Today on this 2010 Dodge Journey we are going to install part number 13335 from Curt. This first step involved in installing this hitch is we are going to have to lower the exhaust a little bit. There is four rubber hangers right behind the bumper that holds the mufflers up and there is two in front of the mufflers that need an additional clearance to take off the lower the mufflers even more. We will spray them down with some lubricant to make it a little bit easier to pull off. With the pry bar just try to get some leverage. And go to the other side and do those. We will go ahead and show you where the bolt holes are at in the frame. We will be using this one, this one, and this one right here. So now we are looking at the passenger side and the driver side is going to be identical. We will go ahead and start fish wiring our hardware into the frame of the vehicle. 00:44
What is going to happen is that this bolt and plate is going to sit on the inside of the frame just like that. So we are going to have to fish wire using this opening here from the inside and come out the bottom. We will pull that fish wire through that came with the kit. Go in the hole that we are going to use and then go ahead and pull it out the access hole. So go ahead and thread on the block and just push it in and then thread on the bolt. Just push the whole assembly back in and pull it out the bottom. Okay and we will move on to this hole on the bumper structure and we will use a different access hole. We will go through here and out the front side of the vehicle. This one will use a different sized block so you use the bigger blocks that come with the kit. We have got our bolts on the passenger side so lets go over to the driver side and repeat the same process all over again. We can go ahead and install the hitch in the frame and what we want to do is hold the hitch up and make sure you do not push the bolts back in to the frame. 01:47
Next thing we are going to do is put the spacer between the hitch and the bumper and what it is going to do is it is going to push up a bolt. The spacer, the narrow end will go towards the front of the vehicle so we will just push up the bolt a little bit and flip our block in between and let our bolt fall back into place. All right we will go ahead and repeat the same process back over on the driver side. Once we get the spacer in place we can go ahead and install the flange nut. We will install the rest of the flange nuts on the hitch. Okay now before you snug them down take some time to move the hitch back and forth. Center it on the frame and then snug down the bolts. Okay once we have our bolts snugged down we can go ahead and torque them down as specified in the instructions. At this point we can go ahead and start reinstalling the muffler hangers. With the exhaust reconnected that finishes our install and there you have it for part number 13335 from Curt.
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