Trailer Hitch Installation - 2003 Saturn Vue

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Installation of a Trailer Hitch on a 2003 Saturn Vue

 Today on this 2003 Saturn Vue we will be installing Draw-Tite hitch part number 36408. This installation will also apply to hitch part number 90145. Okay we are underneath the vehicle and we are going to go ahead and and point out the attaching points. Here at the bottom of the bumper we have got two existing holes those are going to provide the two attaching points for the center of the trailer hitch. Then here on the outboard side of the frame we have two existing weld nuts here. These weld nuts are on both sides of the vehicle are going to provide the attachment points to the frame itself.

Before we get started here I am going to go ahead and clean those weld nuts out on each side by taking a spray lubricant like a WD40 and just spray those down and then we are just going to take some form of wire brush and we are just going to slide that in the weld nuts and rotate that around just a few times. Now that we have the weld nuts cleaned out we can go ahead and fish the carriage bolts and block through the bumper itself, down through the holes at the bottom of the bumper. To do that we are going to be using the half inch bolt leader that is provided with the installation kit. What you may find here when you are attempting to fish the bolt leader is that it is not quite long enough to reach. I am going to just take apiece of stove wire that you can find at any hardware store and tape the two ends together to give it just a little bit of an extension.

Then you just feed the threaded end in here through the bottom of the hole. We are actually going to feed that all the way to the hole at the end of the bumper itself and we will feed the block onto the bolt leader and we will take the carriage bolt and wrap the threads up around the bolt leader. Then just go back to the other end and pull it through the frame and we are going to repeat that for the other hole as well.

With those two in place we can go ahead and put the hitch into position. Attaching it to those two carriage bolts with the conical tooth washers and hex nut. Next we will go to the side of the frame that we cleaned out earlier. We are going to thread the 12 milimeter bolts along with the conical tooth washers into the weld nuts. Now that we have all of the bolts in place we can go ahead and tighten them down. Now we will come back through and torque them to their specified torque rating as listed in the directions. Now that we have all the bolts torqued down our installation is complete. This will conclude the installation of Draw-Tite hitch part number 36408 on a 2003 Saturn Vue.

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