Trailer Hitch Installation - 2007 Chrysler Town and Country - etrailer.com

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Today we are going to be installing hitch part number 87717 on a 2007 Chrysler Town and County without Stow-and-Go seating. We are underneath the vehicle now, looking at the drivers side frame rail, and we are going to go ahead and point out the mounting locations for the trailer hitch. The first thing we want to do is remove this rearmost bolt that is going to provide the rearmost attaching point for the hitch. We are also going to use a carriage bolt and block, and it down through this hole here, making for the second attaching point. And then this route hole down here, forward in the frame, that will be the third attaching point. And again, we will be ping a carriage bolt and a block into the frame for that position. So the first thing we want to do is to go ahead and remove the rearmost bolt on both sides of the frame.

With the rear bolts removed from the frame, we want to go ahead and start to fish our carriage bolts and blocks into the frame. Again, we are going to be fishing into this location here as well as this location here. The instructions tell you to go ahead and try to fish the carriage bolts and blocks into the frame through either this access hole or this access hole, which neither one of them is large enough to actually get the bolts into the frame. An easier way to do it would actually be to fish your fish wire, which is provided in the installation kit, and you are going to take that through the hole that you are going into, and you can actually fish it all the way to the end of the frame here. There is a hole there that you can feed the fish wire through, and the blocks and bolts will go in there as well. That will make for the installation to be a lot easier. But you do want to make sure that when you thread the bolts and the block on to hold this end as well so it does not pull through the frame. And I am just going to go ahead and pull that through. There is a little bit of a rubber tab in there that may be interfering a little bit, but that can be pushed in or outward enough to get the block and the carriage bolt into the frame there.

Now, one thing I do want to point out here is that you can go ahead and loosen this bolt down just a little bit as you can see, when you are going to pull it through the frame, it gets caught up on that bolt there. So just loosening it down a little bit will give you enough clearance for the bolt and the block to pull through. You definitely do not want to pull the bolt all the way out, because doing that will misalign the weld nuts inside the frame. And there we go. I am going to go ahead and fish it through again through this access hole, and that will provide the second mounting location. You want to make sure that when you do put the bolt and the block into position that the bolt is lying lengthwise into the frame. Otherwise it will interfere with the proper location of the bolt. And once those two are fished in, we can go ahead and re-tighten this bolt up. And then we just want to go ahead and do the same thing for the other side of the vehicle, as well. With the carriage bolts into place, we can go ahead and put the hitch up into position.

You do want to be sure when you are putting the hitch up that you do not knock the carriage bolts back into the frame. We are going to go ahead and just tighten our bolts down now, and then we are going to go back through and torque them down. And now we are going to go back through and torque down our bolts to the specified torque ratings, which are listed in the directions. This will conclude the installation of hitch part number 87717 on a 2007 Chrysler Town and County without Stow-and-Go seating.

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