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Adapts your Roadmaster base plate so you can use it with select models of Blue Ox and Demco tow bars.
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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hi, John with etrailer. Listen, if you are already set up to tow like these folks here and they just wanted to add their Jeep to their arsenal of flat towed vehicles, well this is one of the options that you have out there. This is gonna adapt a Roadmaster base plate to certain types of tow bars. This right here is the Roadmaster Tow Bar Adapter on our 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Now to begin your installation, it's gonna be easiest if you have your arms mounted into your base plate. For us today we have a hash mark on the inside.
This is gonna be to the inside of our vehicle and they're gonna be locked in like this. Now we need to get our brackets mounted onto our arms. We've got these up on the table here. So we're gonna pull the pins on each side and we'll have our brackets. Now these brackets are side specific and this is nice when it's brand new, but you'd also need to know once these labels come off, you need to know which side.
We can see this says driver's side of car and passenger side of car. So you just need to remember if you can that we have a flange on the inside and not on the outside. So these are all gonna go towards the inside of the car. We can begin by grabbing a plate, some bolts, flat washers, lock washers, and hex nuts. And that's what we're gonna need to install these onto our arms.
Now we'll grab our driver's side bracket and come to the driver's side arm. On our base plate we'll match these up. Take the bracket that came with your kit, we'll put that there and take your hex bolts and run them through. Then on the backside, take a flat washer on each bolt, a split ring lock washer on each bolt, and then a hex nut. Now keep these loose right now because we're gonna need to adjust these in just a minute when we get the crossbar.
So get this done for the passenger side as well. Now we can take our crossbar. You're gonna notice alignment dowels on the bottom and our hookups on the front where our tow bar is gonna attach to. And set this down onto the brackets. You may have to move them back and forth. This is why we kept them loose. Now the other reason why we kept them loose, you can see how much play is in here. And when you're flat towing you wanna keep this centered as much as possible to reduce wear and tear on your equipment. So the other reason we want this loose and lined up we want this to be easy to take on and off. If it's too tight or too loose, it's gonna be a real pain and that's not what you want when you're flat towing and trying to have a good time out here. So once you're happy with the alignment on your Jeep and the way that it comes on and off you can snug up the brackets to the arms. Now, there's not gonna be any torque values but I do recommend using Blue Loctite and they say you're gonna have two layers of protection there. You're gonna have a split ring lock washer, and Blue Loctite holding these together. It's advisable to check these out once in a while. Make sure they don't get loose on you. Hardware's gonna be 19 millimeter. Now I'm using a torque wrench just to make sure that these bolts are uniformly tight. Like I said, there's no torque specs on here but this is grade five hardware. And so I have a torque range that I'm looking for on this to keep it together. Now with our brackets mounted, go ahead and test fit the crossbar. Yeah, so I'm actually gonna make an adjustment. This one, just by torquing it down it moved it in a little bit. And you may have to do the same thing. It should be able to slip on and off easily. Even though we have movement in the arms it should still be able to go on and off easily. This will drag in just a little bit. Once you're happy with the fit of your crossbar you can lock it in place with the pins. Now you're gonna notice graphics up here are saying yes and no. If you look at these pins, you're gonna see that the ring comes in at the bottom and at the top on the one side. So when these go in, they need to snap down and lock onto the shaft up here. If these go backwards, sometimes this is gonna hang up like that. That's really what the graphic's showing you right there. So you wanna make sure that you have positive engagement every time you do this. It doesn't matter so much if it goes from the left or from the right, just make sure that the ring is touching. That's gonna lock our crossbar into place. Now we can attach the tow bar. Now the adapter comes with pin and clips just in case either yours with your tow bar are worn out or if you just want brand new clips. So that is something that's nice as well. So from here out, you can either unhook your tow bar here or here at the the crossbar. And this was just one way to add a second vehicle to your flat tow list. Make sure you check out our website. There's other ways that you can do it as well, whichever one works for you best. That was a look at the Roadmaster Tow Bar Adapter on our 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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Richard S.
8/22/2021
I have now used it many times and it is still a good choice.