Sunday, 26 September 2010

Trailer Hitch Installation - 2008 Honda CRV - etrailer.com

www.etrailer.com Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information. Today we are going to be installing Valley hitch part number V82163 on a 2008 Honda CRV. Okay we are underneath the vehicle and we are looking at the driver side frame rail. Here towards the end of the frame you can see we have got one, two existing weld nuts here in the frame. Those are going to provide the two attaching points on the driver side of the vehicle. It may be necessary on some models to go ahead and clean these weld nuts out if they have built up road grime or rust in them. Over here on the passenger side, we are actually going to be using the same attaching points, the two weld nuts. As you can see we have got the exhaust here in the way so we are going to go ahead and need to lower that down off of its hangers. Remember when moving the exhaust off of it's hangers, it helps to spray the studs down with a spray lubricant like WD-40. It makes the removal of the rubber hanger off of the studs a lot easier. You want to do that in both locations. And then you can just take a pry bar or even a pair of pliers. Just come in behind it and pry the hanger right off. And we are going to do the same thing here on the outboard sided one. Just let that lower right down to where the exhaust tube will rest on the sway bar here. Next we are going to go ahead and clean out the weld nuts. To do that again we want to use a spray lubricant and ...



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