Trailer Hitch Installation - 2001 Honda CR-V

Installation of a Trailer Hitch on a 2001 Honda CR-V

Today on 2001 Honda CRV we are going to be installing curt hitch part number 13314. Before we get started with our hitch installation were go ahead and show you a couple of the final install dimensions which are going to help make choose your hitch accessories a little bit easier from the top of the receiver to the opening to the ground is going to measure 17 inches and from the center of the pinhole to clear the spare tire from the rear is going to be approximately 6 1/2 inches and now we go ahead and move on to our installation. In the first thing were going to need to do is over here on passenger side of the vehicle go ahead and lower down the exhaust system. So we have some more working room. There are three exhaust hangers that were going to remove the exhaust off. There are two here at the rear, one on the inboard side and one in the upward side.

And if you found muffler forward there is one just forward of the axle. And what is out there well just have lock the exhaust rest on the rear hitch shift. Were actually caught up over here on the driver side now and go ahead and point out the many holes were going to be using to attach our trailer hitch. The middle hole were actually going to be using as an access point to get hardware inside the frame. You notice with the kit that there are two different length bolts so for the rear most attaching point will be using the 7/16 block along with the inches 3/4 carriage bolt.

However for the forward side hole well be pitching in the same block size but the carriage bolt itself is going to be an inch quarter in length and it's going to be the same about the drivers and passenger sides of vehicle. So at this point well go ahead to start pitching our hardware inside the frame and what were going to take the thread in here and go ahead and insert it and through the attaching hole and back our access hole go ahead take our block and slide it on and go ahead and put that inside the frame and then again follow up with the appropriately length carriage bolt. For what is inside the frame go ahead and take other end the bolt go ahead and pull it down into place. So go ahead and do the same thing for the forward attaching point so inaudible we want to use the inch and a quarter carriage bolt. Okay, we want to go ahead and repeat that set up for the passenger side of the vehicle.

And let me go ahead and check on the place. I do note before we put it up that there is a center much attached bolt hitch as well that's on the tow hook here end of the vehicle were going to be using to provide U bolt that comes with the kit and we do now go ahead and put the U bolt on first before you put the hitch up. I want to put the hitch up I actually just go on ahead and attach to the forward most bolt on the frame first on both the drivers and the passenger side and then from there we can actually rotated up and then allows to finally attach to the U bolt in the middle but to the frame bolt as well. And were going to attach the hitch to the carriage bolt in the 7/16 slide snaps. Whenever the hands tighten down I'm going to go back through and torque each one of the bolts down now.

Were going to verify with the directions this specific torque rating reach at the bolt. Were tighten the U bolt down were going to make sure we tighten it evenly so we may not have a threat protruding through both sides. Then with all the bolts store down we just want to make sure we put our resource back up on the tanker and our installations will be complete and that would conclude the installation of curt hitch part number 13314 on 2001 Honda CRV.