Yep yep yep, makes sense to me.

Following along with the idea of drilling down through the front bumper,
the body, then out the bottom bumper to mount a shackle a la Gary Lee's
winch mounting scheme, I have been looking for shackle mounting blocks
or plates. While strong shackles can be got for not much money, the
mounting blocks/plates I've found so far have been quite spendy.

This is moving away from Vanagon stuff, but does anyone know of
affordable decent mounting blocks?

--
RJS

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 07:23 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote:

> 2 reasons to add another hook
>
> 1. existing loop squashed or deformed. (mine is flattened a bit) and
> therefore you don't trust it. I haven't gone out of my way to "Go and
> try to break it", but it sure ain't pristine.
>
> 2. situations where you can only pull from, or access the side
> opposite the stock loop.
>
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 25-May-11, at 10:43 PM, miguel pacheco wrote:
>
> > Back to reality.....Mr Squirrel has made it pretty clear just how
> > aggressive he intends to get. Clearly that 'sheet metal' is adequate
> > for his needs. I can safely guess that most of the people on this
> > list will find that front loop more than adequate. I don't know just
> > where I might fall into a 'study group,' if one ever was created,
> > but I can safely state, judging by this conversation, that I've
> > tested this little loop more than enough to have a damned good
> > opinion of what it can do. I've used it and never wondered what it's
> > limitations were. I've just put it to work and it has never failed.
> > Not like a damned fool, tearing away, shocking the works and so on.
> > That's how you break anything. In any case, I've pulled many
> > embarrassed 3/4 ton pick em up trucks out of the snow banks, with my
> > little old Syncro, over the last 25 yrs in Colorado....with that
> > little loop in the front. So here is my science. Go and try to break
> > it........I have.
> > Miguel
> >
> > Controversial, revolutionary signature line removed as
> > requested........
> >
> >
> >
> >