I spent the last 2 days under my truck getting a trailer hitch put on, and with a rollpan, it was no bolt-on affair. I had to cut and reposition the centersection on the brackets, cut and bend the brackets, drill the frame, cut my rollpan, and figure out how to hide a huge 7-way light connector because every trailer we own has one. I'm still working on getting the license plate set up to work with it. It will be mounted on a receiver plug to hide the hitch when not in use.

I've been working on the idea for a while, and this week I got some motivation to get it done. I'm going riding several hours away (east of Bend, 4 corners for anyone who knows) tomorrow, and I needed a way bring someone with me. Instead of paying the huge gas bill to drive a fullsize van and big flatbed trailer, I can now take our small trailer and my truck.

Oh, and I had to take the sawzall to my exhaust to get the hitch on....Its dumped right out the muffler now, and its quite a bit louder in the cab. Lightning-style side-exit is coming next.

 

looks good man

 

Sweet! Looks good. I think I have seen this before. Not sure though.

 

Nice job, they make hitches like that though if you didnt know

 

Nice! Looks good!

Street Scene makes a hitch that bolts right up that does the same thing, so you probably have seen it before.

 

I didn't know anybody made these. I went to all the local trailer/towing supply places, and nobody could find me a hitch. So I went to the wrecking yard and picked one up, and promptly re-engineered it to fit what I wanted. It's completely invisible with the plate pinned on, exactly what I wanted.

 

im diggin the stand you made for your quad

so does your plate flip up or do you just take it off when you use the hitch?

 

Its cooler that you made your own IMO

 

I wanted to do a flip bracket originally, but nobody had one. I checked a lot of junkyards cuz a lot of cars had them, but a lot of that stuff got scrapped over the summer when scrap prices were up and demand for parts wasn't.
Now its getting mounted on a receiver plug to pin in place of the ball mount when I'm not towing.

They're makin thier money, and I'm savin mine. I gotta pay to do my new exhaust somehow.
Besides, if you got the skills to do it halfway decent, I think home-brewed is always better.

 

uh... i might be a newb. but wuts a rollpan?

 

WOW! LOL

Its the fiberglass piece in place of the rear bumper.

 

Looks good like that.

 

i like it like that, and yea i think street scene makes the hidden hitch and the roll pan and the license plate flip kit for anyone who wants to know.

 

Very nice. Really diggin the pinstripe, looks awesome!!

 

Nice!! I love it

 

looks sweet so your plate is kinda like your hitch cover?

 

looks good, but what you might check out for a license cover would be the flip down plates from the 80's camaro's, and firebirds

 

wow looks good man

 

Nice, now I have motivation to get mine done.

 

oh ok.. hey man i got a freakin steel bumper.
lol

 

I got a steel roll pan, still, not a bumper.

 

any more pics ... wouldnt mind seeing the entire setup with trailers and how your quads in there