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technerd
After years of dissing pintles I finally realized what was being done wrong. The cross-sectional OD of the lunettes are typically too small. Like this one:
See how much gap there is between the lunette loop and hook of the pintle? It should better fill the opening in the pintle. There has to be some gap for it to work right, but that gap is excessive and likely makes a lot of noise.
Compare the above pic to this:
Still has plenty of operational clearance, but way less opportunity to make noise. It wasn't until I bought the ring above that I realized that there are differences in the cross-sectional OD of lunettes. I though there was some std. out there that made them all the same. Not true. I now have a lunette like the one in the first pic destined to be recycled.
On the Bronc-up I will only have a pintle hook. I'll be able to tow anything that I need to tow with it and can drop a snatch strap on the hook, then close and latch it faster than I can deploy anything with a shackle.

See how much gap there is between the lunette loop and hook of the pintle? It should better fill the opening in the pintle. There has to be some gap for it to work right, but that gap is excessive and likely makes a lot of noise.
Compare the above pic to this:

Still has plenty of operational clearance, but way less opportunity to make noise. It wasn't until I bought the ring above that I realized that there are differences in the cross-sectional OD of lunettes. I though there was some std. out there that made them all the same. Not true. I now have a lunette like the one in the first pic destined to be recycled.
On the Bronc-up I will only have a pintle hook. I'll be able to tow anything that I need to tow with it and can drop a snatch strap on the hook, then close and latch it faster than I can deploy anything with a shackle.