Custom hitch pics

[danny Benavidez]

Just my 2 cents , Two welds one on top of the other is never a good, your overheating the steel, and that will make the steel warp. But if you guys think his welds are bad. Win got my 91 XJ the last owner had a bar bolted to the rear bumper with 3, 1/2" bolts holding it to the sheetmetal !

http://iidesign.info/Or_Photo/hitball.jpg

The first time I saw the jeep for sale it had no tow hitch. Win I called about the price I asked about that it did not have a hitch. And at the time the owner sad he wished it had one. A week later I checked back to see if the jeep is store for sale. And bolted the rear bumper is a new tow hitch with a ball. The ugliest hitch I ever did see. It was bolted on with only two 1/2" Dia. bolts and one 1/2" Dia. Eye-bolt inthe middle. He think's this was an improvement ! If someone was to hook up even a small trailer to this hitch the small bolts will share right there the bump's sheet metal. Load limit maybe about 100 pounds

and the text at http://iidesign.info/OR_91XJ.htm

 

[xcm]

thanks for sharing, that IS much much worse, and brought a smile to my face.
however, you have a drafting company and spell like that!?!?

 

[tayman]

haha those WERE funny! I think the OP will be fine... yeah, maybe his welds won't be perfect under super high, steel bending loads, but he's not putting that much weight on it... it'll be OK.

 

[Yucca-Man]

Do yall honestly not thing that all the welds and gussets will not hold up to pulling a dirt bike and 4-wheeler? How much can you really tow with a unibodied XJ anyway?

5,000 pounds with the 4.0L and AW-4, or 2,000 pounds with the 4.0L and 5-speed. That assumes the hitch is up to the task, of course.

Jim www.yuccaman.com

 

[Achmed]

LOL! Those welds are fine for a small trailer.

 

[FlexdXJ]

thats no stack of dimes welding job there dude. quit trying to cover your ass with every excuse in the book listen to these guys a lot of them have welded about half the things on their Jeeps. You just need to get some experience. I wouldn't tow with that thing myself

 

[JeepinCoastie]

hell it could look like this

:sure:

 

[tayman]

hey! get the shotgun! some bird took a shit on your weld!!!!!!

 

[Littlewhitexj]

im not real concerned about a small trailer, im real concerned about him getting in a bind and using it for recovery.

 

[tayman]

ok... that's the best argument i've seen this whole thread... I can't believe nobody's brought that up yet???

 

[Achmed]

hell it could look like this

:sure:

But it doesnt. :nosmile:

 

[JeepinCoastie]

But it doesnt. :nosmile:

YOUR FUGGIN BRILLIANT!
thanks for the Info ...


never did i state his weld was good ... and all i was stating was it could be worse ... but it aint good ...

 

[Achmed]

YOUR FUGGIN BRILLIANT!

Tell me something I don't already know.

 

[Mc2KXJ]

You love goats?

 

[Achmed]

If they are cooked just right, yes.

 

[XJfire75]

Well hooked the horrible hitch up to the fork lift and lifted it about 3' off the ground and let the fork lift down quickly I time or 2 to give it more tension/weight on it.

It didnt even move at all from pick up to let down. We watched it from start to finish and I looked under it and all that for any visual signs of stress.

Also jacked from it tonight when I installed my 4.5" leafs.

Pics to prove:

Cousin giving yall the suck it(I read him the thread LOL):

This pic you can see theres still the 3/16"ish space like it sits with no wait on it:

 

[DanMan2k06]

And that proves what? That you can lift maybe 1000-2000 lbs in the wrong direction?

 

[XJfire75]

No I;m just saying because half the guys dont think it could even do that. If it can hold 2 grand in that direction it sure as hell can pull my butt outta sticky stuff and can drag a 250lb dirt bike on a 350lb trailer without problems.

 

[XJfire75]

Thanks for the encouragement BTW!

 

[DanMan2k06]

No I wouldnt doubt it could do that at all. I would be more worried about vibration wear, load differences, and where are your safety chain loops?

Also, what happens when you are stuck and you have absurd amounts of force from an amateur driver trying to pull you out of a creekbed or something. Most likely with a chain...

I would be more worried about failure down the road. Not how well it holds up to 10 minutes of controlled forklifting.