khyros
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Hey all,
So I'm planning on taking my Ranger to one of Michigan's offroad parks this spring. I don't have a ton of off road experience, but I keep finding myself in places where the road isn't really a road, especially on trips up to the upper pennisula. So I would like to build some of those skills up so I have some more confidence when I encounter those areas. For example, I came across a sign that said "if you don't have 4Lo, don't go"... I turned around because I was concerned that even with 4Lo, that means that I might get stuck, especially since I didn't know what I was doing. I figure an off road park will be a good place to get some confidence and grow some skills, so I can more accurately judge if I am capable of continuing or not. Yay for backstory.
Now, onto my community help request. The parks seem to all require a front bumper mounted flag. I can't really seem to figure out how to proceed with that. I don't want to drill into the actual bumper, so I thought that a good place to mount it would be onto the tow hook. The only tow hook-direct mount I'm coming across seems to be just two circular plates that sandwich the tow hook. It has bad reviews online, and seems to me that it wouldn't be that great anyways. Otherwise, it seems that you mount a bracket to the bolts that the tow hooks attach to. Except I was hoping for something a bit more temporary. Any bracket I put on, I'll have to take off in order to fit back into the garage, so I really was hoping against constantly removing the tow hook and retorquing it since it's a vehicle recovery point and everything.
Doing a google and forum search though, I'm not coming up with much of anything. I found a taco guy that made his own bracket to the tow hook mounts, and the Silver Lakes, Mi site that sells that same type of bracket (and flag, which seems to be the right flag to get since it screws the two pieces together instead of just friction fits them)... But obviously our Ranger community is going to have some better ideas that can help me out!
So I'm planning on taking my Ranger to one of Michigan's offroad parks this spring. I don't have a ton of off road experience, but I keep finding myself in places where the road isn't really a road, especially on trips up to the upper pennisula. So I would like to build some of those skills up so I have some more confidence when I encounter those areas. For example, I came across a sign that said "if you don't have 4Lo, don't go"... I turned around because I was concerned that even with 4Lo, that means that I might get stuck, especially since I didn't know what I was doing. I figure an off road park will be a good place to get some confidence and grow some skills, so I can more accurately judge if I am capable of continuing or not. Yay for backstory.
Now, onto my community help request. The parks seem to all require a front bumper mounted flag. I can't really seem to figure out how to proceed with that. I don't want to drill into the actual bumper, so I thought that a good place to mount it would be onto the tow hook. The only tow hook-direct mount I'm coming across seems to be just two circular plates that sandwich the tow hook. It has bad reviews online, and seems to me that it wouldn't be that great anyways. Otherwise, it seems that you mount a bracket to the bolts that the tow hooks attach to. Except I was hoping for something a bit more temporary. Any bracket I put on, I'll have to take off in order to fit back into the garage, so I really was hoping against constantly removing the tow hook and retorquing it since it's a vehicle recovery point and everything.
Doing a google and forum search though, I'm not coming up with much of anything. I found a taco guy that made his own bracket to the tow hook mounts, and the Silver Lakes, Mi site that sells that same type of bracket (and flag, which seems to be the right flag to get since it screws the two pieces together instead of just friction fits them)... But obviously our Ranger community is going to have some better ideas that can help me out!
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