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Actually "they" didn't go away from this rigging - it was done to ALL the M816s that the Aussie Army had - ironically, the operators didn't really like it so it was pretty redundant other than for hanging the hook on! I understand it was supposed to be for rigid (a single straight) bar or "A"...
Well it looks like we are too late, you have already mounted it! BUT, it does look like a secure, simple mod so 'well done'. Get your trade mark on it quick.
The only comment I would add is not to put attatch hook directlyto the shackle, but add a 'weak link' - as per the original cable...
This may help.. A very helpful S/S member recently went to a big truck breakers for a '70s part I needed, then blamed me for costing him a bunch of beer tokens when he spotted 'had to have' work lights off of municipality plough/work truck - since they were also '70s, they were steel. (No...
When i was in the UK - there was something like strip grommet, various cross section sizes, sold by the inch or foot, just fit to empty hole and cut to length, but I haven't seen anything here like that.
I have used old hyd return hose or fuel hose and slit lengthways, but that is not a...