I'm leaning towards replacing my hard / fixed J's Racing tow hooks with a soft strap.

While searching the web, all I'm finding are NRG tow straps. Who else makes them? These will be for stock bumpers and stock locations.

Any help is appreciated.

 

I/O Port:



Sparco:

 

my problem with the strap is that depending on the angle they tow, it might pull your bumper upwards. the location that it mounts is a few inches behind the bumper and that is where the angle can change.

if it was at the end of the bumper that is a different story.

 

I can pull my strap at any angle that a tow truck will be able to and the bumper doesn't go anywhere.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Where do you guys get the bolt for the strap?

 

I got mine from Lowes. It was the largest metric bolt size they had.

 

I recently installed the SPARCO ones. They are $15 each with Prime shipping on Amazon. Similar to King Tut, I just bought the biggest bolt Home Depot had that had a matching nylock nut. I then ended up having to make a quick trip to Harbor Freight as I didn't have a large enough drill bit! I drilled a hole in the bottom of the front bumper bar. You will need to move the plastic radiator shield to get access to the inside of the bumper bar.

Since I didn't want to add a bunch of washers and increase the sheer force, I also cut away a bit of the black plastic grill at the top so the strap didn't hit it and bind. The bumper remained uncut, however.

For the rear I just used one of the subframe bolts on the driver's side, easily accesses through the exhaust opening that is unused with my single exhaust. The only comment I got during my annual tech is that I may want to add a Tow sticker to make it obvious that is where the strap is.

 

I used the OEM tow hook location front and rear, so I just needed a bolt, washer, and a lock washer. I had to do some trimming of the front bumper bar near the OEM tow hook location to get it to fit though. I looked up the size and pitch of the OEM tow hook on here and luckily Lowes had a bolt. I would have went through the grill opening in the front, but I have something else that will be filling that area shortly.

 

Tow bolt is M12x1.75