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I’m about to install a front hitch on my 2020 F250. It looks like some cutting of the plastic. I really don’t like the idea of cutting up my new truck. Can those of you who have installed s front hitch post some photos and offer some advice. If so have to cut, I don’t want it to look f’ed up and unfinished.
I was not happy with looks of my cut. I though it would drive me nuts, but it like a ten foot paint job, I only notice it when I try.
Two pieces of advice:
1.Start at the flat lip on the bottom an and cut upward. (I didn't and my cut is too big)
2 If you need to use spacers, cut a slot in them to the bolt hole, so they can be inserted after the bolts are started. This would have saved me hours on the installation, and thirty or so advil the following few days, if I had done it first.
I’m about to install a front hitch on my 2020 F250. It looks like some cutting of the plastic. I really don’t like the idea of cutting up my new truck. Can those of you who have installed s front hitch post some photos and offer some advice. If so have to cut, I don’t want it to look f’ed up and unfinished.
I have not purchased one yet but have been watching a good thread with with pictures and instructions on the Echo hitch that mounts inside the bumper. Sorry can’t be much help with the Curt.
I bought a Curt 31078 from Amazon (last August), right after I got my 2019 F-450 - got it home, unpacked it, marked and cut the front valance (I have a small, Harbor Freight reciprocating air saw) - then the weather got crappy! We did some more camping to finish off the season and it got too cold to do it outside so it's been sitting in the back corner of my garage ever since. I bought it to carry either my front basket or a front bike rack on long camping trips - Mother Nature has NOT been cooperating with the weather either up here in the Northeast!
The Hitch has a pretty good sized flange on the outside as well, so it should hide the cut once it's installed - if you do make any "goof's", the flange might help!
Just an FYI, I attempted to install an ECO-HITCH on my 2020 F-450 yesterday. Yea, that's a no-go. Looks like ford made a change to the heat exchanger. I have an air-liquid small radiator where everyone has a liquid-liquid transmission cooler.
The mounting points are being used by the updated F-450 cooler and will not allow any space for a hitch. This may include any hitch because I loosened the mounting bracket to see if the curt model would work and that puts a ton of stress on the plastic end caps of the smaller radiator. I'll post pics.
I emailed the manufacturer, and I'm not entirely sure if it affects all 2020's or just a 2020 F-450 issue.
Just an FYI, I attempted to install an ECO-HITCH on my 2020 F-450 yesterday. Yea, that's a no-go. Looks like ford made a change to the heat exchanger. I have an air-liquid small radiator where everyone has a liquid-liquid transmission cooler.
The mounting points are being used by the updated F-450 cooler and will not allow any space for a hitch. This may include any hitch because I loosened the mounting bracket to see if the curt model would work and that puts a ton of stress on the plastic end caps of the smaller radiator. I'll post pics.
I emailed the manufacturer, and I'm not entirely sure if it affects all 2020's or just a 2020 F-450 issue.
Let us know what they say about it affecting all 2020 trucks or just the 450 or just diesels. I was planning to get one on my 2020 F250 7.3 gasser (truck still on order). If worse comes to worse I can take my truck down to TorkLift and let them figure it out, as I've worked with them before on new model year vehicles.
I am getting a refund for the torklift hitch. They noticed their error and I'm getting a refund. It seems like this is DRW only. So DRW F-350's and F-450 pickups are affected by this. All other trucks are not affected for the 2020 model year except for tremor (winch) package.
Also reaching out to curt and draw-tite they're aware of the issue as well.
I'll have to fabri-cobble a custom one for my truck for now.
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