Just in the nick of time! Our friend Bryan Crofts of CBMotorsports will be debuting his new Campbell Ent. Custom Fabrication / Campbell Racing Ultra4 Racing car this year at King of the Hammers. The final assembly just completed. Not much time left to get to the desert and shock tune and debug the new car! We love the retro black and gold Trans Am theme.

We will be leaving for Johnson Valley this week as well. We are honored once again to be sponsoring the Tech Tent where all race cars will be safety inspected and the vehicle transponders installed. We are set up right next to the Tech Booth, and just like every year, we are offering free repair on all synthetic winch lines that are damaged during qualifying and racing. The car looks awesome Bryan, good luck and we’ll see everyone Friday on the lakebed!

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The Land Rover Defender has not been available in North America since 1997. After a 23 year hiatus, Land Rover is reintroducing the Defender model to North America in the spring of 2020. This is one of the most highly anticipated new model releases from Land Rover. Compared to the other Land Rover models, the new Defender is designed to be the most capable off-road.

Previously, Factor 55 was chosen to equip winch safety hardware to the recently released Land Rover Discovery 5 Trek edition. Now with equipping the new Defender TReK Edition, Factor 55 has supplied safety equipment to all of the Land Rover teams that challenge the demanding TReK off-road competition.

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A shout out to our friends over at King County Search and Rescue. Whenever people find themselves in imminent danger or distress, SAR organizations like this are ready to respond. This is a 100% volunteer organization serving its local community with Search and Rescue services along with Education.

Take a look at some pictures from this past weekend in Greenwater, WA where they put on a Vehicle Recovery Clinic. In addition to basic safe vehicle recovery techniques, the instructors were also demonstrating the use of snatch blocks along with our new lightweight Rope Retention Pulley alternative for synthetic winch lines.

SAR organizations are always looking for volunteers to help in the community so if you are interested, look up your local SAR group and sign up! Thanks guys for the pics.

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SARpinz | Photo Credit to Celerity Media

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Take a look at a photo that one of our readers sent in. This is a case of poor structural design from a cheap imported bumper company. In this case, the shackle tabs were simply welded to the thin skin of the bumper without any structure on the inside to provide a load path to supporting structures like the frame rails or frame cross member. As we all know, shackle tabs can be exposed to tremendous momentary loads when yanked on with a kinetic rope, etc.. Proper recovery points need to transfer the pulling load through the bumper and to the underlying supporting frame. So, the next time you are about purchase a bumper, winch mount etc, just try to picture the path that the load must take to get to something strong. In the case of bumpers and shackle tabs, make sure you at least look behind the bumper to see some type of supporting structure.

Have a safe and adventurous weekend!

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