Curt hitch - report from towing section
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Judging by the hitch drawings they sent me that is correct.
Bolts pointed down.... d'oh!!! Yep, that'll work. Worst case I may need to loosen the tank to shift it enough to get the bolts in place and then tighten everything down, probably using a crowfoot on the bolt heads. That big tank is a pain in the butt in some respects... NO BODY makes a gas gauge sender for it, the closest one I think is a 33 gallon sender.
Bolts pointed down.... d'oh!!! Yep, that'll work. Worst case I may need to loosen the tank to shift it enough to get the bolts in place and then tighten everything down, probably using a crowfoot on the bolt heads. That big tank is a pain in the butt in some respects... NO BODY makes a gas gauge sender for it, the closest one I think is a 33 gallon sender.
check these out.
Part one
https://youtu.be/FUNMcLN3xLc
Part two
https://youtu.be/k0_rN-9D9tY
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and just to close out the thread.... never did get around to the hitch, decided that the tow capacity is just too low as is and it will wait until I do something silly like changing the gearing. Haven't towed anything heavier than a car on a front-end dolly since I bought it, so no pressure and other things (like house flooding) got in the way. (However, I did get the gas gauge issue addressed - tank reads over full for the first 9 gallons, takes another 10 to hit half full, still has about 9 gallons left when it shows empty - so its response is pretty linear and predictable. Good enough.)
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