It's amazing to me that the relocation bracket buys you that much height lift on your spare, even with a 37" tire. Take a look at the distance between the bottom of the rear bumper and the bottom of your spare tire. and then take a look at mine. I may have 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch between the two...
The boat is exactly 3259 pounds.
So admittedly, the boat is on order and I have yet to take delivery - so it is sight unseen. I am supposed to be picking it up this Friday. Originally I was told buy a flat draw bar, no rise / no drop and it'd be perfect height. That obviously didn't work and...
Thanks for the link sir. Do you think that product would buy me the clearance necessary to get the trailer coupler under the tire to drop onto the ball? The pictures don't seem to show a lot of space after the relocation plate is on... but then again those tires are 35's and beyond, mine are...
Hmmm... I think you're onto something. For some reason, I was always picturing taking it off and leaving it off... I guess if worse comes to worse, I could always pull the spare off, hook up to trailer and then pop it back on.
Thanks for the lifeline.
I really, really hesitate to remove the spare tire. Seems like a kick in the nuts waiting to happen, so that's worst case scenario.
Reevaluating the hitch extenders as we speak. Thanks for stopping in with your insight. Much appreciated
Through research, I was looking at those earlier, but I also read that these weren't the safest / greatest to use... or was that being overly cautious? I have zero experience with them. Thanks for weighing in.
I searched the forums and surprisingly came up with zero results on this, I thought there'd be a ton of threads on a quick solution for this. Maybe I used the wrong search terms, IDK.
My spare tire blocks my hitch ball coupler, preventing me from using the correct hitch height necessary to keep...
Been using my 2021 4 door sahara to haul my camping gear for the past few years, and while I get by, it tends to squat the jeep pretty badly in the rear.
Fast forward to today, I'm getting an aluminum fishing boat that weighs 3200 pounds, so not far off the tow capacity of the jeep.
Long story...