Install Trailer Hitch- Part 2
12-17-2010, 05:04 PM
#22
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Here is a pic of the ball mount. You can see where I added strips of duct tape in an attempt to minimize the slop. The current placement of the tape enables the ball mount bar to still slide into the reciever. It's still a bit loose but any more tape & it wont slide in at all:
Here is the top view of the installed ball with warning labels:
Here is the top view of the installed ball with warning labels:
You threw me off (I confuse very easily) "The tongue fits quite loosely in the reciever. This slop was quite annoying as the weight of the trailer magnifies this movement to where it's banging everything side to side & up & down. I needed to find a shim of some kind to get rid of the sloppyness. I started layering strips of duct tape on each side of the tongue until it fit a bit tighter than before. It's not perfect but it's better than before."
The tongue is attached to the ball coupler which mounts on the ball which is attached to the ball mount which goes into the hitch receiver. Sounds like a cheap x rated movie theme.
12-17-2010, 09:02 PM
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take a piece of .050 stainless shim material and fold it for three sides (bottom and 2 sides, can be doubled up where necessary)..it holds up better then tape as tape crushes down and shifts. You can make the shim material long enough so the pin holds it in place. I used( once before) aircraft aluminum tape thick enough that it would just fit inside..smoothed it out nicely untill it got crushed and forced away from the edges where most the contact is.....
12-21-2010, 07:56 AM
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Thin to Win!
take a piece of .050 stainless shim material and fold it for three sides (bottom and 2 sides, can be doubled up where necessary)..it holds up better then tape as tape crushes down and shifts. You can make the shim material long enough so the pin holds it in place. I used( once before) aircraft aluminum tape thick enough that it would just fit inside..smoothed it out nicely untill it got crushed and forced away from the edges where most the contact is.....
Duh !!!!!! 
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