85gijunk4x4

I toyotally prefer 2 tow hooks. They bolt right on if you can steal them (not literally) from another Toyota. I have atleast 5 laying around for all my future trucks too.












Its makes recovery so much easier and safer to bear the load over 2 hooks in a triangular configuration, assuming you're using a rated sling to a single shackle on the tow vehicle.


Not to mention when youre being flat towed with a hook on either side, it keeps the truck straight and pulls the load evenly, instead of pulling from one side and having the truck pull bad.

MudHippy

Not the best idea. It puts a lot of lateral force on the hooks. Forcing them inwards towards each other. The bolts, and/or frame rails, can get bent out of shape that way. Don't ask me how I know. I've found it best to just use one hook, or the other. Whichever one's more convenient. That way, if things get bent(and they still can/will), it's only one side and not the other. Using 2 together is not always better than just using 1. They're rated for 10,000 lbs. each. So using both at once is major overkill anyway.

A little corrective steering while being towed is easier than hammering/replacing things that get bent/broken from doing it that way. But maybe that's just me.

85gijunk4x4

Glad you mentioned that. Ive always had that thought but never really paid much attention to that. I do know they get forced sideways pretty bad and now I realize how single-hooking it just pulls straight forward.


Excuse my ignorance everybody. I believe I have learned something new today.