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KS Toy · 07-10-2002, 04:02 PM

Does anyone else have or even bother with a hitch cover or do you just leave the ball mount in? I trade mine out, here is the pic

Eskimo · 07-11-2002, 06:00 AM

I leave the ball in mine all the time.. seems to help with tailgaters, they don't follow as closely.

Red Chevy Girl · 07-11-2002, 11:31 AM

I run my hitch most of the time but when the cover does go on it says "cowgirl up" when i can find it.

TEX · 07-11-2002, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by Blue 84
Does anyone else have or even bother with a hitch cover or do you just leave the ball mount in?

I have to take mine out 'cause I have a tractor parked sideways in the back of my garage & the hitch will hit on the brush hog if I don't remove it. The reg-cab truck I had before would fit w/o removing the ball, so I rarely took it out. I don't have a cover for the hitch though when it's empty.

TEX

camo · 07-11-2002, 02:35 PM

i always leave my hitch in. i doubt i could even find the key to remove the pin .

MattS · 07-11-2002, 10:32 PM

Mine got tore off wheeling in Oklahoma. I heard it fly off just accross the water on the first ledge.

TEX · 07-12-2002, 05:55 AM

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Originally posted by camo
i doubt i could even find the key to remove the pin .

Key? WTF?!

TEX

Rudezuk · 07-12-2002, 09:57 AM

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Originally posted by camo
i always leave my hitch in. i doubt i could even find the key to remove the pin .

I know you guys have a torch

I leave mine in also.....Had someone rear end me with it on there....No damage to my rig

4Bangler · 07-15-2002, 08:17 AM

Ha, get this, in Michigan it is illegal to have a receiver ball mount in the receiver without a trailer attached! One of my club members got a warning for the ball mount that was in the truck when he bought it, so he pulled the pin and the plug wouldn't come out, so we tried to remove it, and we tried, and we tried, we hooked that thing to a 6'x6'x6' concrete cube and jerked the begeezes out of it, moved the block, didn't budge the hitch plug. We heated it up with a torch, and hooked it to a broke down dozer, still, no budge. Drove around with it like that for another year, pulled in the truck pull at the fair 2 years running with no pin in it, no problem, then he sold the truck, and the new owner had it drop out moving his boat in the yard. WTF!

07-10-2002, 04:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
KS Toy Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Member # 7938 Location: The Land of OZ... Posts: 3,512	Show us your hitch cover Does anyone else have or even bother with a hitch cover or do you just leave the ball mount in? I trade mine out, here is the pic Attached Images

07-11-2002, 06:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Eskimo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Member # 10429 Location: Danville, PA Posts: 4,456	I leave the ball in mine all the time.. seems to help with tailgaters, they don't follow as closely. __________________ Rich Q. FJ-40 Cruggy - tuned 5.3/4WS rockwells/linked/ORI's/42's

07-11-2002, 11:31 AM	#3 (permalink)
Red Chevy Girl Registered User Join Date: Mar 2000 Member # 504 Location: Modesto, CA Posts: 690	I run my hitch most of the time but when the cover does go on it says "cowgirl up" when i can find it. __________________ Kristen 85 chevy, 350, T400, d60, corp 14 -4.56 gears, locked front & rear with 44" boggers 84 Toyota 02 F250 Diesel

07-15-2002, 08:17 AM	#9 (permalink)
4Bangler Jackstand Wheeler Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12152 Location: Alpena, Michigan Posts: 1,616	Ha, get this, in Michigan it is illegal to have a receiver ball mount in the receiver without a trailer attached! One of my club members got a warning for the ball mount that was in the truck when he bought it, so he pulled the pin and the plug wouldn't come out, so we tried to remove it, and we tried, and we tried, we hooked that thing to a 6'x6'x6' concrete cube and jerked the begeezes out of it, moved the block, didn't budge the hitch plug. We heated it up with a torch, and hooked it to a broke down dozer, still, no budge. Drove around with it like that for another year, pulled in the truck pull at the fair 2 years running with no pin in it, no problem, then he sold the truck, and the new owner had it drop out moving his boat in the yard. WTF! __________________ '46 CJ-2A, '47 CJ-2A, '48 CJ-2A, '50 M38, '52 M38A1, '62 CJ-3B, '62 CJ-5, '65 CJ-5, (2) '66 CJ-5's, '67 CJ-5, '69 CJ-5, '69 J-3000, '70 CJ-101, '74 DJ-5, '74 CJ-5, '77 CJ-5, '78 CJ-5, '78 CJ-7, '78 Wagoneer, '95 YJ, '97 XJ...None of them run.

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07-11-2002, 02:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
camo No comment Join Date: Mar 2000 Member # 4 Location: Rubicon Posts: 27,061 Blog Entries: 1	i always leave my hitch in. i doubt i could even find the key to remove the pin .

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MattS Pirate4x4 Addict! Join Date: Mar 2000 Member # 386 Location: Omaha, NE USA Posts: 14,690	Mine got tore off wheeling in Oklahoma. I heard it fly off just accross the water on the first ledge.