coloboardi

Hi Guys,

I need to tow a 12' trailer this weekend and was looking over my towing package and noticed an issue. The previous owner had a frame mounted Uhaul receiver installed, however, the receiver bar completely blocks the trailer wire plug (pictures below). If the previous owner had this installed, they obviously towed something, maybe just a bike rack? How would they have been able to hook up the trailer wiring? Any ideas on what I should do here?

chiph9

yeah, they probably just used it for a bike rack or similar.

Short term: I'd unbolt it and zip-tie it to the tube. Make sure it doesn't hang too low.

Long term: Talk to a welding or body shop about welding it to the tube (and painting it to prevent corrosion)

Chip H.

coloboardi

Thanks, Chip. What a pain in the butt.

OG Dada

iTrader: (10)

Easiest way is to just unbolt those 2 bolts, slide it down the bracket, then you can plug the wiring harness. Just make sure it doesn't hang too low, zip tie or whatever. But if you're gonna be doing this more often, just swap out the tow hitch to an OEM tow hitch, it relocates the bracket for the wiring harness plug so it won't be behind it like that.

coloboardi

Just a quick update on this, not that many would have this same issue. I unbolted and slid the harness plug downward. The trailer I'm towing is a 4 pin so I plugged in my 7 to 4 pin adapter and just screwed one of the bracket ends to the harness plug. Just enough so it hangs down past the receiver bar. No need for a zip tie, this should do the trick temporarily.

YoshiMan

Seriously? Whoever designed that hitch has probably never crawled under a GX at all!

chiph9

It's probably about cost, and not having a bracket that gets bent in shipping.

Chip H.

cj470lexus

Could it be thats a 4th gen 4runner hitch?

There is supposed to be a fork shaped bracket welded on the GX 470s receiver to relocate the plug.