[GMCnet] Trailer Hitch [message #112929] |
Mon, 24 January 2011 13:15 |
WILLIAM CASEY
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Coach currently has a bumper type hitch. I want to install a better hitch and am looking for some way to carry a 500# motorcycle on the rear using hitch and if needed more support. Looking to use a channel iron type carrier. Anyone out there done this??
Bill
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Re: [GMCnet] Trailer Hitch [message #112950 is a reply to message #112929] |
Mon, 24 January 2011 15:02 |
Ken Burton
Messages: 10030 Registered: January 2004 Location: Hebron, Indiana
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WILLIAM CASEY wrote on Mon, 24 January 2011 13:15 | Coach currently has a bumper type hitch. I want to install a better hitch and am looking for some way to carry a 500# motorcycle on the rear using hitch and if needed more support. Looking to use a channel iron type carrier. Anyone out there done this??
Bill
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Call this guy.
http://www.bdub.net/blainemerrell/index.html
He makes a through the bumper hitch which I have on my coach. On Blaine's receiver type hitch I carry a 450 pound Honda plus a 50 pound rack that I built. After driving many thousand miles on various trips I can say that I never know that the motorcycle is back there.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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Re: [GMCnet] Trailer Hitch [message #112980 is a reply to message #112929] |
Mon, 24 January 2011 17:57 |
deanandcheriek
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When we got SunnyB she had a fabricated hitch beneath the bumper that dragged and hit most curbs and obstacles. We got Blaine's through the bumper hitch and we now tow a trailer with Dean's Ural GearUp (motorcycle with a sidecar) and extra "stuff". I have to remind myself that it's back there. When we aren't pulling the trailer and need more storage we have one of those bumper racks. We LOVE Blain's hitch. It was money well spent.
Dean&CherieK PortageIN & OrrMN '73 23'PD "SunnyBeaches"
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Re: [GMCnet] Trailer Hitch [message #113020 is a reply to message #112929] |
Tue, 25 January 2011 00:51 |
George Beckman
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WILLIAM CASEY wrote on Mon, 24 January 2011 11:15 | Coach currently has a bumper type hitch. I want to install a better hitch and am looking for some way to carry a 500# motorcycle on the rear using hitch and if needed more support. Looking to use a channel iron type carrier. Anyone out there done this??
Bill
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I have the through the bumper hitch made for our coaches. I must say it fits like a glove. Nice job on the design. Cutting through the bumper was interesting. Not a job for a reciprocating saw. I used a angle grinder with a thin blade and that cut it easily. Tough stuff. If the rear drags, it is not the hitch.
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
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George
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Re: [GMCnet] Trailer Hitch [message #113022 is a reply to message #113020] |
Tue, 25 January 2011 01:02 |
Ken Burton
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George Beckman wrote on Tue, 25 January 2011 00:51 |
I have the through the bumper hitch made for our coaches. I must say it fits like a glove. Nice job on the design. Cutting through the bumper was interesting. Not a job for a reciprocating saw. I used a angle grinder with a thin blade and that cut it easily. Tough stuff. If the rear drags, it is not the hitch.
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I drilled two holes in each bumper half to make the corners round and then cut the bumper on a band saw. The whole cutting job took about 10 minutes. Removing the bumper took longer. I replaced all of the bolts with stainless ones while I had it off.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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Re: [GMCnet] Trailer Hitch [message #113137 is a reply to message #113122] |
Wed, 26 January 2011 07:09 |
WILLIAM CASEY
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Can you send details on it. Bike will likely be 12-15" from rear on coachb.
Is thie OK.
Bill Casey
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Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Trailer Hitch
> Bill,
> Our HD hitc is a bolt on unit and capable of holding the load as long
> as you do not extend the load too far from the bumper.
> This can also effect the handling of the coach if load is extended to far.
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>> Coach currently has a bumper type hitch. I want to install a better hitch
>> and am looking for some way to carry a 500# motorcycle on the rear using
>> hitch and if needed more support. Looking to use a channel iron type
>> carrier. Anyone out there done this??
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>> Bill
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Re: [GMCnet] trailer hitch [message #197944 is a reply to message #112929] |
Sat, 09 February 2013 11:35 |
KB
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Ok, now I gotta ask this question...
I plan to install a through the bumper hitch. But all the
designs I've seen have a plate or such welded to the hitch.
This replaces the original plate at the center of the bumper halves
and is bolted to the bumpers.
My concern is, if somebody hits your bumper, the force will
be transmitted through the hitch directly to the frame.
Without the hitch, the shock absorbers would help absorb
the impact, hopefully saving the frame from damage.
Seems like a better design would have the hitch passing through
the center plate of the bumpers without being welded to it.
Thoughts?
thanks,
Karen
1973 23'
1975 26'
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Re: [GMCnet] trailer hitch [message #197948 is a reply to message #197944] |
Sat, 09 February 2013 12:13 |
sgltrac
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If they hit the bumper hard enough it will move until they get to the hitch with their front bumper beam anyway. The bigger hazard is the spare being rammed through the rear panel. That alone would total most coaches. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Jwit
Sully
77 royale
Seattle
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On Feb 9, 2013, at 9:35 AM, KB <kab7@sonic.net> wrote:
> Ok, now I gotta ask this question...
>
> I plan to install a through the bumper hitch. But all the
> designs I've seen have a plate or such welded to the hitch.
> This replaces the original plate at the center of the bumper halves
> and is bolted to the bumpers.
>
> My concern is, if somebody hits your bumper, the force will
> be transmitted through the hitch directly to the frame.
> Without the hitch, the shock absorbers would help absorb
> the impact, hopefully saving the frame from damage.
>
> Seems like a better design would have the hitch passing through
> the center plate of the bumpers without being welded to it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> thanks,
> Karen
> 1973 23'
> 1975 26'
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Re: [GMCnet] trailer hitch [message #197993 is a reply to message #197944] |
Sat, 09 February 2013 20:47 |
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mike miller
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KB wrote on Sat, 09 February 2013 09:35 | ...
My concern is, if somebody hits your bumper, the force will
be transmitted through the hitch directly to the frame.
Without the hitch, the shock absorbers would help absorb
the impact, hopefully saving the frame from damage.
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Just something interesting related to this, 1978 coaches did not have bumper shock absorbers. They were replaced with solid brackets for the last model year.
Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
(#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
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Re: [GMCnet] trailer hitch [message #198006 is a reply to message #197944] |
Sat, 09 February 2013 23:47 |
kerry pinkerton
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KB wrote on Sat, 09 February 2013 11:35 | ...My concern is, if somebody hits your bumper, the force will
be transmitted through the hitch directly to the frame.
Without the hitch, the shock absorbers would help absorb
the impact, hopefully saving the frame from damage.
Seems like a better design would have the hitch passing through
the center plate of the bumpers without being welded to it.
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Having the end of the hitch unsupported would be a bad idea because of the long lever arm it would become. It would greatly decrease the tongue weight capability of the hitch. Further the rear cross member is a simple "C" channel about 3" tall with 1 1/2" legs...might be 11 gauge (1/8" but I don't think it is). C channels are very weak in twist and unless your hitch was bolted to the C, extended back to tie into the frame, and was really robust, it just wouldn't be much of a hitch.
My 'Henderson Hitch' bolts to the bumper via extended length carriage bolts and also to the rear cross member using extended bolts where the spare tire holder bolts on. Not that makes it any weaker than welding....just removable.
Short of an SUV or something larger, I'm not sure much of anything on the road these days would do much more than self compress upon striking the rear of the GMC unless they were really moving and you were stopped. There is more steel in the GMC bumpers than there is in half the unibodies of most the foreign cars imported.
Seriously, the 5mph bumpers things are a joke. You get hit, something is going to bend or buckle. How much is a function of how hard you get hit and how heavy they are. Physics.
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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