Video Transcript for Trailer Hitch Installation - 2009 Nissan Murano - Draw-Tite

Today on our 2009 Nissan Murano we will be installing the Draw-Tite trailer hitch, part number 75647. I'll give you a couple of measurements to help you pick out accessories, like wall mounts, cargo carriers, and bike racks. From the top of the receive tube to the ground, there is about 12 3/4 inches, and from the center of the hitch pin hole to the outer edge of the bumper is about 5 1/2 inches. Now, let's go see how it's installed. To begin the installation, we'll start by removing the three exhaust hangers at the rear of the vehicle. Now to remove the hangers, the first thing we will need to do, spray them down with some spray lubricant. With those sprayed down, we can take a pry bar and pop the exhaust hanger out of place.

Now that the exhaust is loose, we have to remove this rear tow hook, and to remove that we have four bolts that we'll need to remove. Those two and these two bolts up here. Now that everything is out of the way, I'll go and show you the attachment points for the hitch. This hole here, closer to the exhaust, there, the one on the back by the exhaust hanger. Now the mounting points on the passenger side are just a little bit different. We will have two on this vehicle.

Well, this one in the front, nearest to the exhaust, and this other well nut back here by the exhaust hanger. Now before mounting our hitch, we're going to go back to those mounting holes, spray some spray lubricant in there and clean them out. We'll use a tube brush. This is also available on our website. It is part number 814092. Once we clear that one of all the dirt and debris and road grime that might be built up on those threads, well continue to the other four mounting locations and we'll repeat that process. Now with that cleaned out, we'll check our threads.

Make sure the bolt goes in easily, and doesn't catch or cross thread. That one looks good. So we'll continue to the other four and repeat that process. This is the hardware we will be using to install our hitch. Its the bolt and a conical tooth washer.

When we put the washer in place, we want to make sure that these teeth face up towards the hitch. We'll use that for four of our mounting locations. On the fifth mounting location, which is the one closest to the driver side, we'll use the smaller bolt and the smaller conical tooth washer. The same process, just make sure the teeth on the washer face up towards the hitch. Now, before we put our hitch into place, we'll have to remove these two push fasteners, and allow our rear facer to swing out a little bit, to gain clearance. Now to remove the fasteners, take a flathead screwdriver, slide the center pin out, and the fastener releases. All right, this one helps to have extra set of hands to help lift the hitch in place. We'll start over on the passenger side. We'll lift the bracket up above the exhaust. Now, this mounting location right here is the one where we're going to use that smaller bolt. Now that the hitch is in place and the hardware is then hand tightened, we'll go ahead and take our impact wrench and tighten it down. Now with all the bolts tightened down, we need to torque them to the recommended amount in the instructions. Now that we have the hitch on the car, and torqued to the recommended specifications, we need to re-secure our exhaust hangers. Now, we'll go back to the rear valance taps where we removed the push pin fasteners earlier, we'll use a zip tie included with the hitch to secure those taps in place. Now the zip tied in place, go ahead and cut off the excess. And that concludes today's installation of the Draw-Tite trailer hitch, part number 75647 on our 2009 Nissan Murano. .