How to Set Up Your Curt Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2006 Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty скачать в хорошем качестве

How to Set Up Your Curt Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2006 Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty

Click for more info and reviews of this CURT Front Receiver Hitch: https://www.etrailer.com/Front-Receiv... Check out some similar Front Receiver Hitch options: https://www.etrailer.com/fitguidefmr.htm Search for other popular Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2006... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-f... Today on our 2006 Ford F-350 we're going to take a look at and also show you how to install the Curt Custom Front Mount Receiver Hitch, part number 31114. Now here's what our hitch is going to look like installed. As you can see it's a pretty nice looking hitch. It sits right here in the center of our already existing opening in our truck, so we don't have to worry about cutting or trimming anything there. This is going to be a 2" by 2" receiver tube opening, so there's going to be a great deal of accessories available for it, including your snow plows, some people will put front-mount cargo carries on it, winch mounts. It shares the same 5/8" diameter pin hole here, so any of your Class III accessories will work out fine. You'll see we're going to have plenty of room there even if you wanted to use an anti-rattle device, or something like that. Now getting the hitch installed takes a little bit of work. It's not just a simple bolt-on installation. You do have to pull the front bumper, drill a couple of holes, but overall it's going to come on and off pretty easily for you. Now the hitch itself has a 500 pound tongue weight rating. That's the maximum downward force you want to put here at the receiver tube opening. It gives us a 5,000 pound gross trailer wight rating. That would be the total weight of our trailer and anything that we we're to load up on it. As far as straight line pull, that would be most often for a recovery situation, where you've got a winch mounted here in the front, it's going to give us a 9,000 pound rating with that. Your winch, you'll have up here. You'll want to use a pull, direct pull maximum of 9,000 pounds. Now you can drastically reduce that of course by running some snatch block and things. You got your tow hooks, which are left in place here. You don't have to get rid of those for the hitch to work. That's going to make it nice so you can double back and have a good strong connection point there. Now as a solution for your license plate mounting situation here, you can re-use the factory bracket. You would just want to bring that up, hook it back on that front side, and then just use a couple of small screws to replace those rivets. That would allow you to take it on and off. Typically, with the snow plow it's going to be seasonal, but for other accessories you might just want to leave it off, and come up with a different mounting solution. That's completely up to you where you want that plate to go. Just make sure you stay in compliance with your local laws. Now a few measurements that are helpful when selecting accessories from your front mount hitch will be from the ground to the inside top edge of the receiver tube opening, we're going to have about 24". Then from the center of the hitch pin hole to the outer most edge of our bumper it's about 2 1/2. To begin our hitch installation we need to get the front bumper removed. Our hitch is going to mount between the bumper and the front of the frame of the vehicle. Now on each side, right here underneath the corner, there's going to be a bracket. It's going to run from this cross member plate, over to the bottom of the bumper here, so we want to take out this bolt so it won't hang up. Now, typically your '06 should have this bracket. If you're on a different year, you might not have this. Let's do the same thing on our passenger side as well. Now just outside of our tow hooks, we've got the two bolts that are going through our bumper and holding this in place. We'll need a 19 millimeter socket, or a 3/4" socket, and we're going to remove the bottom one completely. I'm going to take the top one almost all the way out. We want to have that for support though while we take care of the other side. Then we can get an extra set of hands and pull the bumper off. Now on the back side of that bolt there is a nut. It also requires a 3/4" or 19 millimeter socket. You just want to hold on to that as you remove it. You'll see that's what you'll be taking out. You just got a bolt, a couple of flat washers, and our nut. Now before we take the bumper off, if your truck is equipped with the fog lights on each side here, you want to take the plug out that's on the back side. You can just pull the bulb like that, or you can lift up on these two tabs and slide it off, whatever you prefer. Now with the help of an extra set of hands, we'll finish