I have the apex overland front recovery points and I need to check to see how big of a soft shackle fits in there.I have SRQ Fabrication front recovery points and a rear aluminum receiver-mounted D-ring in the 6,500# OEM trailer hitch. If I happen to get stuck, the soft shackles are probably a bit too big for the SRQ fab points, but I keep a set of D rings in them at all time and would hook them up that way. I mainly got the soft shackles for hooking up to other rigs, but do want to get one of these for the rear to replace my existing receiver mount and allow the D-rings to be skipped.
Also mounted up the Refined Cycle & Off-road front fire extinguisher mount and a 2.5-lb extinguisher. This is a pretty simple, $50 mount (CNC-cut and powder coated steel), and it fit perfectly (but does require cutting the interior trim - which I used a Dremel for and could have done a cleaner job on).
I got the Refined mount as it was a bit cheaper than other mounts and made here in Missouri. In taking a few short trips, the extinguisher isn't really noticeabe, but I'll probably need to remove it when I sleep inside the GX and move the seat all of the way forward. It definitely seems easy to get to for emergency use (my rig or someone else's).
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For the rear, I have a d-shackle mount for recovery but I also bought a basic metal pin to attach the rope to it.
The pin attaches to the factory hitch without needing a mount.
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