Hello all! The Factory Mopar Hitch on my 01 Cherokee is a goner. The square tuber is falling apart (rust) and the brackets are chunky rusty. The mounts are still good and I can easily pickup a pair of heavy duty brackets from JCR. My only question is the Receiver/Hitch itself.

If at all possible, I'd like to go with a Factory Replacement just because it has the plug wiring box in place. If its anything I can't stand is a floppy plug zip tied to the back of the hitch. A Curt or heavy duty Hitch would be awesome, unfortunately I can't find anything with a plug box.

BTW - This is what I have currently installed:

http://images1.americanlisted.com/nl...ge_9439951.jpg

Any help or suggestions would be great

 

Why not pull the box off of the old hitch and put it on a new one? That way you dont have to pay $5000 dollars on a new factory hitch.

Also, there are plenty of other mounts you can use for the wiring that go onto the hitch/body.

 

^^This^^
Also I know that they do sale the wire box separately. If I am not mistaken I picked one up at a U-Haul rental center a few years back.

 

Junk yards are full of them...

 

No, the whole Hitch/receiver square bar needs to be replaced. The plug guard is welded on. I approached an online Hitch store and apparently finding something like this to install onto a Hitch is almost impossible to find



These aren't integrated into the Squarebar, they're drilled and installed. Interesting that the hitchstore.com and a few others said that they don't carry anything like this and that I should just do what every one else does and just zip tie the female connector somewhere around the gas tank and let it dangle

 

Another example.....

 

My father has one of those on his taco. I'm pretty sure he got it at tractor supply.

 

Junkyards up here arent.. and if they are, you cant pull a little red wagon with them. I removed the stocker on my wife's XJ with a hammer.