Gearbox or Transfer box?

Pulling on to a roundabout today and pop, we lost drive.

Rolled across the exit and pushed it into a petrol station forecourt. 

The AA have been summoned and we are awaiting recovery. 

Let's see what comes next....... 

Tow bar fitting.

When I bought Rusty it was my intention to build and off road him to be enjoyed as a formidable machine with all the bells and whistles.

Well a winch and HD low line bumper were added along with a second alternator, life kind of got in the way of diff locks, now life demands more of Rusty than off road toy and now he must earn his keep with a tow bar, I never liked a tow bar, they always get hung up on rocks and act as a plough in mud, but needs must.

First the jate rings for recovery have to come off, these can be awful as the bolts rust in the tubes and can be a real pain.

My bolts came out no problem at all, I left the nylocs a little loose and the rings could swing freely and so never seized thankfully. 

I fitted a heavy duty galvanised steel tank guard yonks ago, it needed a little trim to let the bracing arms into position to be bolted up.

Grinder out to slice and dice. 

Tow ball time, this tow ball has followed me from my old red V8 petrol Discovery from 2010, about time it got put to use. 

All the bolts were torqued up and then it just needed me to fit the lighting socket along with some extra reversing lights, the Discovery is plug and play with a purpose fitted plug in the loom and you just feed the cable up and plug it in, reversing lights will be on a switch at the instrument binnacle when I have a bit more time, but I opted to fit the tow socket to the bumper to keep it up out of the mud and spray that is the cause of so many problems with towing electrics. 

I calls that done, thanks for looking.