Recent content by EveryDayBronco

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Would have never thought of the that, thanks!

Good find! That would be easier than what I did as there is a bend in the rear frame that I had to deal with. I wouldn’t weld anything to the bronco and instead weld to the hitch and make end brackets to bolt on similar to mine. You'd need 8” bolts in place of the 4” bolts. Or, if you weld...

I agree and I won’t use the typical motorcycle carrier even with my beefed up hitch. I’ll post my carrier in near future. I have a trailer, but I posted it for sale here. My situation is that I don’t have space to keep a trailer where I live and I got tired of having to go pick it up and put...

I’ve not seen that, thanks for posting it. It looks like it achieves approximately the same increase in strength as mine. It’s visible and hangs down which I’m crazy about but for ready-to-install item I think it looks like a good option.

Yes I’ve seen that and in the future if I ever have to replace my muffler I’d consider a compact exhaust to give space for adding similar braces. Mine is a 2-door, and to do what I did I did have to adjust the muffler location forward approximately 3/4” to give enough shake clearance.

That has no bearing on my reason for doing this.

Yes, the new tube steel is bolted to the back of the hitch with the four 1/2" bolts that would normally just bolt the hitch to the cross frame. Contact area is approx. 20 square inches. I crunched the numbers and the weakest points are the end brackets. Welding gusset plates to the new...

price drop

Not having the spare tire puts you about 8" closer which is not as bad but you're still overloading the hitch by 2x.

How do you access the jack compartment?

The new cross member is 2.5x2.5x.25" tube steel and is bolted to the back of the hitch with the four 1/2" bolts. Contact area is 9.75"x 2" with bolts torqued tight. Welding the new tube steel to the hitch would be next level for strength but the end brackets, which you can see, are as strong...

You're scaring me! The cross member is thin box section, and tongue weight is rated for 350 lbs at the ball which is around 8" from the pin. The carrier extends another 24" farther out which put approx. 3x the moment on the cross member. IOW 300 lbs of bike + carrier that far back works out...

OEM tongue weight is 350 lbs and I want to carry my exc-f on the hitch and since the load would be farther I doubled the rear frame to beef up the hitch tongue capacity. Super tedious work and had to modify the muffler location to make space for a second cross frame.

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