GEN 2 Anyone Painted Tow Hooks - Front and/or Rear?

[Dacam]

By chance does anyone know the pull weight rating on the front and rear tow hooks?

 

[Loufish]

By chance does anyone know the pull weight rating on the front and rear tow hooks?

Not a bad question....however hard to measure how much pull when getting unstuck, or helping someone else get unstuck...I carry a 10ft bridle made of Kevlar rope and planning on using that to pull with to share the load between both hooks....

If you know the Tensile strength,(lets say 125,000 psi) and the cross section of the bolt, (lets say .700 sq. inches) you can figure out the strength (125,000 times 0.700) of that bolt for its size,(in this example about 87,500 psi) then multiply that by 0.60 (single shear is about 60% of Tensile strength) and the multiply that by 2 (60% per bolts, 2 bolts 120%)
In the example above the 2 bolts would shear at about 105,000 lbs...now there is no safety factor in this raw example...which is usually at least 3:1....
BTW for the example above a bolt with 0.700 sq inches is about a bolt around 1" in diameter...our bolts are much smaller...

 

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