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Fully welded vehicle trailer hitch is strong and durable. Draw-Tite's Tested Tough guarantee ensures that this hitch exceeds industry standards. The combination of an E-coat base and a powder coat finish provides excellent rust protection.
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Each Draw-Tite trailer hitch receiver undergoes extensive fatigue testing and static testing with the ball mount that is either supplied or recommended for use with that particular hitch, thus ensuring results that are applicable to real life use. Fatigue testing is also conducted on hitches rated for use with weight-distribution systems.
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Today on our 2008 Subaru Outback Wagon we'll be installing the Draw-Tite Hitch, part number 75560. Here's what our hitch will look like once it's installed. Next, we'll go ahead and give you a couple measurements to assist you in selecting accessories for your new hitch. From the center of the hitch pinhole to the outermost edge of the bumper is six inches. From the top of the receiver tube opening to the ground is thirteen and a half inches. This will assist you in selecting accessories such as a ball mount, bike rack, or cargo carrier.
We'll now go ahead with the installation. Before we lower the exhaust we're going to put a safety strap underneath so that after we remove the rubber isolators that hold the exhaust in place we can use the safety strap to safely lower the weight of the exhaust. Now with my safety strap in place we'll go ahead and point out the rubber isolators that will need to be removed. Starting here, in front of the rear axle, while it's not necessary, we're going to go ahead and remove it to give ourselves a little more working room. The four that are required to be removed, there are two on the inside, one for each muffler, and two on the outside for a total of four. To remove the rubber isolators from the metal hangers we're going to spray each one with a spray lubricant and then use a pry bar and pliers to remove it from the hanger. Now with the rubber isolators out of the way we'll go ahead and use our safety strap to safely bring down the weight of the exhaust.
Next, we'll need to remove one of the manufacturer's bolts. Here, the forward bolt, closest to the front of the vehicle, will need to be removed. This will then become the rear attachment point for our hitch. We'll need to do this on both sides. Keep in mind as we're removing our hardware and installing our hitch they're identical on each side so each process we do here on the driver's side will get repeated identically on the passenger's side.
Now we've exposed the rear attachment point, we'll go ahead and expose the forward attachment point by removing the rubber plug here at the middle of the heat shield. It exposes the weld nut built into the frame by the manufacturer. Now before we attempt to install the new hardware into the hole we're going to go ahead and clean it out. We'll use our spray lubricant and half inch nylon tube brush, part number 814092. Spray down the threads real good and then clean it out. Quick tech tip: To make sure your threads are cleaned out you can take one of the new fasteners, run it into the well nut to make sure it'll go in nice and easily.
Next, we need to determine how many blocks are needed, one or two, to compensate for the space of the bracket that's bolted to the rear attachment point and bumper. As you can see, if we install one block at the forward attachment point it'll be enough compensation and it'll bolt our hitch up evenly. Next, we're going to have a fifth attachment point, and this will be utilizing the manufacturers tow hook. Going down through the tow hook, it'll go through the hitch, where we'll install a half inch conkle tooth washer and nut. Keep in mind that the teeth of the washer will face the hitch. We're now ready to put our hitch in place. It's a good idea to get an extra set of hands to help you hold the hitch while you install the tow hook hardware to hold the hitch up in position. Now with our center attachment point hardware holding the hitch in place we'll go to our forward attachment point here at the frame, we'll slide the block between the hitch and our attachment point, then, using the new ten millimeter bolt and conkle tooth washer, again the teeth of the washer will face the hitch, we'll go through the hitch, through the block, and into the weld nut. We'll install each fastener finger tight until we have them all in place. Now with all our hardware installed we'll go ahead and tighten it down. Once we have all the fasteners tightened down we can go ahead and torque to specifications as indicated in the instructions. Now with our hitch tightened and torqued to specifications we can go ahead and re-install the exhaust. With our exhaust re-installed we're ready to hit the road. That'll complete our install of the Draw-Tite Hitch, part number 75560, on our 2008 Subaru Outback Wagon. .
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (328 Customer Reviews)
Fully welded vehicle trailer hitch is strong and durable. Draw-Tite's Tested Tough guarantee ensures that this hitch exceeds industry standards. The combination of an E-coat base and a powder coat finish provides excellent rust protection.# 75560 Draw-Tite Trailer Hitch 2" Receiver, for 2006 Subaru Outback. Video for 2008 model has good tips. However, 2005 and 2006 are different. The same 4 capped factory nuts are there, but only the two rear-most are used. Further back, a bolt must be removed from the angle iron bracket holding the rear bumper on. One on each side. Toss the bolt and use longer bolt, supplied. Before removing the bumper bolt, use a crow bar to do some bending. Very close fit between rear-most hitch anchor points and bumper bracket. Mine didn't fit. Car was too wide and hitch too narrow. Barely. Vertical part of bumper bracket angle iron needs to be bent in. Leave bracket bolts in to insure the right part is stressed and bent. Two inches of the forward most end of the angle iron has a gap between horizontal and vertical. -They don't meet at the corner. Helps in bending the vertical. 2005 install video by etrailer was very helpful. Theirs fit right out of the box. 711997
Got this hitch for my 05 Outback XT. I got it mainly for my bike rack carrier, but also so I can tow a small utility trailer in the future. Hitch was very easy to install (did it by myself). Had to tap out 2 holes due to rust, but other than that, install was smooth. I really like how it looks on my car. Had a few paint chips (I’m assuming from shipping or storage) that I had to touchup after I put the hitch on but that was no big deal. Customer service was awesome, I give a shout-out to Rose G for being awesome and helping me out. I would Definitely recommend etrailer to anyone for there trailer and hitch needs. 714799
Positive experience!! I had the hitch in hand after 3 business days from ordering. The hitch had ripped through the box on the top and bottom of the box, but no damage to it. It still made for a fun box for my son to play in and be swung around in. Installation was about 1.5 hours from the time of opening the box to completing clean up. The hardest part was getting the exhaust hangers off without a pry bar; a little elbow grease got it done. A couple reviews noted needing to remove the stock mud flaps. I almost did this, but was able to bend them out of the way of the exhaust hangers when lowering the exhaust. I did not jack up the car either which made for an easier method of placing the hitch since I was working by myself. I just balanced it with my forearm while placing the nut/washer on the tow hook. The rear-most bolts were in fairly tight, but we're able to be freed- best to have an extention on the socket so not to ram one's hand on the spare tire well. The front bolt holes were clean under the plugs removed and easy to thread the new bolt through, this on a 7.5 year old car. I only needed 1 metal plate for the front bolts. I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly everything went from purchasing to receiving to the videos on the website to installation. Etrailer was a very positive experience through and through. I am pleased at how well (easily) this hitch installed. We now we can load up our bikes on back with a Yakima Ridgeback. The Yakima swing out bike racks will end up too close to the bumper with this hitch and I believe the Hidden Hitch. Someday will may even pull a light trailer Thank you etrailer. Well done. 181729
I have orders a few hitches from etrailer and have zero complaints about any. The directions are clear and concise and the online installation videos are nice to go over before installation. I thoroughly enjoy ordering my towing related parts from this company. I do own a trailer rental company so to have such an easy experience with etrailer makes running a business that much easier. 620020
My vehicle is a 2009 Subura Legacy and this hitch did fit as recommended on your website. I ran into two problems: 1) Although the hitch was described as having a tongue weight of 400 lbs. My vehicle could not accommodate anything close to that while still keeping the hitch more than 2-inches off the ground. 2) The hitch protrudes about 5 inches from the rear of the vehicle and will sometimes scrape on the ground when going over bumps or entering a steep driveway without any load attached. Since this was my first experience trying to use a trailer hitch of any kind, plus wanting to carry a rear motorcycle rack. I was disappointed to discover it wouldn't work as I had hoped. The hitch itself is sturdy and well made. There was just no suggestion on the website that this hitch which was recommended for my vehicle might not work for my intended use. In addition to the hitch tongue weight, the vehicle itself also has a maximum tongue weight which must be considered. Subaru's are notably low to the ground making them unsuitable for towing heavy loads. 516108
Bought the hitch a week ago, and installed it yesterday.it wasn't difficult to install, even by myself. The hardest part I found was putting the exhaust back on the hangers. And unless you have at least some mechanical aptitude, you are better off having your dealer or personal mechanic install it for you. Overall I like it's engineering. It's hooked up to the frame rails and not the bumper. It should work for the life of the vehicle. 628414
I found the information on the etrailer site to be very informative and helpful. Found the install video to be "right on" except that I needed to drop both of my mufflers to get the hitch into position (2005 Subaru Outback LL Bean Edition 3.0). Other than that, the install went as described in the video, and very close to the estimated time. I've included a few pics. Very happy with the customer service from etrailer. Shipping was fast, communications regarding my order were excellent, and the product is a quality hitch exactly as described. Thank you! 32576
great product, and great company. hitch arrived on time, with good visibility & tracking information provided. packed nicely. installation was super easy, thanks to the video. almost everything went exactly as described in the video, with the one exception being: one of the existing bolts you remove when installing the hitch, goes thru a frame pate that was off a little bit on my car. i had to loosen the other bolts on the plate, position it a little better and re-tighten it back up. otherwise, the bolt would have never gone in. easy to correct! very happy with the product and etrailer's customer service! 170673
harlow f - 01/21/2016Thanks to good information from eTrailer, I was able to install my new hitch, alone, with tools from Autozone. I am a 49yo female small in stature. I had to think outside the box a bit for leverage, and especially remounting the muffler hangers. To remove the hangers, I ripped up an old t shirt, threaded it behind the rubber hanger, and pulled the hanger off the mount with all my might. It worked though. I used a single spacer on the front facing mount since there was a bracket of the same height closer to the bumper, as shown on the video. I think the job could have been done in an hour. Instead I had to trek back to the store early in the install for a 14mm socket to remove the bolt in the bracket on the car. I am happy with the install, and have mounted my Thule bike rack for next weeks camping excursion. Thank you eTrailer.com! 180727
2007 Subaru Outback Wagon I included some shots of the hitch from the rear showing the fit and clearance, which is good. It is recessed about 2 inches back from the bumper face. I would rather have it raised another inch closer to the bumper, but I am satisfied with it as is. It looks great and works great. Good experience all around. Good price, fast shipping, careful packaging, got the right items and the fit was good. I wrote for support and got a quick response that answered my questions exactly. These guys treated me right. 4801
Sorry, no pictures. I like the hitch and harness so far, no problems with towing my utility trailer. The only thing I might mention is that the harness outside of the car is rather long (2 feet longer then what I need), but that's not a problem as I just wrap the excess around the hitch frame, and save it for if I ever need it longer for some reason. There wasn't room inside the car under the mat for the excess length. I still remember how easy it was to install the hitch, just bolted up the the existing bolt holes in the cars frame. (Subaru Outback) 496557
Good service, good price, good product. 136880
Steven D - 06/24/2015Installation was as quick as described. However, there was some amount of work to remove the mud guards in order to drop the muffler system. Removal took some work since 3 different fasteners were used. I was working at home alone using a set of ramps to access the rear of the car, and it took some work to: 1. lift the hitch assembly into place. Hint, lift one side and loosely fit a bolt, then do the other side. and 2. lifting the muffler system into place required a set of straps attached to the roof rack and progressively raising each side. Maybe a younger person would find it easier, but it is either a two person job, or it requires some thought and experiment. 31601
The hitch came just as advertised and installed fairly easily. I had to use the free loaner tool program from a local auto parts store to clear the rust from two of the weldnuts. Once the rust was clear, installation was a piece of cake. This 2” hitch allows you to attach just about any bike rack you find on the market. 522453
The hitch was aligned perfectly so once I dropped the mufflers it bolted right up with no problems. Looks solid! 123009
Charlie O - 03/31/2015I bought this hitch for my 2009 Subaru Outback wagon in order to tow a small aluminum boat (14') and trailer. A coworker suggested etrailer.com and suggested the Class 3 hitch rather than the class 2 hitch. It is probably overkill for my needs, but I didn't care. Bigger is better. The etrailer.com website is great, with many photos and videos of the products, so I pretty much completely knew what I was getting into. And the site made selecting a compatible hitch a breeze. When the box arrived, I was a bit underwhelmed with the initial unwrapping of the hitch. The hitch looks great, but the bag of bolts and the instruction page(s) were taped to the end of the hitch making for a very unsightly and unprofessional presentation. The trailer hitch wiring kit I had bought was also in the box, and it too had several wraps of clear tape all around it... making me think that just maybe it was a returned item that they were reselling. The instruction sheet was also folded down to about 3"x4" and extremely wrinkled. My initial thoughts were that it had gotten wet, then dried and put into my box. With the poor packaging and since I have never purchased from etrailer, I was a tad bit concerned. The box itself was fine, in fact my cat LOVES it, but the rest left me wondering. The instructions were a bit cluttered stuffing them onto one side of a 8.5 x 11 piece of paper (in English) but they did come in French and Spanish too in case I was confused, and multilingual. Installation looked pretty straight forward, and since I have aftermarket mufflers which are much smaller than the originals (no they weren't for show or sound... the car is 9 years old, they rotted out and I wasn't going to pay for OEM mufflers) I didn't even have to remove the rubber isolators from the exhaust to drop it. Thanks Pete's Auto Parts in Schenectady NY! etrailer.com provides excellent videos to watch for my car, so once again I knew what to expect. However, the videos showed them using a car lift... how many DIYers have a lift? Or access to one? I used myself and a couple of stacked 4x4s to get the hitch in place. One thing nothing was mentioned about is that since my car is 9 years old and one of the rubber plugs on the "weld nut" (I learned what a weld nut is through this process, so that's good too) must have fallen off long long ago because the weld nut was quite rusted and I couldn't get the bolt into this hole. The other 3 were perfectly fine. I called etrailer.com (I was surprised that they were still there at almost 9 PM EST) and the woman I spoke with suggested I get an M10 x 1.25 tap and clean up the rust in the hole. She even went over their return policy in case I couldn't get the hole tapped and cleaned. But i got a tap and die set and it worked like a charm. I just finished the install and it went very smoothly, with the help of the 4x4s to hold it in place. The rust is obviously not etrailer's fault since i have an older car, however, they should consider mentioning in their videos that on older cars a thread chase or tap may be needed if things like this arise. And due to the configuration of the Subaru floor pan, the standard tap handle wouldn't work. I had to get creative and use some 1/4" extensions from my tool box to make it work, so this may have taken the installation out of the "easy" zone into the "medium" skills zone. I have not pulled the boat with it yet, but the hitch seems rock solid after torquing the bolts to spec and it looks great. I can't wait to take it out for a spin! I would love to have given 5 stars for quality, delivery speed, excellent website with videos and tons of photos, great knowledgeable tech support help and great price, but the initial packaging presentation and the hesitation it caused me forces me to knock one star off. Then I put in the wiring harness with the aid of the etrailer videos (I had to because the manufacture's instructions were worthless and garbage) and they got their 5th star back. 529549
Tom - 07/02/2019This is not an amateur installation. I would rate it a 5 out of 10. First, on the 08 Subaru the mud guards are not easily removed and the outside muffler hanger must clear them in order to drop the exhaust low enough to install the hitch. After removing all the rubber hangers (4 muffler, 1 exhaust), tape up the muffler hanger and bend the plastic mud guard out of the way on each side as you're lowering the exhaust. I did the install laying on my back with the rear of the car on ramps. the tape keeps the mud guard from getting scratched as mine did. Drop the exhaust pretty low using the safety strap. The hitch is easily jockeyed up into place by cocking one side up then the other. Keeping it up, that's the trick. I used both my knees while laying on my back and then got the center bolt on the tow hook installed. Install the plate and bolt first then you just have to thread the nut on and it will support the hitch so the rest of the bolts can be installed without having to hold it. After the hitch is installed I had to jack the exhaust back up as it was way to heavy to hold up and install the rubber hangers. remember to bend the mud guards out of the way again on the way up with the exhaust. Lube the hanger rubbers again with WD-40 before you re-install. Total time under an hour. I'm using the tow hitch with a carrier for my snow blower 24" Toro. Test drove it and it works perfectly. No more shoveling at Dad's and Mother inlaws. Probably won't snow now. This is a Draw Tite Hitch. Excellent quality. 153497
Easy to install, the most difficult part was removing the rubber muffler supports. The existing bolts were somewhat difficult to remove due to rust, but with a little leverage you shouldn't have any problems. It would be helpful to watch a Youtube Video prior to installation, but overall this was easier that installing the hitch assembly for my 2016 Outback. The real test will come in the spring when I begin to tow my Utility Trailer using it for yard work. 737792
Easy install. Still working like it sho uld. 736444
Great product 735516
Hitch is great. Install was not too difficult, lowering the muffler was the most difficult part in the process bc of the muffler hangers (got to use lots of lube). One of the bolts was difficult to install, but I suspect that’s more of a function of my car than the product. No regrets. Great product. Use it for a bike rack. It’s perfect. 727689
The hitch was easy to install and I have had 0 issues so far. 725644
Perfect fit, looks great! Super easy install, watch the video as there is more info than the instructions offer. 716641
GREAT PRODUCT. Install was a breeze after watching the provided video. All in all our took me under an hour to wrap everything up including the wiring kit. Having my son help hold up the hitch until the first bolt was attached was not necessary but it made life easier. We hooked up the Hobie and were off. 711249
Easy installation with thorough instruc tions. 710950
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