Decided to finally add some good parts to the Libby so of course, I looked for some Chevy parts......
Seriously, I happen to have a receiver that came off my old Chevy S10 blazer and decied a month or two ago to slide it up under there to see how it measured along the frame rails...bingo, the side mouting plate were almost a perfect match. Since I'm layed off, might as well use what I got instead of buying a Libby unit.
Now all I needed was some heavy angle for mounting, coworker took care of that with some scrap angle and cut me couple pieces ( pic 1). The pass side had to have a piece cut out for exhaust clearance, driver's side just needed holes cut. I made couple patterns from paper, marked my holes, then drilled. Note to self, make sure the angle is lying in proper mounting position or you have to drill more holes...DOH!!! Mounted the angle, then slid receiver up and into position. Marked where it needed to mount, then proceeded to weld it up. Of course, with welding comes high heat and distortion, had to do some tweaking once I tried to remount, but got it on there. Fits great although it sits just a bit back, but my hitches are longer and my trailers have longer tongues. Only really thing I wished would have been changed is the angle to be longer so I could move the receiver back a bit and have more welding area for the side plates of receiver, but it will pull my utility trailer and camper if needed.
I got a Hoppy circuit gaurdian trailer light hookup from member JPaul last fall, hooked it up also. Removed rear pass panels, pulled out brake harness, separated connector, plugged in the other two connectors, replaced saftey lockes, wired white wire to body panel, then ran red wire under trim panels to the front, through firewall and hooked to pos terminal on battery. There is a large rubber plug on the floor, just cut a slice in it, then ran the trailer plug through it, down over to the center of receiver. May add brake wire in future if we ever pull our camper along with a RV 7 plug.


Receiver and angle.


Angle welded to receiver



All painted ready to mount


Pass side mounting to frame

Drivers side mounting to Frame


mounted, all nice and tuck up, 300/3000 & 600/6000 with WDH


Rear panel pulled out


Brake connector that has to come apart


Pic of brake connector


Everything ready to be closed up, I zipped tied conector to keep from bouncing around.

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'99 Tahoe, 3" BL, 285/75/16's , MT II's.
'05 Liberty Sport, -wifey's
'98 Poncho Fireturd, 3.8L, .....the purple pig!

As long as those welds are strong, nice work!

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2004 TJ Rubicon.

There's a couple grade 8, 1/2" bolts on the side too for my added piece of mind.

Good decision. And glad to see Chevy parts go to good use.

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2004 TJ Rubicon.

nice looks just like the hitch i got from INC Did you have to cut off 2 of your fingers to get the back bolt in above the exaust too?

I ended up usin 12.9 bolts in mine , was all i could aquire

nice lookin work!

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03 Renegade (Black)
177k miles 3.7L gas - 45RFE
Command Trac / 4.10s
Lift: ft. 790+ rr. JBA4+
The last of the TrailReady Front&Rear Bumpers and TR Rock Rails
Jarhead Offroad light covers
31x10.5R15 RedLetter Grabbers on Blackrock Dunes
L.O.S.T #KD098632

Great job!!!
No need to pay big bucks for rear recovery.

ah just cut the exhaust off, its makes it much easier to work.

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1980 Jeep CJ7 Buggy
SOA, D44/ FF14B, SBC 350, SM465, NP205, 108" WB, 37" MTs

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thats the one section of the exaust i havent put a hole in yet though


what made it worse was I was workin with allen head bolts rather than standard, which = a pair of channel locks to tighten the back passenger bolt until i could wiggle and fit the ratchet with a an allen tip socket in the space

good thing the bolts are harder than the channel locks, scuffed my channel locks all up!

woulda been much easier with standard bolts heh

I def. like our tubed hitches better than square ones, and have gottena few compliments on it from other jeepers too who asked me where I got it, and all I could say was "From a dude in in the LOST club" cause I don't even know what brand or anything it is nor do i care haha it's whateva!

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03 Renegade (Black)
177k miles 3.7L gas - 45RFE
Command Trac / 4.10s
Lift: ft. 790+ rr. JBA4+
The last of the TrailReady Front&Rear Bumpers and TR Rock Rails
Jarhead Offroad light covers
31x10.5R15 RedLetter Grabbers on Blackrock Dunes
L.O.S.T #KD098632

Only thing I had to cut off was on the top of the receiver and a slight cut out on the pass side angle to fit around exhaust. For some reason there was a 1/2" or so angle on part of the top, just had to cut/grind so the top was straight to fit tight up against the angle. I just pushed the tailpipe to the side a little to get bolts in, but no other cutting.
No recovery....this is the wife's street queen, I have to take my Tahoe if I want to offroad.