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Thu, 04 September 2014 16:47  |
mickey szilagyi
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Registered: January 2013
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We were thinking we had our hitch all figured out until we took it to a welder who does motor home hitches. Our PO had welded a hitch to the rear frame sections of our coach with a ball mounted on a plate just behind the bumper. We wanted to replace the ball with a 2 inch receiver. We were told that the rear sections of the coach frame that extend back from the main side frame rails were not strong enough to support a hitch that we wanted to use to pull a vehicle. He also advised that the welds and supports on the current hitch were not very good either. OK, better to get this worked out now rather than after a wreck out on the road somewhere. So we took the coach to an even bigger well-known welding shop that welds hitches on motor homes for one of the area's largest motor home dealers. They basically told us the same thing and gave us a quote for a welded on hitch involving supports that would be welded to the main side frame rails on back to be incorporated to the cross frame that the rear bumper attaches to. This involved rerouting the exhaust pipe and a few other things. We are now are considering our options.
We are now considering removing the welded on hitch and going to the through-the-bumper hitch that many of you have and use and seemed to be quite satisfied with in hauling vehicles and other large and heavy trailers. However, the through-the-bumper hitches are supported and bolted to the same frame sections that these two welders indicated they didn't think were strong enough to support the type of hitch we'd like - one that we can haul a vehicle with. The capacities for the through-the-bumper hitch used by members of this forum are 15,000 GTW, and 1,000 TW. And it is bolted to the rear members of the coach's frame. Surely we can't go wrong with the through-the-bumper hitch. Can we assume that all the through-the-bumper hitches sold by forum member vendors are virtually the same?
As always, thanks for your comments.
Mickey
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing, MI
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