Final Hitch picture

[grantgoold]

After weeks of reading and posting questions, I have finally completed the hitch project. I am very happy with the results and even more delighted that the hitch is a Class V with 10,000 lbs of towing capacity. The local fabricator has offered us custom RV jobs

Anyways, thanks for all the input and ideas.


Grant
Sacramento

[Dreamscape]

Grant, That's a Class A Job! 

Bet you're glad that project is complete. Nice planning too.

That is something I will have to consider down the road. We have a homemade hitch on our Eagle, not sure if it will meet my expectations or not. I have never used it. The PO had it installed when he bought the bus in Florida and pulled his pick up to Ohio.

Paul

[ttomas]

Nice job Grant, I really like it. I rigged one to get me by, now I need to redo it more permanently.  Thanks for sharing  Tom

[ChuckMC9]

Like that rear bumper!

How's about a shot from underneath?

I am two sub-projects away from starting the hitch. Finally!

Congrats!

[DavidInWilmNC]

The hitch looks really nice.  I'd like to see how you have it connected the rails farther forward.  The reason I ask is that the places you have it bolted to are subject to lots of rust.  Basically, they catch and hold water and dirt.  I've seen a couple of pics of that area on MC-8's where those are rested out to the point that they won't support much of anything.  Mine were that bad.  If there's a way to attach the hitch to the rails underneath (a pic would be great!), I can see that the extra support would be good to have.  Did you just eliminate the plate that went behind the original bumper?  Thanks for posting.

David

[grantgoold]

I attached the forward braces to what appear to us to be skid rails. They are 1/2 inch thick stainless steel rail. We did think about rust during the entire project and you see we used POR-15 on all areas of the mounts, rails and of course the hitch. Here is a shot of the braces moving forward on both sides with a 4 inch gusset at the point of connection to the slip.

[Jerry32]

Thats a nice looking job and looks to be able to hold up to anything. I built mine to just bolt up to those skid rails and put it underneath the bumper. Jerry