Thread: Height adjustable tow hitch

Bulletman.. take or disregard as you see fit..

Are those mcgowanstan regs?

Mine fails..
but then I dont have a ball anymore.....( see pic)
and the place where the ball used to be is around 200 from the receiver pin,
the actual place where all the bending takes place is a further 150 out...

no thats not me....

What that 160 measurement does is cause much stress when reversing up to your van, my measurement is 200 and with the old ball and coupling I had a ONE cm gap between the cup and the tailgate,, only took a couple of nics and-- the new McHitch arrived..

I see plenty of Cruisers using adjustable hitches....

Thanks Pedro ,

I used an adjustable hitch on the D3 and from centre of the pin to centre of the ball is 240mm and never had a issue with that set up for over 6000kms..
The boss is keen on a D5 so i decided to read the manual and im sure it says centre of ball to centre of pin no more than 160mm.. yet the bloke we bought the van off towed it with a D5 and he gave me the adjustable tow hitch with the van... but i never did ask if thats what he used..

Ive tried to find pics etc of tow set ups of vans on the back of D5s with no luck yet.. if you were to use that measurement the same issue would arise , the van would be very close to the back ... prolly too close for my liking..

Mcgowanistan... or cookistan now is bloody cold..

Cheers for the reply.

Bulletman

The Boss may be onto something... the most prevalent LR I saw towing a van in WA were D5's....