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rich weyand
10-10-2011, 10:47 PM
Hi All:

Well, I'm now moved to Indiana (in the woods and hills east of Bloomington, west of Nashville), and the work I'm having done to get the house shipshape after a decade or so of neglect is coming to completion. I'm moving on to the "yard". I have some deadfall I want to clean up, but I need to pull it off the cliff and out into the meadow to chain it up. I'm not going to chain it up on a 45 degree slope!

So, I'm looking at putting some tow hooks on the 78 K10 so I can drag these out of the woods into the meadow. I see the tow hooks with the two mounting holes, such as in the LMC catalog. Are those holes in the frame rails already? OK, I'll look as soon as the sun comes up, but I also need to know: Do they work with the stock bumper and trim, or is there a bumper mod? Any issues putting these on, other than not opening up your skull on one when skidding out from underneath?

Thanks for any input, and Happy Motoring!

Rich
tahoe 9955
10-10-2011, 10:55 PM
all the 78 k10s i know of came w/ factory tow hooks check some junkyards or post WTB in autoparts section on CL shouldn't be more than $20 make sure to get the bolts as that is as important as hooks grade 8 or stronger above all be safe
dw01
10-11-2011, 07:09 AM
Rich,
Nice truck! I updated my garage photo today, 1979 K10, that should give you an idea of stock hooks with your bumper.
Regards,
dw01
rich weyand
10-11-2011, 10:20 AM
Where's that 'garage photo'?

I looked at the mounting holes on the truck today, and they are side-by-side, not fore-and-aft. All the hooks I see are with the holes in line with the hook, so that would mean the hooks would mount in sideways, and that doesn't seem right.

Rich
dw01
10-11-2011, 10:33 AM
Rich,
Look over to the left side of this post under my username and it should say vehicles. Click on that and there are two garage photos, click on the photo to enlarge it. Hope that helps, (and works).
dw01
tahoe 9955
10-12-2011, 10:45 AM
glad im not the only one that has to show photos like you said garage nephew will be only to teach me this cut and paste thing i guess i'll have to find the good sissors b4 then lol
dw01
10-12-2011, 10:52 AM
Nice garage photos! There is a lot I could learn there.