DealMeN

I bought these front recover points off local craigslist. They are in good shape, but the seller had bought off another jeeper and didn't know the brand/origin. He was fairly sure they were bought, not made.

The bolt holes match up to those already on my stock frame rails, with this thing using the existing mounting holes of the sway bar and steering box.

I'm hoping to find install instructions (they are supposed to just bolt on under the sway bar mounts) and a list of required hardware (bolt sizes). Any help you could provide or other knowledge in general on those bolt locations would be much appreciated--the brackets match up to existing holes on the frame rails, using the sway bar mounts on both sides, and the steering box mounts on the driver side. But I'm at a loss regarding the other holes, in terms of bolt size and whether they're already threaded.

Any ideas? FYI, i'm somewhat handy, but not handy enough to eye-ball bolt sizes or tell if the inside of the holes are already threaded...

They actually look exactly like the ones in this tread, but the poster never says where he got them:

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f67/fr...-point-149504/

94XjSport94

Look sorta like the high country ones, but I can't say for sure.

wiggles

They look home made to me..

jmm0122_

I have the high country offroad d-rings and they look similar but slightly different.

ehall

look like high country with somebody else d-ring brackets

these are the bare HC brackets



it looks like the seller put a couple of bolts through basic d-ring brackets and bolted it all up

jmm0122_

After looking at mine again they are exactly the same as those. Sorry, its been about 5 years since I put them on my xj.

DealMeN

Thank you for all the replies. These definitely appear to be Hi Country. Since they're no longer in business, any ideas on how i can figure out exactly the mounting instructions, specifically the bolt sizes? It's easy enough for me to see that all the holes line up, but I'm not sure about things like:

• Do I reuse the bolts from the sway bar mount, or need longer ones (since this add 1/4 inch of thickness)?
• Same question for the steering box bolts on the driver side--reuse or need longer ones?
• For the other mounting holes, what size hardware, and am I just buying bolts that will thread in, or are there nutserts or other hardware i need?

Any help or anything you guys remember from your installs would be greatly appreciated!

DigitalBman

Reuse the stock bolts. The bolts are plenty long enough. If it's that worry some then take a bolt out, go to Lowes, and get replacement bolts. Google the thread though, I don't trust the Lowes workers.

Just make sure the shaft is the same length on the bolts. The shaft can be shorter, not longer. And by shaft, I mean the length of the bolt before the threads begin.

I reused the stock bolts when I installed my tow points. When I installed my bumper I used the supplied replacement bolts for the steering box because there was is now a half inch difference, not 1/4.

Hope this helps a bit.

DealMeN

So, after a several PB Blaster hits on the steering box bolts over the last 3 weeks, I finally went to install last Sunday. Without much effort, the rear-most bolt snapped, at or near the treads (3in or so of the bolt are still on the head)...

Any suggestions on the fastest/cheapest way to get this safe again? My mechanic says it's safe enough w/2 bolts until I get it fixed. Frankly, I'm don't feel mechanically-inclined enough to do some of the write-ups i've seen to remove the entire steering box to drill out the broken bolt and install a replacement for the aluminum spacer. Is there anything else I can do? It's a pain for 1 broken bolt to turn into $300 repair if I have a mechanic buy a new spacer and put it in...boo-hoo for me!

wrapstar

Take the box out brake the spacer off and grab it with vicegrips should come right out. I've done it twice steel spacer is like $30 off eBay creepy fab is the guys name

ehall

Yeah I had one break on my original box, just removed the box and twisted the remainder of the bolt out the back.

DealMeN

Any sage advice for not breaking off the other two bolts?

ehall

You can extract them all pretty easily once its out