Trailer Hitch Installation - 2008 Ford Edge - Curt

Installation of a Trailer Hitch on a 2008 Ford Edge

Today on our 2008 Ford Edge, we'll be installing Curt Hitch, part number C13067. Now before we begin our installation, heres what your hitch will look like on the vehicle. We'll go ahead and give you a few measurements to help you in selecting accessories such as a drawbar, a bike rack, or a cargo carrier. From the center of the hitch pin hole to the outermost part of the bumper is 5-1/2 inches. From the top of the receiver tube to the ground is 13-1/4 inches. Now, let's go ahead with our install.

Now to begin our installation, we'll need to lower the exhaust system at the three rubber isolators. There are two here on the mufflers as well as one here just forward of the mufflers here at the Y in the exhaust. Now to make this a little easier, we'll go ahead and spray the isolators down with a spray lubricant. We can then remove them with a simple pry bar. Now before removing the forward isolator, you'll want to put a strap underneath the exhaust to hold the exhaust up.

This will help prevent damage to your exhaust system. Now that our exhaust is lowered, we can go ahead and remove both heat shields. There are three screws holding the heat shields up as well as a plastic clip on each heat shield. After removing the three screws, we'll simply pull down on the heat shield to remove the plastic clip. With both heat shields down, we'll now go ahead and trim them as shown in the instructions.

Now, I'm going to go ahead and hold the heat shield up in place and draw a line to indicate where we'll be cutting it. We'll need to make sure that we're cutting enough of the heat shield out to leave the holes exposed that we'll be using to mount our hitch. Now with both heat shields trimmed, we're ready to install our hardware into the frame. We'll be using the carriage bolt, the square spacer block, and our fish wire. We'll now go ahead and point out our attachment points.

We'll be using the two existing holes in the frame and for our third attachment point we'll be using a hitch as a template to drill the hole in the frame. We'll feed our fish wire in through the mounting bolt hole location and out the rear of the frame. We can then slide the spacer block on and screw the carriage bolt to the fish wire. We'll then pull the spacer block and the carriage bolt through the frame and out the mounting bolt hole location. We'll repeat this process for the remaining three fasteners on this vehicle. We're now ready to put our hitch up into place. It will be a good idea to get an extra set of hands to help you hold the hitch while we install our hardware. Once we have all our hardware finger tight, we're now ready to drill our holes. We'll be using a step-drill process. We'll begin by finding the center of the hole, and using a center punch, we'll make our mark. We can then begin by using a small drill bit and working our way up to our final size. Now that we have both holes drilled, we'll then attach our spacer block and carriage bolt to the fish wire and pull it back through the frame out the hole that we drilled. We'll then attach our nut on the other side. After doing that on both sides of the vehicle, we can go ahead and tighten down the fasteners and torque them to specification as indicated in the instructions. With everything torqued to specification, we can now reinstall our exhaust which will complete the installation of Curt Hitch, part number C13067 on our 2008 Ford Edge.