This is not so much a fabrication job, but the discussion on rear recovery points for Jimnys has moved to the front so I thought I'd started this to share with others if they're looking for a cheap, easy and safe front recovery point for their Jimny.
I did this a while ago and just used a rated recovery hook that you can pick up from any auto parts or camping store.
With 2 high tensile bolts, I'm pretty sure they where 120mm long, from memory you can get away with 110mm bolts but the Jimny chassis is not square and one bolt will be a bit short (happy to be corrected if these dimensions are wrong). I used fine thread bolts to get good pressure on the chassis with out crushing it and used nyloc nuts.
I couldn't see a way to get a crush tube inside, but you need to add plates to help spread the load and stop the bolts pulling through the chassis. I cut 2 lengths of 25x3 flat bar for backing plates top and bottom of chassis and drilled to match the holes in the hook.
After removing the front bumper I cut a template of the bumper profile to make sure the hook sat through the bumper far enough to get a strap on without it going too far and effecting the approach angle.
3mm flat bar on top of chassis.
Clamped the hook on with the backing plates. You can see the way the chassis isn't square here.
Hook clamped on with the bumper template.
When I clamped the hook on it hit on the chassis end plate before it sat flat on the backing plate. So I filed down the bottom of the end plate, but was very careful not to touch the weld on this plate. Luckily they use a 3mm fillet weld on this plate.
I don't know if this will help much, but this is where I drilled the front bumper. I used the hole saw that I bought to fit the the snorkel (about 50mm) which worked pretty well and only needed a little bit of filing to fit the bumper neatly over the hook.
I know lots of people try everything to avoid cutting plastics, but I think this is pretty discrete and doesn't effect your approach angle like the bolt on 'no cut' options out there.
At the end of the day you can't snatch off the factory points on the front of a Jimny and there's lots of ideas for custom front recovery points. But I haven't seen too many that I'd be comfortable hooking a snatch strap to. Ideally there should be a crush tube is side the chassis on this hook, but with the 3mm plates top and bottom this is more then safe to get the light weight Jimny unstuck.
