
I have added a hitch to the van and now has become the looong hauler



The long load, these vans can pull

Draw-tite instructions


The hitch installed, the second pic doesn't show the third bolt
which I added later on.


The 2" receiver which I had in my collection of junk, I don't know where it came from!!!
It looked usefull, so I decided to use it. It came with the bolt already welded on it. So I bolted it unstead of the regular 2" ball.
I had a friend weld it ALSO to the flat tongue, I didn't want install it UNDER the flat tongue because the van is very low and would make the hitch too low and I would have to cut and reweld the loops under tongue that are used for the safety chains.


I cut the molding on the bumper all the way back to the metal so that the square hitch fits.

By modifying the original draw-tite hitch from ball mount to a 2" receiver (when you actually install the 2" hitch mount w/ball), the new ball is farther than the original ball design.
This extra length can creat more stress/flex on the hitch when you attach the trailer, so I ended up adding a third bold to the hitch/bumper. If I knew how to weld, I would have added more support to the whole thing.