REWSTER

i am looking at rear hitches and found a local CL ad with one,and i planed on buying it if its not all rusted up, any way i was going to jack some bolts from work to put this on over the weekend, i went out there and there is the nuts to bolt it up on the right but not the left so i ran a search on here and find out i need "nut strips" any body know if i can get thies from the dealer and the part # for them i called one and he had no idea what i was talking about.

i found this in a search
http://208.101.10.250/~naxjaor1/forum/showthread.php?t=915219





if i make this do i have to make humps in it, this pic looks like it



tell me what to do so i can get some dang recovery on this truck, so i can go get stuck

STROMVADER

Good to hear someone else in the same boat. I just read a thread about a guy snapping his shock bolts in the rear. He stated he used self tappers to remedy the issue. If the right grade of bolt were used, do you think that it would be sufficient for mounting the hitch? I got mine from local PAP off a 97 grand. It has 4 holes for mounting on each side. IDK!! I want to put this phucker on, but don't want my trailer w/ a quad on it passing me up at 60 mph! Any suggestions are appreciated.

Mattpar

as for the smaller hump, there is a small little tab that you can cut. i dont remember about the bigger hump

I would NEVER use self taping screws into the unibody to hold a hitch. The unibody isnt thick enough to give the bolts a good amount of metal to hold onto. Safety First

The dealer still sells the nut strips. i bought them for my Jeep last year. They were decently cheap from what I remember.

REWSTER

yea i think i found a part # on line,left 52001175/right 52001174 so i will call the dealer back mon. when i caled them yesterday they had no idea what i was talking about

found thoes # on mydodgeparts.com


i guess it's a good thing now i can use this weekend to repaint it insted of just slaping it right on

STROMVADER

Hey Rewster, any luck withe the ol' nutstrips? I went to Jerry Springer today, so no quality time w/the M.Falcon.

jd4x426

i used carriage bolts the ones with the square thing under the head and got the 1/4" stell plates withe same square hole in them and you slide them in when id did mine when you tighten them it hits the inside of the frame rails you just fish em in to the holes with a magnet pretty good setup

STROMVADER

Not trying to sound foolish, but pulling the rear bumper+endcaps would probably cut down on skinned knuckles and profanity? I'm putting my hitch on soon and will take any advice that will make it go like butta!

REWSTER

i got the nut strip coming from the dealer to day so ill be doing that this week end

funkle95xj

This is the same way I mounted my hitch when I had one. The PO had a Uhaul hitch installed by Uhaul and they had cut a 2"x2" hole in each framerail so I was able to ditch their crappy hitch and install my Reese Class III by fishing the bolts and steel plates through the holes and zipping them on. No bumper removal needed, but if I had done it myself intitially I would have just pulled the bumper and fished the bolts/plates in that way...