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Do the installation yourself and budget 5x time
By Tools4Life
Just finished installing this on my 1998 GMC Savana 3500. Took about 4-1/2 hours. Got it from another online retailer, but they don't have a review feature, so I'm posting here. Maybe it'll help others.Other vendor used cheap tape to pack it and attach accessories to it, which left most of its adhesive on the hitch. I may want to hose the dirt off it one day, so I spent time removing the adhesive.There were several spots where the powdercoat had been chipped off in handling/shipping, so I wiped them down with solvent and hit them with a few coats of Rustoleum.I shaved a lot of the undercoating off the frame rails to provide a more positive mounting surface for the hitch, rather than having a thick layer of goopy slop between the hitch and the frame. Cleaned some dirt out from the inside of the frame rails, so I wasn't bolting dirt between the backing plates and the frame.The rear set of holes inline with the main cross bar of the hitch were 1/8-in farther apart than the holes in the van, so I filed them, deburred the edges and touched up the bare steel with LPS Cold Galvanizing spray. That let me put the hitch up into position, where I could see that the forward holes didn't line up either. Used a stylus to mark the location of the frame holes from inside the rail, took the hitch back off, filed them to the scribe marks, deburred and zinced.Finally, with the hitch back in place one more time, there wasn't enough flat space on the hitch itself around the bolts for the large locking washers to bear, so I marked and trimmed three of the washers before final installation.Torqued everything. The forward plates are supposed to be arranged so their long direction goes from side to side of the frame rail. I started with them that way, but when I started torquing them, three of them rotated. I'll have to go back later and find a chunk of wood or metal the right width to put between the two plates so they can't turn while torqing.All done. The good thing is, it will tow the heck out of my stuff.This just illustrates why DIY is the way to go on so much of life. I wouldn't want this hitch installed on my vehicle with any of the above steps skipped, but I don't know how to find someone who would do all that, and wouldn't want to pay them for it in any case.One more detail to note, most photos of the hitch and the hardware kit layout don't include a blanking plate or cover for when the hitch is not in use. The hitch does come with a blanking plate/cover, so you don't need to buy anything extra for that. I was trying to cover all the bases in advance, and ended up buying one from a trailer shop on a popular auction site. Turns out their stock of them was just takeoffs from hitches they installed where the owner didn't want it or they upsold to something "personalized". A "Reese" logo is good enough for me...
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