Tow hooks

[Moncha]

You can mount 2 tow hooks, the holes are there. I got an additional tow hook and had a machine shop cut it, flip it and weld it. Then had them powder coated.

How's the strength and trustworthiness on doing this?

[navistar]

I had the welding done locally at a high end machine shop. It looked perfect before powder coating. They didn't give me any kind of guarantee. I have never used the hooks for anything so for me it's just for symmetry.

[navistar]

How's the strength and trustworthiness on doing this?

Scott,

You make me pause and think. Would this tow hook ever cause someone to be hurt? As I said before, it's just for symmetry and it's solidly welded and very strong but is it completely trustworthy? No, nothing is. I would rather remove it than ran the risk. And that said, I am not encouraging anyone to do it without careful consideration. What would be the stress placed on this lone hook during towing: Tow truck tows VX out of a 30 foot ravine through the mud and across the asphalt to be loaded with all the wheels bent and locked up.

[samneil2000]

If you left it stock and mounted it without modding, would it fit? I think it would just face the same direction as the passenger side, so it wouldn't look as good. But, it would be safe for use (providing the proper bolts are used to mount it).

[SlowPro48]

Navi here's what you do - send me that menace-to-society tow hook you've fabbed up and, in exchange for the hook, I will create a mold of it and make a rubber tow hook for you. That way I get a hook that, although it might not withstand the shock of being yanked by a chain, would surely be capable of securing a 40 pound boat to the top of my VX - and you get a sense of symmetry without endangering the public! Deal?