Thursday, December 4, 2008

Rear hitch installation.



Right side of bumper


Took off the rear bumper. 13 screws and two fasteners later it came off. You have to pull really hard off the sides to get the clips to come off the top part of the bumper



Left side of bumper and bumper cover off.




Single side fastener






















Four fasteners on the top that were hard to take off.






















Make sure to unplug your rear sensor wiring before pulling the whole bumper off. It's located on a fastener that hooks onto the metal hook on the right.









Hitch finally installed after cleaning out the threads and liberally greasing the bolts. Torqued to 80 ft lbs



Took off original cover on bumper and used blue clips on new cover that conforms around the hitch.










Final installation. There was also a clip that goes on the left side of the hitch. I think this is for the electrical harness which I didn't order.

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