Abstract: The invention concerns an access plate for use in a vehicle to cover an aperture in an engine ring, where the engine ring and an engine cover seal against each other. The access plate may include a main body portion, made of a first material having a first durometer, extending across the aperture, and defining a first portion of an outer surface that sealingly engages with the second component; and a seal, made of a second lower durometer material, wherein the seal portion is integral with the main body portion, and the seal portion includes an underside surface in opposed relation to the outer surface that sealingly engages with first component. The access plate may include snap clips, to secure the plate to the engine ring, locating pins to locate the access plate on the ring, and tapered end features to assure a good seal against the engine cover.

Abstract: An integrated mounting system for mounting the bumper, recovery rings and a selectively removable winch to the frame of a motor vehicle. Left and right mounting plates are attached to the front ends of the left and right frame rails, wherein each mounting plate has a plate aperture. Left and right mounting brackets each have a bracket aperture formed in a planar base and a clevis perpendicularly upstanding in relation to the base. The front bumper also has a pair of bumper apertures. With the apertures aligned, the left and right mounting brackets are attached, respectively, to the left and right mounting plates, the bumper being sandwiched therebetween. Recovery rings are attached pivotally by a connector to each clevis. Removing a recovery ring allows a winch stinger to be received into the bracket, bumper and plate apertures at the selected mounting bracket, and be secured thereto via the connector at the clevis.

Abstract: An adapter defining a transition between a motor vehicle fuel filler pipe having a concentric vapor exhaust passage and a motor vehicle fuel filler pipe having a parallel vapor exhaust passage. The fuel filler pipe having a parallel vapor exhaust passage includes a rigid stem accessible from outside of the motor vehicle, a flexible hose attached to the rigid stem, and a parallel hose connected to the rigid stem by an upper fluid connector. The filler pipe having a concentric vapor exhaust passage includes a rigid outer tube on the fuel tank and a rigid inner tube inside of the rigid outer tube and cooperating therewith in defining a concentric vapor exhaust passage around the rigid inner tube.

Abstract: A tow line arrangement for a motor vehicle that includes a pair of self-storing tow lines located behind the bumper and characterized in that each of the tow lines has a handle connected through a ring at the free end of the tow line so that the rings of the two tow lines can be combined at the longitudinal center line of the vehicle and thereby allow a straight-ahead tow by another vehicle.