warn hitch receiver
 

ok i really have searched here and i can't find where one can actually buy one of these. google is of very little help.

im looking for the black thing, of course:

http://www.4runners.org/images/shack...n_hr_01_sm.jpg

thanks for the image bob... sorry if you didn't want me to link to it.

http://www.4x4rockshop.com/scripts/p...idproduct=2446

$42.95 + shipping. paint it black yourself...

http://www.4x4rockshop.com/ProdImages/warn/29312.jpg

christ, at last. thanks man. already have the paint and everything...

You can get it on Cabela's for cheaper...

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too late!

hey lee!

not wanting to add insult to injury, but mine was free! i made it at work in a couple hours on a saturday morning and it works great! now i have orders from a few friend, got to talk to the boss about getting some material in!

lee

same price. 42.95

my bad, they have free shipping. $42.95 shipped

lee,

no problem linking.

painting: not worth it. paint comes right off :)

bob

i bought mine off of the owner of 4wd shop for 25 bucks. i painted mine and its chipped off now too.

A thick layer of clear coat over the paint has kept mine lookin' good for quite some time now.
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that was gonna be my next question...

thanks. can't wait, theyre on their way right now....

Price has gone up, when I bought mine about a year and a half ago I got it for $33.95 shipped. I'm still thinking about painting mine...sounds like if you clear coat it, it will last.

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I just took a shot of mine (heavy clear coat). This is after 5 months of wear and tear. Not perfect but not too shaby.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/5323/hitch8ef.jpg

those are nice to have and all, but if you're using a recovery strap w/ loops at each end, then why not just shove the loop up into the receiver and just put the pin thru the loop??? that's what i've always done and it's worked fine for me...

but then you dont look as cool when mall-crawling :bigok: :smokin:

























lol j/k

youre both right :laugh:

bama,

You're right about that...but in my case, I don't use it just for getting me or somebody else unstuck. I use it around my property, and when I do that I use a logging chain with a monster hook on the end, for this purpose you can't go wrong with the receiver shackle. Before I found the receiver shackle I was just using the chain loops on my hitch, but that caused some interesting angles to form, the back end of the Runner would loop around and get in harms way and such...this way I just hook up and pull.

But you are right, for looped tow straps this is a bit overkill.

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i actually got the Galvanized Alloy Steel bow shackle from mcmaster's... and it honestly looks used! the orange paint on the pin is all scratched off and worn out.

meh. i dont care, its gonna get that way anyway... i might paint the pin black though.. orange doesnt quite go with my truck :laugh:

Every single D-Shackle that I have ever owned has had some orange/yellow paint on the pins and it has come off all of them by me just picking it up. LoL.

I'm probably just going to leave mine bare metal...unless I get motivated when I take off my trailer hitch to paint it the same color.

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That is a perfectly acceptable way to connect a strap to a receiver. I did this for a while and the only downside I could find is that the edges of the receiver were sharp enough to start fraying my strap, particularly on off centered pulls. I smoothed the edges of my receiver, but not everyone's receiver is worked over like mine was and so I can stick one of these in and not add any wear and tear than is neccessary to my straps. No matter how you connect the strap, just a pin, shackle adapter or pintle adapter, none of it's any stronger than the pin itself anyway.

I used to shove the strap into the receiver and then lock it with the pin. Did that many times. Ultimately though I think that a receiver shackle is stronger. The hitch pin is in double shear when used with the receiver shackle. With the hitch pin alone the pin is in single shear, failing on one side and then bending at the other end allowing the loop to escape. Practically I would imagine this is highly unlikely.

For the larger 3" wide straps or loops covered in leather it can be really difficult to cram those into the receiver. Having a d-ring also offers more flexibility if you need to linkup a snatch block and for use with chain hooks as previously mentioned.

http://www.ne4roc.org/screw_paint.jpg

http://www.ne4roc.org/screw_paint2.jpg

what the heck is that black blob??

you painted the threads??? :hillbill:

yea, i cleared them after though...

tested it this morning when my hitch receiver got here and its great!

Think of it as ghetto thread locker, hahaha.
Looks nice Lee, now you need the front shackle hangers! Damn it, I need those too...*sigh*

How did you go about painting them?

Awhile back when I got my ARB for my 2nd gen I spent 3 days cleaning, grinding, priming and spray paiting some D-Shackles to go on the front of the bull bar...the second that I picked up the shackles and tried to screw in the pins the paint literally SLID off the pins...I got so pi$$ed. Then Corey said that if you bake them in the oven for about 30 minutes between coats that it will work better...the next time that I have to do this I will be doing it that way. Or I may just get some do-it-yourself bedliner coating and mask off the threads and do it that way.

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i sanded a lot of the orange paint off... then just tried to scuff it up a bit. then i took regular glossy black paint (i wanted flat black, but glossy was all i had on hand) and sprayed the crap out of one side... let it sit for 2 hrs, turned it, and sprayed the crap out of the other side :great:

i am gonna put clearcoat on it too... just didnt have the chance to go get it.

Here's how I figured about getting a rear shackle. Im gonna go to Wally Worls and get a 2" Drop hitch. Then go to Nick's work, and get a D Shackle at the discount he gives me. Stick the Shackle ont he Drop Hitch, stick the Drop Hitch in the receiver. DONE. Only difference is the Shackle would be verticle instead of horizontal. I still need a recovery strap (all I have now is a tow strap), and Shackle Hangers up front. Im working on the CB Right now.

ÅÅÅÅ the sahckle idea wont work. The drop hitches have holes that are about 3x larger than the pins int eh biggest shackles I could find. Oh well, Ill have to order a nifty WARN one Monday...

Lee,

Dont forget to zip tie your shackle down through the pin hole and through the shackle itself. On my last run to Death Valley, the shackle shook loose on the Buldog-Yota/Death Valley 500 run.

Bob

wow no joke

i cant even imagine that happening.

i need to ziptie my rear breather extension hose anyhow, so ill do that at the same time.

thanks man.

I run a 7/8" shackle, pin w/ galvanizing is about 1" OD and fits the drop hitch holes just fine. In fact I used to run a 0"/2" drop hitch as my recovery shackle attachment point for many years. I now have a receiver I built that is lighter and more compact.

If you don't want to worry about the issue of paint, just do as I do and leave it in the truck :D

The paint lasts a LONG time that way.

im actually confused on what you mean here.

how the heck did the shackle shake loose? the receiver or the shackle pin?

I think he means the pin shook and slowly unscrewed itself, if you zip tie it to the shackle it can't spin.

I thought you took your running boards off? :0 hehe

ÅÅÅÅ mine did that on the Ashburnham run. When I took it off so Heath could use it, it was halfway off.