the same time. This is why the factory recovery point is reused since it's back further on the frame and much more robust in design. Unfortunately very few modern vehicles have sufficient structure and strength in the frame horns to allow for solid recovery points to be added along with the bar. You pretty much have to get to fullsize trucks to find a serious frame and rigs like the Tacoma are just too car like in engineering to allow us to include recovery points even when we would like too."

After seeing how much my bumper moves when the winch is loaded, I can believe this. The crush cans on the bumper are pretty flimsy as far as recovery goes. Has anyone had a problem using a ****** strap hooked to a bumper mounted on crush cans?

 

Zack I got the Tow Jaw today and it is f***ing awesome man. It must weigh at least 9 lbs. It is built well. Thank you so much for the link and info It is well worth the money. Tomorrow I have to go buy a drill bit so I can install it. I like that it has a a 5.5 x 2 inch reinforced base. My sales guy rocked, please thank him for me. Love it! Foy any 03 or 04 ARB owners here is the link
TOW JAW ASSM 7,700 LB CAMEL TROPHY STYLE, RNF408, TJA3500 - Land Rover Parts | Rovers North

 

That's great man! I'm glad you like it, it's a no-joke recovery piece. Just make sure you put it to good use!

 

Zack I will do my best lol. Its just an awesome product.

 

Mounted.

 

Looks good AG! May have to do that to mine. The ARB 3432060 for 99-02s has pretty weak recovery points.

 

Aaron -
I know it that was an old post, however, can you tell me what size shackle you are using with this tow jaw? Is a 3/4 inch too big?
Thanks!
Mike