 one Chebren 1000 here. Today we're going to be putting this trailer hitch on the 2010 Chevy Traverse. We're also going to be putting the T connector for the wiring harness for the trailer. This is a class 3 hitch from Kurt. So let's get started on this thing. This one's pretty easy so let's get to it. And when you get this, take this piece of paper off. Your hardware, your mounting hardware, and instructions are inside here. Sometimes they're inside this. This is a two inch receiver. So I may have to go get my knife. I thought I had one. I do have one out here. Cool. So just take all this. All it is is just it's packing tape. And this is the way it comes. Like I said, this is a her, the her, a Kurt class 3. So like I said, sometimes they'll put your down inside here. Sometimes that's where they'll put your hardware, your instructions. I'll go over them with you. I don't need them. I've done so many of these. But this one is one of the easiest ones there is to do. I'll take you up under there and I'll show you. There's your instructions right here. Real simple. You only have six bolts. I'll go over that with you right now. So you're going to need four of these. They go up into weld nuts. That's up inside the frame. Now these washers, I don't know if you can see that. Is there like some caved or whatever? See it's like a dish on one side and it's got these little points. This side is flat. You always want to put these on like that toward the points. Go up. Because this is this is a lock washer is what that is. Now you do have to go through the frame on this one. It's not real bad. There's two holes right up under right in the center here where this is going to go. I need a couple. What this is going to be. What this is going to do is this is going to drop down in there and technically on this will actually be like this. But I'll show you all that when we get up underneath there. Like I said this is pretty straightforward. I'm not sure about the lights. I think they're over here on this in this panel that T connector. But there's everything we need right there. I'm going to get a couple wrenches. Here's the key the T connector should fit on this. What it does is you unplug your wire harness. You'll plug one end into here and the other end into your other piece of harness and then you run this down through and underneath. I'll show you all that in a minute. I got to get a couple wrenches and then I'll put you down here on the ground and we'll get started on this thing. Okay guys now start with right here underneath your license plate. There's just there's a cover here. It's just a plastic panel and on each side there's these little plastic clips. You just turn a quarter turn and this is where your hitch is going to be. So once the hitch is up in here you should be able to put this back on you won't see it. So we're gonna move this out of the way. The hitch is going to bolt right up here. It's going to bolt right here and right over here on top of the exhaust pipe is the other two weld holes right over there. Okay now they recommend you take them which it's easy enough to do is they recommend you take these down this exhaust pipe down. I don't like dropping these unless you have to because sometimes you can cause a leak up in front by pulling this down. I actually seen a video where a guy was doing it for U-Haul and he actually dropped it down even pulled down on that moor had no support underneath it. Then he supported this side of the of the the trailer hitch on top of this thing without this being supported. If you don't have another set of hands that's okay we can use the exhaust as support it strong enough. So I'll raise the passenger side up have the exhaust support it. I'll raise the driver side up and I'll put a bolt in to support it here and then move back over to the passenger side and put the hardware in there and then lastly we'll put the two bumper beam bolts in and tighten her down. Let's go ahead and do that. That's asking for an exhaust leak guys. Don't do that. This is where these holes I told you is where you're gonna have to put your nuts and your spacers down in so okay so let me get I've got my wrenches and stuff up on top there let me grab that and the hitch and I'll bring it down here and we'll get started on it. I'll try to film whatever I'll try to film the angles I can but like I said when if you're gonna help use this to support your hitch don't take it off of these don't take it off your mounts because you can do that then you can set it up there and support it. It's not a big deal but don't do it with that muffler hanging out in space. That's stupid I worked at Fruitton Park trailers I had to fix probably one I'm gonna comfortably say and convert conservatively say one to two times a week I had to fix a problem that U-Haul did because they're not mechanics at U-Haul's that U-Haul their salesman you know they just read the instructions and try to figure it out okay so let me get my stuff okay guys and I've got you zoomed in there a little bit but well it's not really zoomed in I just got a tight shot on it because I'm gonna show you how these are gonna work okay because this is going to have to go up in that hole set like this then the bolt comes down through this and through that hole and that's this is what keeps that from spinning on you okay so you can tighten it up so what you're going to do is you're gonna take this wire it's a little piece of wire they give you now some some hitch manufacturers like draw tight which I don't like them things they're cheap yes and that's what they are is cheap when you when it comes down to trailer hitch if you can you know try to try to pay up for a hitch because you know get a curd or a Reese try to pay up for a hitch because you know you don't want your your trailer coming off alright so some of them they'll have like a tab that you bend and you hold it I will put our handle nut in I will put the bolt and provided conical toothbrush room which is a great idea but either way it's you know it's fine so what I usually do is I'll start my bolt in here into this thing right here just like that alright this thing it's flat on one side and kind of curved on the other you're gonna want the flat side down so what you're gonna want to do is put the round side towards the boat and put this wire through here just like this okay it's really fun they're gonna be a co-saber man cuz you gotta really get this wire way up inside the frame and stuff just like I said it's one of the easiest ones now I'll take them put a little bend in that bring it through that hole okay then you're gonna take this little guy or little or a little stop there we're gonna put them up in there first just like that now move them out of the way so you can get your bolt you're not supposed to have to modify these in any way but sometimes I've had to make these holes bigger to fit the boat might be that might be what I have to do on this one now okay but just be mindful that that sometimes you may have to have to make them holes a little bigger fords every time it'll say no drilling but every time you have to make that hole bigger for these nuts to go in when do the same thing on your side now we'll leave this hanging we'll leave this hang for a reason we'll leave it on here because if I'm putting this hitch up and I knock it bolt up through there it's gonna be I'm gonna have a hard time getting it back this way I can just pull it back through okay so I'll show you again the other side it's it's real simple it can be tedious if you're not good at fishing this kind of stuff but I mean it's not hard guys it's really not if you're any kind of do-it-yourselfer you you won't have any problem with this the instructions for these Kurt hitches are very very clear and easy to read some of them are are harder than others some of them you gotta pull the whole bumper cover off of the vehicle just to put you know just put a hitch on it and it's crazy some of them the hitch will go right on you have to hit your own in five minutes but you gotta pull the bumper cover off and all kind of stuff get the wiring to work to get your wiring to fit up in there okay so let's try it let's do this one again just one more time so and these are the only two on this particular vehicle that you're gonna have to do this to some vehicles you got to do it to all of them you know every bolt six bolts and if you have to you can pry that over if you want go ahead and drill it or you know pry out a spot to where this bolt goes because just don't do it on this hole but you can do it on this big square hole you can make it bigger if you want before you even start if you think you're gonna have problems there's no there's no issues with that you can do that and other one went right in didn't I may go ahead and make this one a little bit bigger yeah I'm gonna go and do that and I'll show you how I'm gonna do that hang tight just a second we'll make this one can you guys even see what I'm doing oh no my camera fell so anyway I am going to just get something and pry this open just a little bit make it a little bit bigger like I said I'm gonna leave these on here now we're gonna put the pitch up in here I'm gonna try to find an angle for you guys so you can see what I'm gonna do I'm gonna start with these two okay instead of one side to the other I'm gonna start in the center so hang tight let me get you a different angle okay so this is about the best shot I can get yet so let's try to get this lifted up I've got my wires ran through the holes on the hitch set this up there on to the said because it's still mounted I'm gonna hold this with my knee and I'm just gonna pull that wire that wire will just pull right off I'm gonna start me a knot on here don't tighten these don't tighten any bolts until you get your pitch all the way up in there now this one same way just pull that wire down off it stretches right off it's like that let me spin you around here right up here I know I may have to get a light for you guys hang on let me go get a light okay now we're gonna put our bolts in here I don't know if you guys can see that anyway these are three-quarter three-quarter head bolts now what I usually do which I've already done it with this one is take one of your bolts run up into every hole that you're gonna be using the weld nut in okay and what that does is clean it out now if you've got if you got those little rubber plugs that you got a pop outer than plastic plugs you probably won't have to do that because your threads are probably clean this one didn't so I just ran it up through there all right I just ran up through there with this one now the other side the muffler side I'm gonna I wasn't able to do that so I'm just gonna run them up in there's what I'm looking at here see and these are pretty clean so I'm gonna have to do that and these holes are slightly slotted so that way if you gotta move it around a little bit you can I don't know what you're seeing there because right up on that bend anyway it's the same as the other side I'm not gonna drop this muffler because I'm just going to use a wrench and tighten them up up there so let me get them get these two started and then I'll show you what it looks like everything's tight really raunch on them get them tight there is a torque spec but I know a lot of you guys don't have torque wrenches that's why I showed you this way just tighten it as tight as you can get it okay use a half inch drive if you can if not you can use a 3h drive I did but it's very long just make sure you got them tight now this is going to go back up in here there's those four little tabs they go up in the bumper and then you just put these in quarter turn same way with this one stick it up in quarter turn whoops quarter turn and there we go now let's see what it looks like I forgot to mention guys that these two bolts are extra that's because sometimes down here where we had to put those spacers in sometimes they will have weld nuts already in in that case you would use these two but in our case it didn't happen we had to use the spacers so that's why we have two extra so there you go so see it'll tell you here it may have existing weld nuts not present on all vehicles ours did not have them but if yours does you won't have to use those you won't have to use the spacers you'll just use these two nuts you'll use all six of these but again if you don't have the weld nuts like we didn't who have to use you'll have to use these so I just want to let you know if you got two of these extra don't be alarmed okay so this is for a Buick Enclave Chevy Traverse GMC Acadia Saturn Outlook if you have any of those it was it would be the part number is 13424 okay so that's part number for this so that's if you have any of them them vehicles there can't even tell there's a hitch on there look at that guys I know the sun's bright but can't even tell there's a hitch on that on that car that cool but I sure you there's the hits right there I had one come in the shop one time one of these it was an Equinox pretty much the same thing and guy wanted a new hitch we ordered a hitch and wiring harness and everything he come out or he brought his vehicle out when everything came in I got everything ready backed it into the shop and pulled that piece of plastic off there and there was already hitch and wiring on it so we kind of lost the sale on that one but you know you're not gonna charge a guy for that he didn't know was on there so I showed him just turning things half a turn stick that up inside put your your insert into your receiver pull what you're gonna be pulling when it's not in use put your receiver or your insert and what are your one of your little cubby holds is cubby holds all three this thing and bam put your little plastic thing on you can't even see that hitch that's pretty cool all right guys now I'm gonna do trying to get out the sun for you I'm going to do the wiring harness the T connector in a different video just in case you need to know one or the other you don't have to sit and fast forward through the part you need or whatever to the you know so I'm gonna do it in a separate short video as well so thanks for watching guys real simple like I said if you got to make him square holds a little bit bigger like I showed you I kind of had to on that one what you can also do is grind you know a flat spot off the head of that bolt don't grind the whole bolt off of course but you can grind a flat spot off the head of that bolt make it go right up in there it's fine I've done it doesn't hurt anything so anyway thanks for watching Shade Bear the myth man legend I'm gone for now Sun's bright and we'll see you guys in the next one bye bye guys and take care