I got those two tow hooks on the front of mine also. But they are way down there. You'd have to dig through that clay muck while laying down to get to them. Wish there was a higher towing point up front.

A higher towing point than the height of the chassis tends to pull the front of the vehicle further down into the mud.

Keep digging for the low towing hooks and instinctively you will realize that the tension on the cable will help lift the vehicle out of the mud.

I have recently made changes to my Photo Albums.
I would like to edit all my photo links, how can I do this here?

Each and every one manually...........

No real editing facilities like that exist to do "batch" conversions, but you could try using the search function to search for the buried URL's, (using the old photo albums website URL up to your album name, with a wildcard "*" after the namee). I am not really sure it will find them though.

Not being nasty, but the problem is "your end" not "our end".

nooooooooooooooooo ooonnnnnessssssssssssss heeeeeeeeereeeee,
the hooooooouuuuuusssseeeeeeeeeee is Emptyyyyyyyyyyy,

have not worked on my rig no problems, my in-laws let my stepson drive about a 100 miles away to put up there daughter, ( who is handicapped) was at a bus stop, was told the late bus driver missed her bus for her and the next bus going her way was in 10 hours. my in-laws went with my stepson to pick her up.

My wife got a call at 8:30pm that something happened to the van, maybe the belt, I would have gone if it was just the belt, but we had it towed here. it was the tensioner, $45 and she's fixed, it did not hurt the belt, which would have been another $25-$30 bucks, we have and also have towing with AAA, we both have the plus plan, which paid for the long tow. It be nice if our sporty's had 1 serpentine belt and 1 tensioner, heck who knows maybe someone has the mod. they did. LOL

My 1st attempt at a turbo header. This is it's last progress. I haven't welded anything together yet, I'm just cutting and piecing together, No plans, not putting together as I see it to fit. I have been working on this between cars at the repair shop I work at. So I don't know how much time I've put into it really. It's kinda nice cause I feel like I haven't done much of anything. It's been really easy too. I've cut the header as you see and those loose cut pipes you see are actually recycled from the origional Kia Header. I decided to make a log style turbo header as making 4 pipes collect would take more space and (more importantly) this is my 1st custom header. I know there's more flow if I were to put the output for the turbo's exhaust inlet in the middle of the log, but I think the brake master cyl and such will be kinda be in the way. I will probably place that more so to the front of the log. I still am burning oil at the highest RPMS, but WOT at low, mid, and lower high RPMS don't seem to result in smoke coming out the exhaust.. It smokes while i'm at WOT, not after I let off as I thought it may have been, wonder if this means it is the oil rings? In the mean time, I continue making the header. I'll at least give others hope that this is feasable. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />

I had one of the tow hooks on the front of my Sporty tweak and crack the weld after getting stuck on the beach. A F-350 diesel had to yank me after my 4wd stopped working, after I got all the way out there. When I did my body lift, I cut the 2 pieces of square tubing off the frame to make a flat mounting surface. I have since made my own bumpers out of wharehouse shelving cross members. The shape of it fits the body in the rear really good. I just drilled holes straight through and bolted it on. Looks like stock cj bumpers. It's not real strong structurally though. I was thinking of replacing with heavy steel and adding anchor points. But for free, the look good and are good to bolt lights to, even use a hi-lift, but not towing. I'd post pics, but I can't figure out how to post them. Wrench good-computer bad. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

4wd went out huh? did you fix it? probably dry cracked vacuum lines in the fender well leaking and losing vacuum.. disengaging the hubs. Guess number 1.

I just automatically assumed the seals were bad and intend on getting the manual hubs. I did just recently notice the vacuum line coming from the intake was cracked, but it may have cracked when I pulled it off to cap the vacuum. I thought about replacing it to see if 4wd works, but then I can't justify getting new manual hubs to the wife. With my luck, it would work now, but give out when I really need it, just like before. Besides, what's cooler than showing people my "yuppie awd kia" is actually a body on frame, transfer cased, manual hubbed 4x4?

I understand how that goes. I'm married with limited income as well. Just recently done my lift. I pulled the battery out to have better access to the R.F. Strut tower nuts. When I was all said and finished, my radio would'nt power up. And yet my USB thumbdrive still lit up when I turned the car on.. weird I thought.. maybe the ground was poor and it was maybe an unrelated issue to the battery pull.. pulled the radio harness and checked the connections.. all seemed fine. So a bit happy that the connections were all good, I was convinced I had properly condemned the ole radio (yay.. ahem i mean, darn) So just for giggles, I plugged it back in and put the dash back together. But the darned radio powered back up. Lost any justification in replacing it, lol.. oh well.. karma, she's been wanting a new vacuum and when it was just to get one, I fixed the old one.. so i guess it's fair.. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />