Tow bar

[PK]

Hi from The Colonies,
I have a JDM model in Australia.
To get a tow bar, I had to buy a Jackaroo (Trooper) one, and have it modified to fit.
All done by a specialist and it cost AU$400 all up.

Good result.

To get our other Colonial cousins to respond, ya'alll might have to call it a HITCH.
They don't speak regular English.

LOL

PK

[VX KAT]

I just got my "hitch" installed last week by LDub.
Are the JDMs structurally different in the, um, rear? Or would the same hitch work for yours?












Are we done out here yet? I'm cold....

[voyeur]

Licked the pic of grinder sparks aimed at bollocks... Modification doesn't look much more than cosmetic but the hitch looks like a serious bit of kit


many thanks for replies tho...


As my last van was a Mitsi Delica LWB the missus is givin me serious grief about lack of space... might look into a roof crate in the mean time...

thanks again


david

[tom4bren]

The hitch is acutally a fairly simple build. I can still have them made if you're interested. I'm not sure why Ldub had to do any grinding on it. I'll find out & make sure the design changes are encorporated in the next build.

Tom

[VX KAT]

The hitch is acutally a fairly simple build. I can still have them made if you're interested. I'm not sure why Ldub had to do any grinding on it. I'll find out & make sure the design changes are encorporated in the next build.

Tom

Dub can give better details but it was something like this:

We couldn't get the hitch to mate up flush with the rear cross member. The forward edge of the angle iron was hitting the gas tank skid plate (or that area). So he was grinding down that edge. That was successful.

But after we got it flush and bolted down, we couldn't get the bottom portion of the rear cladding back in far enough to line up with the bottom bolts. So he was grinding down that front edge hoping to allow the cladding to tuck in and match up with the bolt holes. He didn't want to compromise the integrity of the angle iron by grinding too much off, so he ended up having to leave the bottom bolts off. It's not going anywhere since he got all the others lined up and reinstalled. It's just those 3 or 4 on the bottom that aren't installed.
The cladding looks completely flush, despite missing those few bolts.

[tom4bren]

OK, I noticed on my install that it was very close to the gas tank shroud too but mine didn't hit. Rekin there's enough variations in VX's that I need to provide more clearance.

I couldn't get 1 of my cladding bolts in either. Keep meaning to go back & 'lean' on it a little to see if I can get it to fit.

If I ever quit procrastinating and get busy with the re-design to provide more tongue weight capacity, that problem will go away. The tube bumper that has the mounts for those bolts will go away & I'll have to replicate them into the hitch.

Thanks for the info.

It looks like he also bored out the hole for the locking pin. True?

[VX KAT]

It looks like he also bored out the hole for the locking pin. True?

No, the hole was there as is. I used a locking pin I already had.

And yes, LUNA, this was all about aesthetics for me. Don't care for the Curt style...and I might add it looks like the diaper was full too!