BigGriz86
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Hey all, until recently i hadnt really paid much attention to the trailer hitch on my rig, because i dont have a trailer. But im starting to look into buying a surplus military trailer to build my biodiesel production plant on, and my friends want to go camping, but want to take along their pop up trailer. (she has an FJ cruiser with no hitch)
so i checked out my truck, the PO already installed a brake booster that seems to be wired correctly, ill be doing some online checking to find out more about that part so i can properly test it.
but when i looked at the hitch itself, i noticed it dosnt latch all the way down. almost like the ball in the hitch is too big. keeping the upper part of the latch too far up for the lock to fall into place. obviously im not towing ANYTHING with this until i fix the problem. I asked on a different forum and they all thought the military trucks didnt even have ball receivers...... just a curved bottom half, and a curved upper latch. i can post pictures tomorrow if needed, but im just confused. ive spent hours on google trying to find pictures of the BACK of a CUCV (no one seems to take gratuitous booty shots of these trucks).
i guess what im asking is, what style hitch originally came on the '86 M1009 trucks???? (pictures greatly appriciated)
so i checked out my truck, the PO already installed a brake booster that seems to be wired correctly, ill be doing some online checking to find out more about that part so i can properly test it.
but when i looked at the hitch itself, i noticed it dosnt latch all the way down. almost like the ball in the hitch is too big. keeping the upper part of the latch too far up for the lock to fall into place. obviously im not towing ANYTHING with this until i fix the problem. I asked on a different forum and they all thought the military trucks didnt even have ball receivers...... just a curved bottom half, and a curved upper latch. i can post pictures tomorrow if needed, but im just confused. ive spent hours on google trying to find pictures of the BACK of a CUCV (no one seems to take gratuitous booty shots of these trucks).
i guess what im asking is, what style hitch originally came on the '86 M1009 trucks???? (pictures greatly appriciated)