Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem..... or you could sell the hitch to me?!?!?!!?!?

OR ME!!!!! I thought u got one already!?!?!!

Hold on boys and girls my thread I get 1st first dibs:bustingup

No, while the guy was out of town for business his wife traded the X in before the hitch was removed... I am back to square one! Back to considering making my own as I already have 90% of the materials needed (except for the harness)

bogus - i think someone could sell OEM hitch here for $1000 and get it now.

I might break will and get the curt hitch, modify/shorten it's mounting flanges 3/8's an inch to make room for the flanges of a home made internal support beam as with the oem... add further bracing to the hitch for strength as well. But that still leaves me without harness. At least most of the towing I'll be doing initially will be with a 4x8 utility trailer with no lights on it yet... but I will have to find the electrical end of it soon.

hmm maybe i should go that route since i can pickup that OEM wiring harness from my mechanic cheap. How do you make the bumper reinforcement bar?

I would be mimicking the oem support bars that goes in the frame with metal welded, drilled and tapped. Then just adding bracing to the hitch (in form of angle iron and steel straps etc.) as I see fit to achieve the structural integrity of the oem.

So what of these oem harnesses? Can you get the oem trailer hookup cheap?!?!? If you can that would help me out as I will still need the harness and trailer module.

I do not want to sound stupid, but excatly what piece are you all talking about in this thread????? Is it the piece that connects to this picture or this piece itself?

The piece shown on the truck there that goes up into the bumper.