Random1

It just needs paint, but I made my own... I have no intention to sell these, just wanted to show that it could easily be done. Many have mentioned wanting to, but there is no evidence that I have seen indicating that anyone has and it works great...

I figured this may help those interested in making their own, below is a link to my full gallery which includes my tire trailer. The hitch is really a one-off prototype and is not asthetically perfect, but it does work just fine.

Edit 2/12/05: The link below is to a gallery of pictures with more details/notes.

My Trailer and Hitch
This is not a procedure, if you have questions post here or PM me.

glagola1

Nice man. I wish I had welding tools. I'd learn how to do it just for this alone. I'm using the D'lan hitch and it works but weighs a ton and doesn't remove easily.

edit: after looking at your site one thing worries me a little. The "L" attachments look a little suspect. I guess the attachment at the back by the diff is taking the brunt of the pulling force but those yokes don't look too beefy. I'd be worried about deflection in those guys.

I didn't read all the text so forgive me if you have answered this but how long have you be using this set up?

Thanks, Matt

Indecision

Very nice. I think this is enough to get me off my lazy ass and do something good over the winter

mikegarrison

I was thinking about this the other day and it seems like each of the three attachment points should probably be designed to take about 600 lb of working load in the front-back direction, so maybe something like 1000 pounds as an actual design limit. Not so much up and down or side to side. (Based on a trailer of about 500 lb.) Did you do any such calculations, or did you just go with the "that looks beefy enough" technique?

Random1

Home Depot as well as other places rent wire feed welders. A drill press, cut-off saw and reciprocating saw with metal blade also make this easier. Ideally you would have a plasma cutter as well.

The yokes mainly take down force, but there are some amount lateral forces too.

[QUOTE]mikegarrison (Posted on Jan 24 2005, 06:22 PM)

mikegarrison

Did you have to and/or decide to replace any of the bolts with longer bolts?

FASTLAP

Looks good. What kind of attachment points on the car?

FASTLAP

OOPS. Now I see. Never mind

Random1

[QUOTE]mikegarrison (Posted on Jan 24 2005, 10:23 PM)

Triple-H

From the pics it seems like you did a nice job.