Towing Eyes On Other Vehicles

[jims-terrano]

Something I’ve never really considered before is towing eyes. Yesterday I was helping a friend from work as he needed a replacement engine fitted to his Vauxhall. He’d had a engine delivered to a garage about half a mile down the road but was then struggling to get the car to the garage so have a Terrano what else could I do but play I mean help. We got the car to the garage without any major dramas.
One thing that we found was the towing eye has a left hand thread so screws in anti clockwise. For the life in me I cannot work out why it’s got a left hand thread as it seems so illogical. Then I got to thinking is it the same on other vehicles?

 

[Davey Boy]

Every vehicle I’ve ever had to install a towing eye to have been left hand thread Jim.
Even the Iveco Tesco delivery vans I towed to safety during the snow drop last year.
Davey

 

[macabethiel]

Is it connected to the way cables & ropes are wound?

 

[jims-terrano]

Is it connected to the way cables & ropes are wound?

Ahh that makes sense Ted

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

It's pretty normal now, beleive the thinking is, it stops people just screwing anything in there.

Being left, there is far less chance of an incorrect thread sort of fitting and then breaking loose under tension.

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[don simon]

Is it connected to the way cables & ropes are wound?

It would appear that as rope is pulled, it tries to unwind itself.

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

Is it connected to the way cables & ropes are wound?

HEY, thats a good thought, very interesting!! This is why the forum is so good, it has thinkers :thumb2:thumb2

I wonder if the rear ones are the same?

 

[solarman216]

Nice theory but the untwisting force even on a steel cable would be nothing like enough to unscrew an eye, bearing in mind to ache ave the untwisting element the cable will be exerting much force on the thread so binding it up, also cables are made in both direction twists, the most sensible reason is as Clive says to stop the wrong item being screwed in, Rick

 

[jims-terrano]

HEY, thats a good thought, very interesting!! This is why the forum is so good, it has thinkers :thumb2:thumb2

I wonder if the rear ones are the same?

It’s usually the same towing eye that fits both front and back :thumbs

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

It’s usually the same towing eye that fits both front and back :thumbs

Ah yes :thumb2