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Mike Cenni - 29 Jan 2006 22:44 GMT

I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8 Does
anyone have experience in doing this? Thanks.

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Dad - 30 Jan 2006 02:29 GMT

>I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
>http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8
>Does anyone have experience in doing this? Thanks.

No different than any other car. I've taken them off a C3 and put one
on a C5, no problem. I have no idea how it handles as it was for a
club member towing a trailer with a wheel chair for her and his golf
clubs. Can't believe the price they get for them.

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Big Al - 30 Jan 2006 06:14 GMT

> >I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
> >http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8
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> club member towing a trailer with a wheel chair for her and his golf
> clubs. Can't believe the price they get for them.

I put a hitch on my tri-power 69 427 and towed a small trailer from St.
Louis to Ft. Lauderdale, about 980 miles. It had new front tires put on the
day before I left. By time I got back the tires were about shot. Somehow the
added weight in the rear screwed up the front end alignment?? The trailer
had two motorcycles on it. One funny thing, on the way there the engine just
quit. Was going down the highway about 75 MPH and it just went dead. I
pulled off the road and coasted to a stop right in front of Honest Charlie's
Speed Shop of all places. The rotor punctured and it took all of 15 minutes
to find it and fix it.

Al

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'Key - 31 Jan 2006 01:47 GMT

>> >I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
>> >http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8
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>> and his golf
>> clubs. Can't believe the price they get for them.

Dad,
I had alway heard that towing was not good for the rear
differential.
it that a myth or something?
would a hitch hurt my 84 - c4 ?
Would it mess with the line up, like Big Al has stated ?
Really would like to know the facts..

g'day

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> I put a hitch on my tri-power 69 427 and towed a small
> trailer from St.
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>
> Al

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Tom in Missouri - 31 Jan 2006 02:55 GMT

The rear end problem was real with '63 to '79. I'm not sure if the aluminum
rear in '80-82 had this same problem but it may have.

The problem is that one design of one hitch was to mount to the spring bolts
on the rear end cover. There was a hinge pin so the hitch could drop out of
the way for the spare tire. The hitch was then supported by a bracket that
attached to the bumper braces.

As a trailer bumped back and forth, it would strain the spring bolts or the
rear cover "ears" where the spring bolted to, eventually breaking either the
bolts or the cover..

>>> >I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
>>> >http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8
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>>
>> Al

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'Key - 31 Jan 2006 22:51 GMT

> The rear end problem was real with '63 to '79. I'm not
> sure if the aluminum rear in '80-82 had this same problem
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> bolted to, eventually breaking either the bolts or the
> cover..

thanks for your reply..

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>>>> >I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my
>>>> >1993.
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>>
>> g'day

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PJ - 31 Jan 2006 03:42 GMT

>>>> I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
>>>> http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8
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>
> g'day

Gotta straighten out this rumor -- it's the front differential that
takes the hit from towing

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RicSeyler - 31 Jan 2006 16:19 GMT

????? LOL

> Gotta straighten out this rumor -- it's the front differential that
> takes the hit from towing

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grayfox - 30 Jan 2006 14:54 GMT

Have one on my 1993..to tow a jet ski or Boston Whaler..no problems..cost me
$25 at the NCRS swap meet a couple of years ago....some guys will blame
every new problem they run into on the fact that they installed a
hitch..just do and enjoy it...however the hitch box can be seen from the
back and that turns off a lot of people.

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lab~rat >:-) - 31 Jan 2006 13:19 GMT

>I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
>http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8 Does
>anyone have experience in doing this? Thanks.

I may be just me, but for some reason the idea of a hitch on a Vette
seems reprehensible...
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RicSeyler - 31 Jan 2006 16:20 GMT

Me too!!!

BUT...... iffin you are gonna travel around to the shows and do the lawn
chair
thingie, I guess <shrugs shoulders>

lab~rat >:-) wrote:

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>Do you want polite or do you want sincere?
>

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Dad - 31 Jan 2006 16:50 GMT

>"RicSeyler" <ricseyler@SPAMgulf.net> wrote in message news:D4MDf.19
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>Me too!!!

>BUT...... iffin you are gonna travel around to the shows and do the
>lawn chair
>thingie, I guess <shrugs shoulders>

So you would use one to haul your thingie??

I saw one on an Eldorado yesterday that had a flat receiver in stead
of the normal square one. Looked like maybe 1/2 X 2 1/2 opening.
Anybody know who makes that? Tucks up very nearly hidden behind the
bumper cover.

Dad
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RicSeyler - 31 Jan 2006 20:44 GMT

Maybe the Street Rod market?

>I saw one on an Eldorado yesterday that had a flat receiver in stead
>of the normal square one. Looked like maybe 1/2 X 2 1/2 opening.
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Dad - 31 Jan 2006 16:35 GMT

>>I am thinking of putting this trailor hitch on my 1993.
>>http://www.hitch-web.com/proDescrip.asp?ProductCode=6103&OID=8
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> lab~rat >:-)
> Do you want polite or do you want sincere?

Not you at all but in this case, the C5, the guy thought more of his
wife than he did the Corvette. It's an automatic so his wife can drive
it but beside having a transmission cooler he changes the transmission
fluid every spring when he returns. His C4 had a hitch also but I've
no idea how much of its miles were put on pulling a trailer. It tows
that trailer to Florida and then will go to Arizona for the rest of
the winter before returning to Ohio.

He gets allot of ribbing on tours but it is still an automobile. To me
a wing, graphics, aero kit, high rise hoods, fox tails and mud flaps
looks worse that a trailer on a Corvette. For that matter my '72 bugs
the hell out of me because it's not its original color. We all enjoy
them for different reasons and that's ok, they belong to the owner and
he can do it his way.

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Dad - 31 Jan 2006 17:04 GMT

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Barking Rats - 31 Jan 2006 18:28 GMT

> I may be just me, but for some reason the idea of a hitch on a Vette
> seems reprehensible...

Picture this...

'72 big block coupe, air, leather, power everything, towing a pair of
Harleys around the country.

My '72 led that life before I bought it. "Sweet," would have be my
observation had I seen it.

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'Key - 31 Jan 2006 23:06 GMT

>> I may be just me, but for some reason the idea of a hitch
>> on a Vette
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>
> My '72 led that life before I bought it. "Sweet,"

that's the idea...

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'Key - 31 Jan 2006 23:03 GMT

> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:44:02 GMT, "Mike Cenni"
> <mcenni@wi.rr.com>
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> lab~rat >:-)
> Do you want polite or do you want sincere?

not to me...
my sport is also motorcycling. (has been my whole life)
I use to ride my Harley wherever I wanted to go. It didn't
matter how far.
Then I got older,
The long rides and fighting the elements are not as much my
idea of a good time:-)

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W. Moore - 01 Feb 2006 23:02 GMT

In '88 left the cold northeast for the warmer southeast. '75 Vette pulling
a two rail trailer with 2 Harleys. About Petersburg, Va. heard a loud
squealing noise. Turned out to be a wheel bearing on the trailer. Found an
alignment shop off I-95 to take care of the bearing that had welded itself
to the spindle. Continued our journey without incident and am driving the
Vette today without any adverse effects on the car. Spare tire clears the
hitch when dropped down.

> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:44:02 GMT, "Mike Cenni"
> > <mcenni@wi.rr.com>
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> and the eyesight to tell the difference.....
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'Key - 02 Feb 2006 19:05 GMT

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> In '88 left the cold northeast for the warmer southeast.
> '75 Vette pulling
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> tire clears the
> hitch when dropped down.

thanks for your reply "W. Moore"

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>> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:44:02 GMT, "Mike Cenni"
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>> and the eyesight to tell the difference.....
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