In this video I bring you along as I install a hitch on a 1990 Ford F-150. Its a 10k lb Curt hitch and the install is super easy. I also install a 4 prong trailer wiring plug.
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The refer to the 1990 Yes you heard it right, 1990. that's the F-150 It's got the big 5-0 and we got to put that up here and I don't see any holes, she just flat. So I'm assuming we have to drill some holes I think step one. What we're gonna do is uh, open up tape, get out the destructions.
We also have a plug and play four prong flat. They wanted lights only on this thing. Uh, the lady said they did not want a brake controller. so what do they got going on here? So lucky lucky somebody already tapped in so we may not even need that I wonder if this little guy works? We still might do it the right way though because I think our little guy plugs into there so we might take them tapped off there.
go back to Step One put that there and there. Get on the knife right. Needs a new blade. There's our construction and our Hardware and this side we have our light kit.
Hopkins North America's number one brand. uh, self-proclaimed Anyway, this one's right there. yeah and this is the no tap type which I think it looked like that connector up there where we just plug it in so we might have to get rid of those vampire connectors. We'll see see what's going on up there.
Looks like this truck's been oil sprayed so that's good. Well we got 1973-97 F series old body style Bronco and 67 to O2 Dodge full size and 78 to 97. Bronco Wow. Pretty.
Universal uh hitch if I Do say so myself. Now let's see. I'll read these and then I'll figure out what we need to do. It looks pretty simple.
I Imagine we're going to drill some holes. It says it weighs 47 pounds. If you're a professional, you do it in 30 minutes. If you're a Diyer, it's going to take you 50.
drilling required. no trimming required. We're under the gun now son. First try a couple inches and eight.
We need to get the ball here out of the way. Oh, she's only in our torque setting too. Otherwise I think our tongue is or you know the new hitch is going to come right here and this might be in the way. or at least difficult to remove it at least.
And then we do have to drill some holes. Direction says sticking up on the frame. there's some Factory rivets I Don't know if you guys can see them, but one there and one over here and evidently there's a Mark or a hole in this hitch that'll line up with that and then we punch some holes. Are you over that rivet buddy? Yeah.
okay. right there. Okay, Oh right there. Sounds like the police still got it there.
Yeah, okay, okay. over that rivet. Yeah, a little bit. don't let go.
it'll whack in the head. okay. doesn't want it to stay or doesn't want to fall down. Oh look at that.
Perfect. So the rivets in the middle, front to back. Anyways, we have it centered that way. we can't Center it left to right because it hits the bumper bracket there.
but we just needed her up on the frame round. Same thing on this side. This rivet here sits more or less in the center, but you know, equal front to back. a little gap on this bumper bracket. We could scooch it this way. a whisker, but that's right in the middle there folks. We're just going to let that just touch. We don't need to jam it up there, just just touch it.
Your Astro it's your ts29. it's your hyper steps. Some of the best drill bits on the planet. Starting out with 5 16, we need to end a half inch.
We're just gonna eyeball the center here that looks about right in that one. This one's pretty forgiving here. That one looks pretty good and of course we have this one back here which will move our vice grip out of the way. We need to walk that a little bit this way.
Oops. and now that quick tightening my Chuck did I They've got flat spots on these bits on the shank. it'll line up with your Chuck This guy can figure out how to use a drill. There we go.
Center punch fit where we need them I Think they all look pretty good. This one need to go this way just a little bit more. a little bit further back there. now.
we'll put her down in first gear and let her eat. You won't find a better drill bit folks. I'm gonna tell you right now don't want them Landing in your pocket. Thank you.
Do the same thing on the other side. Once you got the other side done, grab your half inch hyper step see, it's a reduced Shank if you needed enough about that and then just punch the half inch holes up through them. Thank you, there's that one. Oh also, make sure you know there's no wiring, harness or anything laying up in the frame.
That would be embarrassing. Hyper step bit to make short workout, you spend more time picking the stuff out of your shirt. There's that. there's our hole all done.
Put your bits back I'm serious folks. Let me tell you these bits. For a regular standard high speed steel bit, these things are amazing. I Was gonna get all I can't just drill it the first time with a half inch because you can do that.
They're hyper step. You can just start out with a half inch, but as a fridge with little pea shooters that are strapped to my shoulders I might not have enough push power and I'd be shivering too much by the time I went through. So instead of looking like a puss I Started out with the 5 16. but you can definitely start out with a half inch.
Uh, no problem. Great bits. You want better ones? Get on the Macro truck. get the hyper step Cobalts Made by the same company.
If you can buy them in the Astro box, you can only get the high speed steel. I Believe these. Drop our carriage bolts in there. Three for this side, let's stick them right up in here.
There's one and then this one. You have to put a plate on the bottom of it. I Believe Yes, sir. according to the picture I Think it's because it's the big hole and then we've got these flange nuts.
Let me hold that up in here. I'll stop getting on there and then we'll get this one here on the end. and then we'll very lightly snug these up as we remove our vice grips. Probably been further ahead to punch these holes out. Just a whisker bigger than half inch. Be a little bit easier. There's one bolt here that doesn't allow us to stick our Carriage bolt down through. Nope, it doesn't.
We're gonna have to move. We're going to take that bolt out. That's handy. Handy Andy Let me get a three-quarter socket.
We'll tighten this one. moves the vice grip sticker bolt back here. But yeah, we're gonna take one of the bumper bolts out to get this bolt in. Come on now.
I'm facing this way. Yeah, we'll get that straightened up in the end. but for it now that option, it's not gonna conk Us in the head. see if we can't get this one up in there spoon that just so this one is just a straight up flange nut.
Okay, there's that. Probably should have grabbed that there. I Don't know, that's a fixed welded nut here. We'll try this wrong side shot, but we'll just try it a little bit.
No, we're gonna need an appropriate size stuff here folks. 18 21 wrench I Don't know if we can. All right, try to get our wrench up on here box. end of it.
maybe not handy. Let me get a different 21. Oh God that time folks. So yeah, you've got to take that bracket Bolt out the way in order to get this bolt to come down through and then foreign I'm having is this bracket up on the inside hits the part of the frame that's curved.
I Might have to trim this a little bit because we drilled our holes right dead in the middle. Actually, if I put it in in that direction, it's not too bad. Let me, uh, it'll probably pull right down flat. Let me just see here.
all right. Had I known we would have drilled our whole inset just a little bit more. Oh yeah, we'll be fine. It'll be perfect bracket hole back in there and then go ahead and tighten those up to the Uh manufacturers recommended specifications or turn off your camera and use your half inch.
Oggy doggie. Oh, we're stuck now. If we can use the open end up in there just enough to hold it until she gets tight? probably not. It's kind of in a picture of a spot here.
There we go. so there's that. There is a speck in the paper. what to tighten those up at? you don't want them falling out and then on this other side, we gotta do the same thing.
that bolt on the other side is in in a bad spot too. All in all, that's a pretty easy hitch to install. Not as easy as the ones that 3M Holes drill though. those are great.
Yeah, we have to use the open box in here at least to get it off. All right. There's that, and hindsight, knowing what we know now what I would have done is these holes here I would have drilled them in towards the hitch probably a little bit further just to allow a little more clearance here with the curved portion of the frame so it goes down with your torque wrench and stick this back together. Oh, got a swap sockets here. That's it folks. Kind of a silly video, but we're gonna post it anyway. Somebody might want to know someday. Remove your stand of safety.
Take these little guys off I suppose. Look at that he Kurt Ten thousand pounder. Wow. yeah.
a little more hits and we have truck. As long as things aren't real green and nasty here plugged ow my fingernail. Frigold, you gotta get those uh, vampire connectors off there. You know those ones.
Go let me get a little screwdriver. We'll pry them apart, see what the wires look like? Nothing's green and crusty. We'll just tape them up. We'll get this off here.
out of the way. open up our new unit. pretty sure this is where it goes. Didn't read the directions, but it looks right.
Let's make sure. Yeah, that's gonna be the right one. Okay, and this essentially does the same thing that whoever did this does, except it won't get all corroded and rotted. There's one.
These things are probably okay, like down south or something. but here in the Prny the amount of salt we get, these are not a good idea. All the aftermarket remote start places around here use these things, except the only difference when they use them is they'll put it about. Well, if you could get it inside the connector, they would.
but they're gonna make darn sure that they put it right tight to that connector as tight as they can get it. So that way when it does turn green and well, now you got big problems. These ones look super clean. I'm going to tape over them.
We're gonna pretend we didn't see it. I Mean it's a piece of Scotch tape here. super 33. stuff is amazing.
Go get around there nice and tight, cut it clean. Go on to the next one done. We'll tape up the whole harness. Foreign.
There it is. Oh, come on, get a little fire. That stuff is super sticky. there's that.
And I'll do the last one there once you have all three of those covered up. Try to find the end of your tape again. There it is. And if I could give you a word of advice folks.
Scotch Super 33. if you're gonna buy electrical tape, just buy it. It doesn't matter how much it costs per roll, the roll is going to last you a really long time. but it is some of the best tape.
planets. Okay, don't get that crap from Harbor Freight or any of that other cheap crappy plastic feeling electrical tape Scotch 33 or Super 88. you'll thank me. There it is, so that's all good.
and then what we'll do. Give her some of the film up inside the terminals. keep it from going terminal. oops.
Plug that one in. Come around here and we'll find out where this one goes. Like so and then we're gonna zip tie this wherever we can keep her out of the way. I've got to move you folks.
Feels like there's a there's a holder right up here anyways. and then we're gonna a check to make sure it works and then B run it where we need to wire tie that uh Junction up in there. and then we're gonna run our wire down here. we're gonna give a little bit of Slack let's see over here. we're gonna wire tie this right to the hitch whether you like it or not. there's that one. and I'll do another one over here. this way it won't be dragging down the road.
We're even gonna make our wire ties going the same direction for our OCD viewers. So there's that. Now when you cut a zip tie, try to cut it right on a 45. Leave that nice and long.
If you can't get a good point that way, get a good point this way. just make that sucker so it is razor sharp. Okay, don't do that. Use a pair of flush cuts.
knock them off, flush folks. All right. there's that. So he has a little extra wire here.
Usually the trailers have lots of extra wire and then we've got the little rubber cap. Make sure you put that in the right direction. So when it comes over male female if we can say that in 2023, but his hurt he she plug. That's what its pronouns are.
We don't use pronouns here. Foods adjectives trying to make: Mr Don't call me super sexy here so that's my adjective. I'm kidding kidding, she doesn't call me that Okay, we're sick that are you there for right now. We'll try to stick that right there for right now.
We need to go get the very lovelinesses though and get a test light and make sure that works. Other than that, this Baby's all done. and I think we are not professional because I think it took a little over the half an hour mark. So we are somewhere between Pro and uh DIY Wow! Marker lights in four ways around so that should be all of our terminals here.
We don't need to check brake lights because if our turn signals work on our brake plates work, so first pin in brown should be marker lights, we've got Marco lights. This one should be blinking. Yellow is your left turn. green is your right turn.
If those work, then your brake plates work because this is not a converter box. Okay, you break lights and your turn signals around the same wire. so that's that folks. We got her done, stuck a rubber band around it to kind of take up the slack there folks.
I'll stick it here and he can figure out what he wants to do with it. A lot of guys will just like Loop them down through here up through here and then stick them in the hitch. But you got to make sure you keep these suckers: grease fluid film, dielectric, anything you want to put on there to keep it from getting corroded. I'm Gonna Leave it to that, putting the Curt hitch on the back your F-150s seems like it fits a variety of years.
Uh, of course the wiring is probably going to be slightly different if you're using a plug and play connector. or you can just do what the previous owner of this truck did with those you know connectors there, splicing a harness. Whatever you have to do, these trucks don't have any kind of module or anything like that. you just have to be cautious. Like that circuit that you're tapping into is designed to carry current for what's on the truck from the factory. So if you have a trailer that's really loaded up with bulbs, uh, or it has a short and ends up blowing a fuse, it's also going to blow the fuse for this turn and Signal or this brake light or the running lights. Um, whereas like more modern vehicles, have separate fusing for the trailer, so just bear in mind it's time to use your noodle when you're doing that. Um, this guy's only going to be pulling a small boat.
So uh, and I did check with them to make sure he needed a four pin instead of the five pin your Classic boat with hydraulic brakes that has the reverse lockout on it. So I did check before we get that comment. It is a four pin boat trap so that's it. I Want to check out your comment down in that comment section Questions: Comments: The Entity The Facebook You guys know where to find us.
notice my reviewers. If I can do it, you can do it. Thanks for watching! Thank you.
Thanks for the tip: ASTRO PNEUMATIC TS29 ONYX 29pc TurboStep HSS Reduced Shank Mechanics Length 1/16" – 1/2" Drill Bit Set — they’re surprisingly proud of them -$170-ish, but I figured “do you wanna save money, or do ya wanna drill holes?”
I’ll definitely be buying a set!
Gotta make ‘‘em razor sharp to elicit as many mother f****ers as possible.
Right on Way to go very good job, Eric., I might have to get some of those drill bits
That truck came from another shop that couldn’t get it done. They replaced the coils, wires, plugs, fuel pump, glove box, and rear tailgate before towing it to S.M.A.
That one was too easy for you you didn’t have to use to much of your brain Lol good video thanks
I'm glad you did this video. I like the '92-'96 body style on these older Fords.
Cut😂the zip ties at a nice angle leaving a really sharp point ! Who needs skin on your forearms anyway ? It’s the little funny things Eric that keeps me tuning into your educational videos. And, by the way, thanks for the 33 tip, I got that from you years back.
Thanks for the drill bit tip Eric. Somehow for 55 years I've been trying to punch holes in stuff with regular store bought bits. I had to drill a couple of holes in a pinion flange to accommodate a different bolt circle yoke flange on the driveshaft (couldn't replace the flange). I bought a set of the Astro bits — the 21/64th was a perfect fit to use the yoke flange holes as a guide. The Astro went through like butter – and doesn't even look like the bit has been used. A big win – another pro tip from a pro!!!
Great Job Eric 👍👍👍👍👍👍
No pronouns here either Eric. 👍👍
Awesome
A good tip I learned about electric tape or any tape for that matter is that you should never stretch tear your tape end as it spreads the adhesive out and causes you tape end to unravel prematurely. Always cut your tape end with scissors and or a knife and this won't happen. Just thought I'd share this tip. Love your videos and have for years. I've learned so much from you and your experience and knowledge. Thank you so much. Jay.
Nice video. I did this job on a 96 F150 years ago. I think I found the hitch in the JY on a similar truck. Not sure if it was a factory hitch or not but it looked like it.
Do you ever use a little lube or cutting oil on your drill bits?
Damn Sam…. you have sold me more tools than my tool truck dudes….. I no longer turn a wrench as a pro….(I now sell Liquor)….. but I do work on my own vehicles and am in the process of restoring a 48 Willys…. I'll be buying the matco cobalt hyper steps….. I did buy the tiny astro 1/4 air ratchet, and the vacuum coolant filler, and a bunch of other crap that I probably didn't need but it makes my neighbors feel smaller….. based on your recommendation ! Keep up the great videos!!!
Awesome job, Eric O. Beautiful old car.
But what do they have to rival the Maverick? That's what im looking for.
Hyperstep 1/2" drill bit set on Ebay $515.00;…holy crap…!
I l8v3 in South I don't use vampire connectors still not a good idea
3m scotch 33 is more stretchy so you can wrap it tighter. But have all the 3m flavors of tape my wife and son work at the Minnesota plant where it is made.
Should there not of been some rust prevention primer sprayed on the newly drilled holes?
That hitch assembly looked like a good place for some Threadlocker!
25 minutes, so You are pro then 🙂
I think them drill bits are also sold on the matco truck for like 3 or 4 times of the money!
nice frame
when my dad passed i got his 95 OBS bronco. every time i drive it it is like visiting him.
Scotch T-88 is pretty great too. Bell telephone standard electrical tape. Never gets hard and brittle.
Eric, If they already had an OEM tow hitch, Why do they need to install another hitch??
This does not look like much of a money making job, compared to other jobs that you could be working on.
Eric O your videos are never silly and I can probably speak for most of your loyal viewers in saying, we would watch you read the paper or make a grill cheese sandwich and enjoy it!
Those Scotchlok connectors aren't as bad in the south as they are in the salt belt but they still aren't any good.
tighten your chuck then reverse it by hand half a turn it locks it. I was doing it wrong all my life until I saw this tip somewhere. Try it!
great job, if i hadn't purchased my current drill bits a little bit ago, I would have jumped all over the Astro step bits….if they are good for you , they are good for me….rule one about drill bits…Do NOT cheap out on them….those 30 drill bits for 29.99 will cut the first time through paper thin metal and after that, they are trash…cobalt is the way to go…do not be cheap, you get what you pay for
I love curt! I’ve got a curt hitch I found in junkyard and replaced my rusty 2004tahoe stock unit. I’ve also got the curt large cargo carrier hitch folding unit and I love it! Only thing that kinda bugs me is my curt stickers have worn down from the years.
I thought in New York they called everyone "Youz guys".
Even though the bumper is strong enough, I'm going to put one of these on my '78 F150 when I eventually put it back on the road. Our cops down here in Louisiana have a "pattern or practice" of stopping and searching people in pickup trucks, for having a bumper-mounted trailer ball "obscuring" the license plate.
By the looks of the trucks undercarriage, it hasn't seen much salt in NY.
Careful showing that you have a fancy knife. Probably illegal in the PRNY.
Mr O, would it have behooved you to use anti-seize on the mounting bolts?
Those are my favorite trucks of all time. Thanks
OCD = critical?
"scotch-loc's"; you have to use the right size and seal them.
Hi Eric; How about wearing a t-shirt with Mrs. O's smailing face on it?
Funny thing is I was just looking to see if there was a hitch I that fit my 2015 Mazda 6 and found a Curt hitch on Ebay. I'm sure it's a bit different install but it seems pretty straightforward overall.
Repent to Jesus Christ “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,”
Philippians 2:3 NIV
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Eric, They've come a long way since the 90's. I took my 2017 GMC Sierra to a local Insta Hitch and they installed it with the 7 pin trailer brake socket in about 8mins. No hole drilling required. Two guys set about installing it and one took my money. I had hardly paid for it and they were done. They charged $249 for everything including the 7 pin socket. My Sierra had an electrical panel to plug the brake controller into up under the dash in front of the brake pedal. I bought a very inexpensive brake controller for about $89 and everything was plug-n-play. In addition to the manual slider control, the inexpensive controller has a sensitivity thumb wheel to set how hard the brakes come on, which is what I wanted. Just wondering: Have you ever heard of a Bundy Bumper? I have one on my 1990 Ram 250. It looks brutal and has a huge 1 1/4" hole in it for the ball. I just read where Bundy was purchased by Linwil inc. Another aftermarket manufacturing business. ben/ michigan
Eric, question. Seeing the frame on this older truck, I see it has surface rust at minimum. If you spray that frame with Fluid Film(in its current condition)… with the surface rust in place… will it slow or halt the rusting?
It is crazy how many years of Ferds are covered by that kit. It might even fit 1966 to 1978 LTDs and wagons. I had a Reese on my 76 LTD wagon and it used the same tailpipe as the Econoline vans of that era.
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Back in Sept. of 2007 I installed a DrawTite hitch on my 1969 Ford F250 Camper Special. My 7 year old son helped me with that project. We had a great time together. Now he's 23 and made a grandpa out of me! I no longer have the truck, but I've still got my son, and that's all that matters!
I wish the hitch install on the old F-1 went that easy. I went through 3, $20 bits just drilling the frame.
Well… I didn't plan on spending 160 on Amazon today. But I did.
Great hook up on the hooker upper thing. Thanks Eric, as always, if you can do errrr, I can watcher. lol
Hey can u give me some advice I have my own little shop and was wondering how much to charge for a timing chain replacement on a 2014 tundra 5.7
Also wanted to comment on how clean that f150 is..nice to see
Even on this normal wrk i always learn something from Eric or atleast am inspried to use my brain when working on my own junk.
Yes sir, I was hoping the zip ties on the hitch were lined up together.
We all know who is really OCD😂
Just watched you do something I've already done on the wife's Suburban….but still enjoyed every moment!
For who I am and where I'm at, many of you guys will think I use pronouns. I do not and will not. And thankfully I dodged using them because I refused to have a stick shoved up my nose towards the brain that desensitized and culled people into submission. There are the silent of the silent majority out in Commiefornia. Not all of us are creating this fantasyland for normal Americans. Freedom first.
Not silly at all. Thanks for the post and sharing of knowledge.
OH BOY!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! I HAVE A 1991 FORD F-150 and I want to put a hitch and power to it..AWESOME!!!
My OCD requires that all my tool handles are the same color😞
They are a impressive drill bit!😮
you could use liquid isolation instead tape.
every now and than an easy one can be a mini vacation !
Nice job, neat drill bits !
thanks for the drillbit suggestion. recently bought some "American made indestructible miracle bits "that were advertised well and turned out to be $150 smoke makers, despite actually following the directions.
Man I sure could have used that drill set years back when I was working. If I'd gotten a dime for all the scratches an cuts I got from zip tye ends I could have retired alot sooner…lol!
I love your channel!
Preserve your bits. Use cutting fluid whilst drilling. Great vid otherwise!!! (as usual)
Gravy!
My god that dog in the background spazing out barking up the neighborhood!
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Overall I see more DeWalt power tools used on YouTube than any other brand.
I have to smile when I read the comments about installing this exact same hitch on an "older" '90's truck. I had to loosen the bumper bolts on my '74 F250 SuperCab to get the rear bolts in just like Eric. I did have to splice into the factory wiring and I added both a 4 prong and a 7 prong with additional power from relay switched and fused sources. My truck has about the same level of rust showing but then I live in the PNW so no salt and not all that much snow either.
I usually use a Panduit wire tie tool to cinch and cut ties but if it's nowhere to be found, I use side cutters but not like every one else. I cut the tie across it's width instead of across it's thickness. My way does not leave the razor sharp wrist slitter stub.
I got your message, I will cease and disist. Keep up the good work.
What did you torque those bolts to EO??
You never cease to amaze me with your vocabulary.
"Vampire connectors". lol
The hitch is the best sold car ad on in the Netherlands, as a diy I idd a 1995 Renault traffic van , 1991 Nissan Sunny and a 2013 Mk7 VW Golf Variant. All 3 had predrilled holes for clip in nuts. the wireing loom for the traffic had plug for a towbar behind the left lightunit. the sunny had to be scotchlocked but did solder them. And the Golf has a 11 pole hitch socket instead of the normal 7, 11 pole has extra functions rear foglight and reverse 2 extra grounds for a constand 12 volt and a 12volt if the key is on. Handy if you tow a caravan with a fridge. the golf needed a special module for the lights. That loom goes all the way to the fusebox of the car and extends canbus lines. There are current sensors in the module. If there is something wrong with the trailorlights is displays on the infotament screen witch bulb is faulty. Most times there is wireing issue on the trailor.
The only problem that I've run into with the hyper bit set off the matco truck is that my matco guy will not warranty the smaller bits. 🤷♂
got a link for that razor knife?
I think its called a tranny plug.
liquid tape would have been the thing to use in that area, not sure if that's a thing in that area though.
Wait a minute. Trailers are supposed to have lights on 'em??
Nice
Them connectors are crap down here to. Especially with Florida salt air. Plug and play is the best way to go.
“Tighten them up to manufacturers specifications….or turn the camera off and use the 1/2 inch uggy duggy” 🙂🇺🇸🇺🇸😂😂
idk if you would happen to know this?
I have an 08 expedition wo the hd trailer tow package. So only the 4 pin connector and a blue wire for the trailer brake are at the hitch. I added the 30A fuse #13 and relay 56 in the front fuse box for the 12v battery charge on the 7pin connector. question is where is the 10 gauge wire for the 12v battery charge at? Is it stubbed somewhere or do i have to run it back from some connector?
Supposedly there is a trailer backup wire too fuse#63 – used for backup lights and reverse lockout on a surge brake trailer. dont know where that one comes from either.
I think this also applies to an F150. maybe you can do a video of adding a 7 pin connector to these trucks.
I had a front hitch installed on my tow vehicle which doubles as a mild off road vehicle as well. You never know. I had an RV store install it for $300 total cost (pre-record inflation period). They didn't have a lift. Young guy on his back and the older guy, well, pulling rank.
When I was a telecom tech in the pre historic era, we used a rubberized tape that once wrapped, was pretty much permanent. Of course the splice looked like a pregnant worm.
I wonder is Norseman is making those drills for everyone?
What a treat to work on that piece of old iron Nice to see the old stuff back when they made it right😎👍🇨🇦
Super 88 tape is the way to go. I know it's better because it costs me like $8 a roll. Clearly you are running some sort of fly by night operation sir.
Instead of fluid film or the like on electrical terminals, I've had really good results with no-ox electrically conductive grease. I use it for automotive and for my ham radio outdoor antenna connections.
It’s great that you taught us diy’s how to do a trailer hitch! Much appreciated!
I think the Panther chassis uses the same hitch from 1979-2012. It has the holes already drilled in the frame. GREAT VIDEO!
Have a few scars from ties that were not flush cut . . . one on arm required 4 stiches. If I ever find that guy, . . . LOL
"Just touch it!" is what I tell my wife.
You and Rainman Ray must have taken the same class on tip tie cutting