Well then, put a nut and washer on the longer bolt and maybe an eye bolt.
Go to your local loggers' supply and check out the selection of seriously
butch hardware - plenty strong enough to yank a VW van!  ;)

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

>  "Giant tension rod in the front suspension"?
>
> Speaking as a person who knows bupkis about suspension parts, could someone
> point to out the aforementioned item in Bentley?
>
>
> "In the back?  The bumper mounts are plenty strong - if I had a hitch I'd
> replace the bolts with long ones to hook a strap onto..."
>
> I'm thinking about that. Them bolts point down and a strap would just fall
> off. Needs to be some kind of hole or grabby thing down there. Actually,
> even with the hitch bolted on, there seems to be enough room in the loops to
> also hook a pinned shackle to. I'll visit my friendly local off-road shop
> (FLORS) and see what size of shackle can go there. I'll report back. Stand
> by.
>
> -- RJS
>
>
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 17:20 -0700, Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
> More egg-headery - The van's got a giant tension rod in the front suspension
> and that's where I'd pull it from.
>
> In the back?  The bumper mounts are plenty strong - if I had a hitch I'd
> replace the bolts with long ones to hook a strap onto...
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:19 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > At 06:52 PM 5/25/2011, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans wrote:
> >
> >> ok,
> >> what is the tensile strength, in lbs, of a double loop of 4mm thick
> >> sheet metal ?
> >>
> >
> > That's much too general a question to answer, and I suspect you're
> > looking for the yield strength anyway.
> >
> > But on the low end, ASTM A36 mild steel has a yield strength of
> > 36,000 psi.  With a safety factor of four that gives you 12,000
> > psi.  Figuring out the cross-sectional area of this hypothetical loop
> > of metal and looking up data for stronger types of steel are left as
> > an exercise for the reader.
> >
> > Since I'm sure you're talking about usable strength of the Vanagon
> > front tie-down point - remember that unless you are pulling directly
> > in line with both strips of metal, which is not possible, geometry
> > and vector arithmetic enter into the problem.
> >
> > Yours,
> > David
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
>
> 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van'
> 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'
>
> Crescent Beach, BC
> www.thebassspa.comwww.crescentbeachguitar.comhttp://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>
>

--
Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'

Crescent Beach, BC

www.thebassspa.com
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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