jhblackwell wrote:
If Aaron spots for you again you shouldn't have to worry about getting "yanked around", he's the best.
John
Agreed. Or Scott. Or Will. Or Moose (who neither of you have run with yet). All Pros.
dgeist wrote:
Thanks. The intent is to have a pair of stock receiver tubes that can be used for normal stuff when not offroad, but when in "winch mode" have an extra tight-tolerance bolt vertically through the tube and winch frame to keep things from getting sloppy as well as a brace in the center that extends back to a 2-1/2 square crossmember that bolts straight into it to really keep things from moving.
Mounting the winch itself will be the easy part (trim a generic winch plate and weld it to a little frame that extends down to the knockout tubes, etc). I doubt I'll have that part in order for ECS, but I should have two nice points with shackles that won't rip my bumper off if they pop off or get yanked around.
Oh, I totally got where you were going with this. Mine is the "last" hitch that Landy produced in his special run (25?) that he did of the copy of the Drawtite. I like your idea because you can do things like put two receiver mounted sitting platforms for you and the boy to go fishing when he gets a little older.
The font end on the 02-04 is different than yours (05-07) and I see that you have solved the height drop problem because of the different bumper in your design.
I have some of the plastic pop-rivets, which are available for order from NAPA (I'll find you the part#) much cheaper than from the dealer, and I have the rivet-set tool making it easier to put them in (much tighter that way than doing it with a pair of pliers) you can borrow too when you get around to taking the bumper off to mount your creation.
Here are a few of the other cool receiver hitch mounted accessories I have been looking at myself:
http://www.hitchcorner.com/trailer-hitc ... sories.htmhttp://hitches4less.com/bike-racks.htmlhttp://hitches4less.com/hitch-mounted-c ... ories.htmlSomewhere I remember seeing one that allowed for the mounting of a spare tire up from too.
~Sigh~ Sucks to be a poor college student again...
One of the advantages of having a dual front mount is that you can easily modify the mounts to turn the CRD into a Toad if you ever wanted to pull it behind a Winnebago.