I'm looking for trailer hitches and found Curt Manufacturing. They have several type and classes. Is Class 3 an over-kill for the VX?
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I'm looking for trailer hitches and found Curt Manufacturing. They have several type and classes. Is Class 3 an over-kill for the VX?
I bought one for $168 on ebay included the ball and free shipping.
I bought the class 3. It didn't come with a ball though. I'm installing it today.
remove part of the cladding to get the 4 bolts you need to remove the tow hooks. (3 on one side one on the other) Use a breaker bar to get more torque the tow hook bolts really stick, You will only need to re-use 2 of the tow hook bolts so test them in the holes and find which screw in the best, Let me know how you thread in the 4 bolts from curt I can not figure how to access the frame.
No need to remove cladding ~ frame is open at end ~ use wire to pull bolts through holes ~ just run wire through hole and out frame, attach bolt to wire (duct tape!), pull back through hole. They give you carriage bolts if I recall so don't need an impact wrench ~ hand crank will do ~ no probs with spinning. Loctite is your friend. Took me about 45 minutes ~ 15 minutes of removing brackets, fishing, torquing bolts ~ and 30 minutes to drill four holes! Hope you have a sharp drill bit ~ that frame is stout!
I have new drill drill bits etc. Just could not see where the feeder came out. You did much better than me. I will not going into the several embaressing things I did to add time.
Next time you are in town I can show you how I did mine.
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I'd say Class 3 should be the ONLY class... anything less would worry me too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdm monkey
It's like driving stick verses auto. If you can drive stick, you can drive an auto... but you can't necessarily drive a stick if you only drive auto.
Better to have more capacity than less, when needed.
Wow. I made that complicated.