I am trying to figure out a way to mount this hook into my hitch.

Not this exact one but close.

If i drilled a hole through my hitch, and put a 7/16x4" bolt through the hitch and through the hook would it be strong enough? Its a 2" receiver.

Like this:


So what do you think? I could even use a grade 9

 

if i'm reading this site right the chart near the end a 0.3750 a little heavyer than 7/16 has grade 8 bolt has about a 10,000 sheer strength so i think it would work

http://www.rockcrawler.com/techrepor...ners/index.asp

 

Good chart thanks a lot! I may just go with a grade 9 just because I have easy access to them. I would have bought a receiver with a hook already on it but i already had this hook. Im gettin ready for winter and pullin people out already...

 

lil more but WAY worth it... http://www.4wheelers.com/warn-receiv...vis-p-997.html

 

I actually just shove the eye of the snatch strap into the receiver, then put a hitch pin through. Worked so far.

 

yup..thats what i'd do. cheap, simple, it works, and you dont have something hanging out of your receiver. putting something in there to attach the strap eye to is just another component to fail...

 

Thats exactly what i wanted but i didnt want to spend the money when i dont really have any to spend in the first place.


I thought about just putting the strap in the hitch and then using a pin. But this was just cooler .

Ill just get a grade 9 bolt for piece of mind.

 

Actually, be careful using that chart in this case. Your bolt won't be in pure shear. There will be bending moments involved also, since your pulling force won't be right at the inside walls of the hitch (I assume that the hook you are using doesn't fit snugly in the hitch.) This is the same case as putting the end of the strap in the hitch and shoving a pin through. 99 times out of 100 it will be fine, but it's that one time that somebody is really stuck, and you decide to try to use the snatch technique that your pin will fail. Spend the $30 and buy a proper tow-ring and shackle.

 

it will work fine, you wont shear that, and if it starts to wear out, it's cheap to replace

 

FYI, hitch pins are 5/8" diameter w/ shear strength of ~31,000 lbs:
- http://www.rv.net/forums/index.cfm/f...d/19574789.cfm

If using the smaller bolt, probably a good idea to test it out a few times and check for any bending in the bolt. Might also want to get a bolt with enough unthreaded length to pass clear through the receiver.

 

This man speaks the truth. Note that this can be a life-death decision. Do you really want to be hanging on the edge of a trail and not know for an ABSOLUTE fact that your atttachment will hold?

Note that a GRD8 bolt is considerably stronger than a hitch pin. I think this method is somewhere in between a true shear (like the tight fitting receiver inserts) and a bending moment (like using the hook). If you're going to use the strap in the receiver hole method, spend the couple bucks and get a 5/8" grade 8 bolt ...

 

Thanks for all the information guys, i will use a 5/8 grade 9 bolt.