How hard is it to fit one of these to your tow vehicle, any special skills required?

Hi Gary The main skill you will need is strength to lift them they are heavy. in the garage we usually used 2 people to fit them, depending on the vehicle you may have to drill extra holes I was only fitted them to Fords ( dealership) Certainly a strong towbar. If you are mechanicaly inclined should be no prob. cheers Daryl.

yep I agree with that, a lot easier with a pit or hoist as well, bit awkward on the ground, a mate helps a lot but can be done alone with jacks and or car stands

I think he wants to know about the hitch rather then the tow bar. First you need a hitch receiver style tow bar - the one with the 50 mm square socket to take the tongue. Do you have this already? If not then the previous two replies mentioned the effort necessary to install one of those.

If your hitch receiver is not a Hayman Reese one, the HR ballmount shank will not fit into it. The manufacturers OEM ones all have rounded corners in the hole. You will need to take an angle grinder to the corners of the shank and round them off enough to fit the socket.

Once you have the ballmount fitting into the receiver then you just follow the instructions in this link

If you have a modicum of mechanical skills there will be no problems. Its just fiddly, like a mechano set.

-- Edited by PeterD on Monday 16th of November 2009 05:47:00 PM

yep sorry Gary, I misread the post, cant help there!

With the old van we didn't need the weight ditribution hitch but the new one we do .
Have been quoted nearly $800 for a new one fitted,
on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290369981572

buy now for $550 or wait for auction to finish.

Aha now thats much clearer !!

Gary why dont you put in a bid of say $500 then I am sure you would get it! I cant see it going any higher! that shouldnt be a problem to fit if you already have a hayman reese hitch surely?

PeterD wrote:

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Once you have the ballmount fitting into the receiver then you just follow the instructions in ]this link[/url]

If you have a modicum of mechanical skills there will be no problems. Its just fiddly, like a mechano set.

-- Edited by PeterD on Monday 16th of November 2009 05:47:00 PM

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Thanks Peter, the link doesn't work

 

Ballsed that one up didn't I

Try this one for the fitting instructions http://www.haymanreese.com.au/consumer/products/wdh/WDH_Installation_Instructions.pdf

G an K, If you have a WDH with cams make sure you set the cams up exactly the same. I took my WDH off my Cruiser to show a mate how the cams worked at his place and put the unit back together in the half dark. 3000K's later I noticed the bottom bolt on the hitch appeared to be bent, I had tken the hitch off to go thru a creek, on closer inspection the lower bolt (around 3/4in Diam) was only hanging together by a piece of metal the thickness of your finder nail. A 750Km round trip later I had new top and bottom bolts. If the cams are not lined up correctly the setup acts to shear the bolt. Peter