Drilling one of Pressbrakes x-members

Either way its gonna get done, and I have a bloody ace x-member. If I had more time I would have sent the towing bracket down to pressbrake, but I couldn't wait that long, needs must!

muddybootson said:

Correct again

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Twice in one night, this calls for a celebration :5bcheers2::beer2:

sounds like a regular tow hitch bracket, took one off my defender for the rebuild and have the same holes on the galvd series chassis,

right angled piece fits under the chassis and bolts into pre tapped holes, two large bolts through the rear x member, usually has 2 removeable braces that bolt to the chassis further back

similar to this but without the dixon bate style runners , can get em to suit regular and military rear hole spacings

Land Rover - LR007221 - Adjustable Tow Bar Defender 90/110 | eBay

Cheers Steve

ebbadger said:

sounds like a regular tow hitch bracket, took one off my defender for the rebuild and have the same holes on the galvd series chassis,

right angled piece fits under the chassis and bolts into pre tapped holes, two large bolts through the rear x member, usually has 2 removeable braces that bolt to the chassis further back

similar to this but without the dixon bate style runners , can get em to suit regular and military rear hole spacings

Land Rover - LR007221 - Adjustable Tow Bar Defender 90/110 | eBay

Cheers Steve

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No its a home made job with extra holes either side of main tow bar fixings, perhaps he will post a pic

pressbrake said:

No its a home made job with extra holes either side of main tow bar fixings, perhaps he will post a pic

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Its not that bad, in fact now that it's off and and stripped back to the metal it looks pretty good, will post a pic later.

muddybootson said:

Its not that bad, in fact now that it's off and and stripped back to the metal it looks pretty good, will post a pic later.

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home made doesnt mean bad, it means not standard!

muddybootson said:

Oh right, didn't know about that, here is a link for anyone else that wants a look;

Rotabroach magnetic drills and Rotabroach cutters.

So I'm guessing those will fit a regular drill then, and that the hole/drill bit would still need to be lubricated whilst cutting?

Cheers for that Clive, do you recon you could make those other bits I asked about??? Cheers

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just seen your message, it had gone to spam so yes

Cool cheers.

Ok, pics as promised

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Ok, that didn't work....





Im getting a weld put up the side of the recover point and the towing plate.

that hitch looks like half of a removable tow point Have you got the other half??

definately a home brewed job but still looks designed to fit the 3 standard captive nuts underneath the x member.... as suggested drill in situ, with the thickness of pressbrakes member Im sure you could just tap the holes..

the three standard tapped holes look in the right place on my x member but clearly the x mermber face ones are well wide

Cheers Steve

redhand said:

that hitch looks like half of a removable tow point Have you got the other half??

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When I first got the landy it had a nato hitch on as well as the towing bracket. I had the nato hitch taken off as it got in the way when uncoupling the trailer (I had a ball hitch at the time, now a pin and eye hitch). I sold the nato hitch ages ago, sorry.

I don't like the look of that as a towing bracket!!!!

meego said:

i don't like the look of that as a towing bracket!!!!

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why

meego said:

I don't like the look of that as a towing bracket!!!!

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Ok, errmmmm, yeah, why? Just aesthetics, or do you not think it is not capable? It is about 8mm thick, so I recon it would be way stronger then off the shelf brackets, especially when welded with Pressbrakes recovery point, that would be 9 blots attached to a 6mm crossmember with backing plates, yeah....must be aesthetics.

muddybootson said:

When I first got the landy it had a nato hitch on as well as the towing bracket. I had the nato hitch taken off as it got in the way when uncoupling the trailer (I had a ball hitch at the time, now a pin and eye hitch). I sold the nato hitch ages ago, sorry.

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No I didn't mean that I meant have yo got the other half that the towball attaches to??

it just looks to me like a dixon bate hitch bolted to the underneath of the chassis instead of the rear face. I was wondering how the towhich attaches to the bracket??

muddybootson said:

Ok, errmmmm, yeah, why? Just aesthetics, or do you not think it is not capable? It is about 8mm thick, so I recon it would be way stronger then off the shelf brackets, especially when welded with Pressbrakes recovery point, that would be 9 blots attached to a 6mm crossmember with backing plates, yeah....must be aesthetics.

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just dosent know good looks is all. But some washer under the nuts then weld the nuts to bolt so if it ever need removing you can get it off easier

redhand said:

No I didn't mean that I meant have yo got the other half that the towball attaches to??

it just looks to me like a dixon bate hitch bolted to the underneath of the chassis instead of the rear face. I was wondering how the towhich attaches to the bracket??

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Oh right, yeah I know what you mean now, I will get a picture up later, easier then trying to explain!

Thor1950 said:

just dosent know good looks is all. But some washer under the nuts then weld the nuts to bolt so if it ever need removing you can get it off easier

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Cheers

Ok, here you go;

So it looks like a Dixon plate, but its not, its home made and again 8mm thick;



And here the two holes at the top have m8 or m10 bolts through which attach into the towing plate, its a tight fit to get the "Dixon" plate into the top towing plate (have to use a lump hammer), and the arms from the plate (which are coming off to fit new arms as the arms are ****e) have two bolts each.



And Meego, its all getting striped and painted again to make it look pretty

Looking at your photo's, it doesn't look like you will have much room for nuts and washers for the M16 bolts in the front, due to the thickness of the cross member material. I,m only looking at a photo, and giving an opinion..