ohh i liked look of stock as well. but i bought subaru for that "subaru AWD" part of it .so i made it practical as well. and inside its pretty much stock as it was made. i still can say : this is how outback can drive places it can drive and take me. it dont need mods lockers or other parts to help it do that. and thats great for me. it just works. i wont lift it more or do more with it. now i can recover myself from bad situations even if im alone and i can just have fun and drive to places. that was my goal with this car.
bought couple 3.25t omega shackles and kinetic rope will be next thing . some 25mm 12m long i think. then will ask locals forester guys to help me test that
still need do some welding to cover some rust holes some places where water mud salt snow could go inside and just damage car more.
still dont have rear recovery points though. thinking of making 2 recovery points on sides as i thought i can or maybe one like trailer hitch thing as most using . not sure it rear is strong enough to hold on when someone would pull me off with rope so must see what i can do there to make it as strong and i can. with that strong places that are left in rear. i can lift car no problem now but pulling by same place can be different story i think. metal tube can bend or even brake if its just holds on 2 bolts and its long tube too. so still got some thinking there or just try something test it then try something else.
as car is in 1 picture it wouldnt go where i go with it now . simple as that. its not forester but i made it similar or better to foresters now .
will all that i still have some questions in my head . like can my car be pulled by that ?
just i would put there something like that
meaning if i make something there as recovery point with hole that i could attach shackle there , can i be pulled just by that tube is it strong enough point or not. i think it can be too long sticking out so if i would be pulled to side it would bend to side, simple as that its just tube and it can bend. so can make it stronger then as put there second tube on top of that to make it like double thick tube and i think if i could weld there tube between them as some trailer hitch they both would make stronger point there do they not ?
im sure i can pull car just as pulling on road by that but pulling car from mud or sand with other car its different story , though all local foresters here just using trailer hitch for all recoveries from rear and they never failed. so now im thinking ok that trailer hitch is just bolted to sides and nothing more. similar to what i could make in rear too.
so what idea of making tube stronger is ok i have just tube ..its maybe not strong enough , but if i put smaller tube inside that and maybe another one inside that one and i weld them together on both ends now i have 3x stronger tube maybe even more.
so my idea was this
and i already made kinda that thing with my kinda home made shackle that is in that picture.
my concern is my tube is not 50mm as they make those d ring shackle adapters as standard. my tube is 35mm . and in it i need to have shackle adapter that should have 18.6mm hole for that shackle pin. now im thinking what weakest point in all that is gonna be .
so as they selling those d ring shackle adapters they are nice and strong but all that strenght then goes to that little pin that locks that adapter to hitch andn there is just normal tube standard thickness,
so all this strong thing just holds on that
i must think on that some more...