Thinking about adding a set of these to the front of my truck, Curious strength wise how well these work and what they are rated at. Any one have close ups of mount? Almost half tempted to build something to house these in.
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CUCV Tow shackles
- Thread starter Babaganoosh
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Just had mine all powder coated. There are quite a few brackets that make up the complete mountings. The shackles themselves are worth a few dollars. It cost over $300 to HD powder coat mine. In the picture the only thing that is not part of the front and rear shackle set up is the two bumper supports. I can tell you that the brackets, mountings, and shackles are stronger than the chassis rails themselves. If you want to pull something with those shackles have at it. I left them on my M1009 rebuild just for the "coolness".
They drop them out of airplains with a parachute attached to only the two front and two rear shackles. Is that strong enough? I bet if you tied a tractor on the front and one on the back and started pulling against each other it would rip the frame in half and never hurt the shackle mounts.
Good enough for me.
now where to find some?
now where to find some?
Yeah, I love the CUCV setup. Very tough, but you need your bumper to accommodate it. CUCVs have holes there just for them.
I want to keep my original 82 chrome bumper but incorporate these into it.
Like this?
Yes, just like that I even want to use the same rear blazer bumper on my truck frame.
Me personally, I'd rather have the threaded pin for the shackle (which the CUCV ones don't have) instead of having to remove a cotter pin
