Video Transcript for TowSmart Class III Trailer Hitch - 2022 Ford Bronco Sport

Hi everyone, Bruce here at etrailer. Today, we're gonna take a look at and install the Towsmart Trailer Hitch Receiver on our 2022 Ford Bronco Sport. You may be looking to get a hitch just to open up some options for you. Say you're going on long trips and you need a cargo carry up, free up space inside that hitch will accommodate that. Plus if you're looking to haul a small utility trailer or even some bikes. Now if you have purchased this hitch and just let us know how you like it and what you're actually doing with it.

Now taking a closer look at our hitch, we do have a two-by-two receiver tube opening with a gloss black finish and this particular receiver tube will accept a 5/8 pin and it will accept 1/2" pin. Now the hitch does not come with the pins, but most of your accessories may. But we do have them here at etrailer and you can go ahead and pick one up. Now if we take a look at our safety chain loops here, it is just a loop that's welded on the bottom of the receiver. It will accommodate the standard test style hook or even your bigger clevis style hooks.

Now what we're gonna do now is I'm gonna go ahead and give you a few measurements. The first measurement I'm gonna take is our ground clearance measurement and I'm gonna measure from the ground to the bottom of the receiver tube. Now I will subtract 8" because we are in an 8" lip. So going ahead and measuring that, we're at about 16" off the ground. So you're not gonna have any trouble with any ground clearance going over any steep grades or anything.

So you should be good there. And let's go ahead and move on to another measurement I like to take is from our pinhole and we're gonna go to the back pinhole 'cause there are two pinholes on this one. We've got, remember the 5/8 and the 1/2" pinhole. Let's go with the five eights to the bumper and we're looking at roughly 4 1/2." And the reason I'm giving you that measurement is if you've got a cargo carrier or even a bike rack that does fold up, it's gonna tell you how long of a shank you need to be able to fold that bike rack up or even the cargo carrier to keep from hitting your hatchback. This trailer hitch receiver does have a 3,500 pound gross trailer weight rating with a 525 pound tongue weight rating.

What that means is the the tongue weight rating, all that means is is the downforce on anything that you do have hooked up to your trailer hitch, whether it be cargo carrier, bike rack, or even a small utility trailer. As far as the installation goes, it's really not too bad. I really think you can do this at home without any problems. But if you don't want to tackle it at home, say you don't have the tools or the time to do it, check out our deer locator on etrailer.com. But if you do want to give it a try, stick around. I'll show you how To begin our installation, we're gonna go ahead and grab a seven millimeter and we do have one, two, three, four of those to go ahead and remove. (drill grinding) Moving onto our next step, we're gonna grab a 10 millimeter and in the instructions it's gonna say to remove the isolators off the muffler to drop a muffler down. But what we're gonna do is just go ahead and remove the isolator with the 10 millimeter nut here. This particular side on the passenger side, we do have a wiring harness there first. So let's go ahead and get that outta the way. (drill grinding) Pull that firing harness down and just move it out of the way. Now we do have a strap holding up our muffler because we are gonna lower it and it's just a cam strap. You can get those here at etrailer. Gonna go ahead and drop the passenger side first and then we'll do the same thing to the driver's side, but there is no wiring harness there that you need to remove. (drill twirling) Our next step is to go ahead and grab a trim tool and we've got a Christmas tree style push button and then just a regular push button here. We're gonna go ahead and remove those and you can use a screwdriver as well or a trim tool like I'm using (people murmuring) Pop that guy out and go ahead and just push this to the side. Now our next step, we're gonna go ahead and grab a bur bit. There is a access hole on the side on the inside of the frame here. We're working on the driver's side. You're gonna have the same thing on the passenger side. We need to make this hole a little bigger 'cause our bolt does need to fit through there. (bur bit drilling) Now we'll go ahead and grab a bolt and see if we made that hole big enough and we did. So all you're wanting to do is just make sure that you can get that bolt inside that hole 'cause we do have to fish 'em out of these three holes here. Now we're just gonna go ahead and grab a spray paint or something. Since we did grind on that, we're gonna just go ahead and cover up with some clear coat just to help with corrosion. Moving on to our next step, we need to go ahead and grab a fish wire and we're going to send it through our first hole, which is right here and that's towards the back bumper and we're gonna come out this big hole here that we made a little bigger for a bolt. So we're just gonna feed the screw end of the fish wire in and pop it out of our access hole. We're gonna grab a flat plate that's gonna go on our fish wire first. We grab a carriage bolt and that's gonna screw onto our fish wire. (people murmuring) Now we're gonna take our flat plate and it's gonna go in our whole first, followed by the carriage bolt. I can't, there we go. Couldn't find the end of the wire and we'll go ahead and pull that through and we're gonna do that with the remaining two holes here. The fish wire go up and through here and we'll just do the same thing and you will do that same thing on the passenger side. (drill grinding) (metal clanging) (people murmuring) Once we do have the bolts inside the frame, we can go ahead and do a little bit of trimming on our bumper fascia here. And the instructions say to basically follow this line here and then you're gonna come out like this. Well, I'm gonna go just straight across to this line and then come straight down like so and this will come across and down. Now that we've got that marked, we can go ahead and cut that out. You can use an oscillating tool like I'm gonna use. You can use 10 snips or even just a utility knife. We're gonna pull this back a little bit and we're just gonna go ahead and follow our line. (oscillating drill whizzing) Now we're gonna go ahead and take a utility knife and get some of these burrs off. You can use a as well, but utility knife works just as good and just kind of go along and then we'll clean up our white paint there from our paint marker. Now you're gonna probably want to grab an extra set of hands. I've got Jesse with me and we're gonna go ahead and throw the hitch up. Now our fish wires just need to go through the corresponding holes, so the back one needs to go through the back and so on. (people murmuring) and then we can go ahead and slide it up. (metal clanging) Now you want to pull them fish wires off, but be careful when you're putting the nut on in there that you don't push that bolt all the way back through, otherwise you're gonna have to fish it back out. Now we can go ahead and grab a 19 millimeter and we're gonna go ahead and snug these down. (wrench grinding) Now, grabbing our torque wrench, we're gonna go ahead and torque these down in the manufacturer specifications. If you don't have a torque wrench, you can rent one from your local auto parts store or we do carry them here at etrailer. Now that we do have the hitch all torque down, we're gonna go ahead and put our muffler back into its place and we're just gonna reuse the existing bolts that we took out of the muffler hangers and go ahead and put those back. Once you have everything buttoned up, it does complete our installation of the Towsmart Trailer Hitch Receiver on our 2022 Ford Bronco Sport. I'm Bruce, thanks for watching.