Posted by John in La on April 18, 2014 at 07:11:55 from (96.33.136.54):
In Reply to: Is this safe?? posted by John in La on April 18, 2014 at 04:24:55:
Just to clarify........ The hitch is bolted down with 6 bolts (3 on each side)
You can see the rear bolt with the plate. The long end of the plate with the hole in it faces the rear of the truck. Notice he only had one length bolt so he used what looks like a piece of pipe as a spacer on the top.
The center bolt is threw the cross member. I did not think to look at how the cross member is attached to the frame rail.
The front bolt looks the same as this rear bolt and plate setup but the long end of the plate faces the front of the truck.
So basically 2 of the bolts are threw a cross member and 4 of the bolts are only threw a 2x6 piece of pine.
Think about it for a minute........... The weak link is not the bolts and plate. It is the wood screws that holds the 2x6 to the cross members. So basically this hitch is held on with 2 grade 2 bolts. The only thing the other 4 bolts; the 4 plates; and the length of the tubing does is stops flipping of the hitch forward or rearward. In sudden stop that hitch is going to shear those 2 bolts and pull the whole 2x6 off the bed of the truck because only wood screws hold it down.
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