I just finished rebuilding the engine on my 95 SR and put 500 break in miles on it. Now I need to tow some crap with it. It has the factory bolt on hook deal for pulling your truck out of a ditch and I have seen the bolt on hitch for that location. My question is: Is that bolt on hitch worth a damn or am I going to have major problems towing a car on a dolly with that thing? I wanted to see what other people have used for a tow hitch on this thing and what their tow limit was. I have bilstein shocks all around and I'm going to be putting some air lift air bags in the rear. I already had a 3000GT TT engine in the back of the truck and it didn't budge at all once it was dropped in... that was a pleasant surprise. So, basically I'm looking for a hitch that can handle towing 5-6000 lbs and I don't think the factory deal can handle that by the looks of it. If it can handle it, do you know where I can get the bolt on receiver part for the factory setup (if there is a place besides the dealer, obviously). Thanks.

I don't know if it's still available from the dealer or not, it might have to be ordered but they had a really decent tow package that utilized frame mounts like standard tow packages as well as that tow hook mount... Mitsu dealer quoted me only $150 for it, but that was 2 years ago. They are probably out of stock for a Gen 2-2.5 by now. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I bolted a receiver tube straight to the center mount and towed a 4k+ lb boat and trailer with no strain, with higher tongue loads than you should see with a loaded tow dolly, all on my 95SR. I had to drill two new holes in the flange, as the flange was really for a pintle hitch mount (same width, different top/bottom spacing).

Something like this?

http://www.awdirect.com/buyers-prod...-5-8quot-pm812/trailer-hitch/?CID=BASE08

Harbor freight, Tractor Supply, Northern Tool to name three places I have seen the bolt on units.

Ed

I got lucky at a Pick & Pull. Found a bolt to frame Draw-Tite reciver hitch, wiring kit and trailer brake setup less than 50 bucks. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

You may need an adaptor to make the separate brake, turn signal bulbs work with the combo bulbs found on most trailers.

Hans GZP, if you can find a 2" receiver that only uses the 4 bolts that hold on the tow hoop, I'll swap it for my Gen II factory tow bar <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

PM me if you're interested.

This is like what I used...

Sweet, I'll order that up today. Thanks!

I have the dealer receiver that mounts to the frame rails and the tow-hoop-plate at the rear, ~$165, IIRC. Also got the dealer plug-n-play four-pin harness, ~$50. It all installs efforlessly in no time. Still have the tow-loop as well.