rangerruck

I am looking at the thread that shows the love on first gen 4rnr's. And then i started looking at the ones with origional front ends, with no extra work on them.
If you look close, you see on the passenger side, the front frame D-ring and snap wire, for pulling stuff, but not on the driver's side. What's the deal?
Has all the ones on the driver's side just been knocked off somehow? Have we pulled them all off? Or do they not come with the vehicle, and we just
never noticed?

yoder519

are you tlaking about the hooks on the front under the bumper? if you are... im perdy sure all of them came stock with just one trucks and runners

littlecommando

yes, there just one hook on the passenger side, look in the manual, it shows it there

if you think about it, why would you need more than one?

rangerruck

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...t-best-120015/

for instance, 2nd pic down in this thread, dirty AQ$ss truck, look under the time stamp, under the 04, clearly the d-ring is there, but you do not see these on the driver's side, ever. Or not that i have seen yet...

rangerruck

I would think you would want two, for nice , even pulling with a strap, or to put a pull bar through both, and pull from a fixed bar.

Tubbyfatty

I dont have any...the PO must of taken them off for some stupid reason....

Anyone know the bolt size off hand? I wanna take my neighbors hook off his 4runner. haha. Dont worry, ill leave him a few $. lol.

toyota4x4907

there are "d-ring holes" on both sides. The passenger side just have another hook on it.

scuba

Those arent really dring holes on the drivers side, its wayyyy to thin..Its more like a tie down for tow truck drivers...Thats why us yota owners take em off

91Toyota

Be glad your 4wd's came with "1" hook. My 2wd came with two thin metal loop holes. Pretty point-less actually. lol

toyota4x4907

thats why I put quotation marks around it.

kinzer

wrong! my 89 pickup came with two, on the passanger side was a loop and the drivers side came with a hook and a loop. guaranteed stock, but then i put two chrome hooks on... i might have some pics ill post in a min

Tubbyfatty

Besides a junkyard, where do you think i could pick some hooks up? 4WD/off road shop?

kinzer

oops, ok i was wrong, the hook is on the passanger side, but i know for a fact theres a loop on the drivers side even though you cant see it

scuba

Yeah fatty, try orw or 4wp, Look into the SDORI shackle hangers, I really swear by them...Oh, alright, ill post a picture They bolt right into the factory tow hook locals...

slosurfer

Yep, they came stock with 2 THIN metal loops and 1 hook. Like said before, the hook is for recovery and the loops are tiedowns.

I always cringe when I see a D ring hanging from that thin metal loop. Like Scuba said, SDORI makes some nice ones, and you can also just grab another hook from a JY to put on the driverside.

rdlsz24

When I first bought my truck I thought that a hook was missing so I bought one on eBay and mounted it up lol.

Rob

91TPU

they have hooks at any parts store...advanced, napa, autozone, etc...i have three of them sitting around waiting to be put on the runner

edit-both yota's i have had had them mounted on the passenger side....nothing on the drivers side...

oldschool4runner

I have bought two new pick-ups, 81 and 85. They both came with the passenger side hook and had holes in the driver’s side frame for a hook. Also, the valance below the bumper had a small notch on the passage side for the hook, but not on the driver’s side.
Somewhere in the world Toyota must have used the driver side hook holes.

mt_goat

Thank you waskillywabbit for fixing that title, that had to be the worst title I've seen in a long time. Peeps please try to have some hint the subject in the title.

Tubbyfatty

I love how napa has 5 different selections for tow hooks, all of them are the same but 2 are chrome (yuck) and there are 4 different prices. Haha.

Heres a pic, because everyone loves pics.