Photos of hitch

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I spent the last couple weeks in AK with some busnut friends I met a few years ago, kind of by chance. It's like I've known them all my life. My father-in-law came up with me. Fishing wasn't very good, at least for us, but we sure had some fun fishing, drinking wine, and working on his MC9. We got his headlights working (had a very interesting factory mod on the MC9 headlight schematic on his bus that I had never seen before), hooked up a battery crossover relay between coach and house battery banks, welded up his generator exhaust, and built a nice custom tow hitch.

Here's some photos of the hitch. He has a bit of corrosion to fix in the frame before he can use it, but I think it turned out pretty well.

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nuther photo

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and another...

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another...

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Underbars...

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and the other side...

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and the aluminum cross piece...

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and the bumper on...

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another view...

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and the opposite view...

[Sojourner]

Looking great...fine job.

With the diagonal bottom tubing and already modified frame rails (plate added to side of rail)....it not going anywhere but with bus.

Thanks for sharing photos.

Sojourn for Christ, Jerry

[jjrbus]

NIce set up!!! I use the same mounting points. Instead of tubing and plates I have a 4X6 angle iorn with the reciever welded to the bottom. I have no idea what the tounge weight limitations would be, but I only pull a toad.            Fuel gauge still works!!!!!
                                                                                       Jim

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  Fuel gauge still works!!!!!

Hey Jim!  Glad to hear it. I'm actually somewhat surprised it's still working, but that's good to hear.

take care
craig

[bottomacher]

I sure would like to see how the "underbars" are attached at the front end. Do you have a shot? I also don't see the advantage of a receiver; it seems to deduct  about two or three inches of ground clearance at the rear. I plan to have a flat 1/2" x 3" bar offset to the height of the bumper bottom or higher so I don't have to worry about scraping the pavement on these badly graded driveways that I seem to find so often. I think the only time that would be an inconvenience is when removing the bumper. The rest of the installation seems first class. Thanks for the photos
Don

[bobofthenorth]

I sure would like to see how the "underbars" are attached at the front end.

Mine are attached to plates that bolt on using the same bolts that carry the engine mounts.  That's on a Prevost but MCI can't be all that much different.  Maybe.  They just need to bolt to something such that the bolts are in fore/aft shear.

I also don't see the advantage of a receiver; it seems to deduct  about two or three inches of ground clearance at the rear.

It costs some ground clearance but the trade-off for me is that I can use three different tubes in the receiver - 2" ball for pulling the boat, 2-5/16 ball for the big trailer and the Blue Ox for towing the micro-truck.  If you never change hitches then you are right, something that doesn't cost 3" of tube would be better.