Roadmaster Tow Bar Installation - 2006 Jeep Liberty

Installation of a Tow Bar From Roadmaster on a 2006 Jeep Liberty

Today we are going to show you part number RM-576 from Roadmaster. This is their Sterling All Terrain tow bar. We will be installing this on a 2006 Jeep Liberty. Our Jeep here already has the base plates installed so we are going to concentrate on the tow bar. We have got the parts laid out in the order of assembly. Starting off with these two pieces right here, these are the adapter parts that go to your face plate that is mounted on your vehicle which allows you to connect this cross bar to the base plates and then to this cross bar the sterling all terrain tow bar mounts to it. Start with the brackets that are listed for the driver side and passenger side of a car. This will get mounted up like this and then the bracket for the safety chains is going to get mounted on the bottom like this. Go ahead and bolt up these two halves and put the assembly on to the tow bar bracket. 01:00

Lets line them up and our bolt in. Just make sure the holes are even here and then tighten it down. Use this pin here to hold it in place to keep it reasonably close. We are just going to snug that down. Once we have got everything on the tow bar brackets then we will snug them down for good. Lets go ahead and do the other side now. Lets start off with this plate and our two bolts in. That is going to go into the brackets here and then out to our base plate and we will attach two flat washers and lock washers and nuts. We are intentionally leaving these loose for now. Go ahead and do the same thing over on the passenger side. We are going to next install our cross bar and I left them loose so we could adjust them left and right so the cross bar fits. 02:25

You want to get it to where the cross bar comes off with relative ease and once you have that set you can go ahead and tighten down all of the bolts. Go ahead and tighten these bolts down for good. Use the pin to hold it in place. Once we have these all tightened down we can go ahead and torque them down as specified in the instructions. We have got our cross bar installed, we have our bracket adapters installed. Now we can get ready to hook up the tow bar. We are going to hook up our safety cable first, go through here like so with your bracket. That secures the removal end of the base plate to the frame of the vehicle. Do that on both sides. We will pull up on this lever here to extend one of the arms. And we will just rotate it so we can go ahead and put it into our cross bar. The pin goes from the outside in and lines up with this hole here. Get your snap pin. The blue cables here are actually safety cables and they fit into the lower bracket that we installed. They have a slot on top that they go through and you just follow the track down into place. Of course the other half of our tow bar will get plugged into on our RV. You do not have to be perfectly straight on because you can adjust it left or right. 04:07

When you have your cross bar installed make sure you have your snap pins installed also. That is the basic operation of it lets go ahead and actually hook it up to an RV. We will go ahead and start our install. We will start off by putting the tow bar into the back of the motor home. Put in our pin and clip. One neat thing about this is the self storage feature here as we have got it pulled up and stored all we have to do is take the pressure off and push this tab back and we can start immediately using it. When we are done with it we can put it right back into place. Do the safety cables. Next we will do our electrical. All that remains now is to go ahead and start up the RV, make a couple of left and right turns to pull the arms out and they will lock into position. With that test our tow bar is ready to go with our Jeep and that finishes our install of part number RM-576 from Roadmaster.