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The Valley Ant
I am wondering if anyone on here has attached a trailer hitch to their Abody? I've got a 73 Valiant and wouldn't be hauling anything bigger than a Dixon ZTR mower. Pics or technical advise would be great!
I put a trailer hitch on the wife's 67 Dart. Love it! It came off of a Jeep Cherokee in a junk yard. $40.00. Good Luck!The dealer-installed Mopar hitch attached to the trunk pan and the rear bumper. It was a light duty hitch so don't try to pull a 40 ft. Airstream.
It's raining outside riight now so I will get pics tomarrow. I did not weld. If you measure your rear "frame" rails (Across where your gas tank is) it should equal approx. 36". I just took a walk in the junk yard (with a tape measure) and a little idea of what I was looking for, and found a class III hitch that had a 36" width, approx 2" drop. The only things I found with that general hitch size was the Jeep Cheokee. Class III too heavy, class II better but I am sure not to overload. I took a pipe for a breaker bar, a can of Krol (or wd40/liquid wrench & ATF mix) and wrenches/sockets, tape measure to the junk yard, found & removed. Took about 2 hours including fishing out MOST of the old hardware from mouting on the Jeep. To install, I knew it would only be hauling a bike rack or utility trailer, so I had to move out further on frame rails, did not use the last mount hole. 4 total on each side about 2" apart on mounting plate, I used the back 3 on each side. The hardest part of instalation was fishing the hardware out of the old and into the new. This was without drilling except 1 hole on each side.(I'm lazy!)'64, that's good info. How about a pic up underneath? Did you have to modify anything to make it fit? What does it attach to? What year Jeep was it? That sounds better than reinventing the wheel!
Thanks,
C
How'd you do yours?I had to have a hitch also,what good is a "waggin" that won't haul anything?the slanty will haul anything but........(you know) LoL
Wher did those pictures go? I took mine in the rain!I have a 76 duster that I think has a factory hitch. Did you need some pictures? Tom