Isn't the tow package supposed to include a hitch drawbar?
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From: Central California
Originally Posted by kidtriton
you dont need to roll your eyes at me. i know what it consists of, i have probably swapped/installed 10 -15 of them since the 04 came out.
trust me, if a ball mount is in there, there is more force transferred further up the frame than without, not as much as before, but still more.
trust me, if a ball mount is in there, there is more force transferred further up the frame than without, not as much as before, but still more.
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Not sure about the reverse sensor... unless that's what all the dings are from on the shipping dock... LOL
I do know it make a real good hook for catching a GMC dully !!!
Got rear ended a while back... a good hit... no one hurt... BUT then she got the bright idea to back up and check the damamge before she got out of the truck... and ripped her lower radiator and cooler lines out. It was all I could do to keep from laughing my head off.
I do know it make a real good hook for catching a GMC dully !!!
Got rear ended a while back... a good hit... no one hurt... BUT then she got the bright idea to back up and check the damamge before she got out of the truck... and ripped her lower radiator and cooler lines out. It was all I could do to keep from laughing my head off.
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From: kinston nc
Originally Posted by asinatra
Then you would know the bumper bolts onto the hitch and the hitch bolts onto the frame, so no matter what the hitch takes the impact. This is of corse only for our new trucks.
There is a cantilever that goes from the bottom of the hitch so that force is distributed to the frame about 18-20" up towards the front to transfer hitch load away from the rear of the frame where the bumper mounts.
If you hit the bumper, it wants to rotate upward and the pockets collapse first. If you hit a ball mount, the hitch wants to rotate downward and transfer the force further up the frame.
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From: SEMN
Yeah I used to keep my reciever hooked up all the time too incase I got rearended and then I saw exactly what kidtriton was talking about and tried to pull mine out. Well needless to say it was pretty well rusted in there. And I could not see any rust at all before. Yep faught that thing for quite some time to get it out. Forget that. I will keep the Ski-doo reciever in there from now on. "Plastic"
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From: SEMN
LOL I forgot to mention that. I thought about that as soon as someone said they liked to leave it in. I totally forgot about that when I just posted. Yeah that is definetly a bad one. I have the scars to prove that one, and so does the old lady!!
