BSH
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- Sauk County, WI
I went to a Jeep-only salvage yard (not a u-pull, and not cheap, but good), and asked for a hitch for a Cherokee. He sold me a nice one, practically new, for $75 with bolt retainers for the frame rail (not the nutsert strips, but usable).
I got the thing under my '96 XJ, and the darned holes don't line up! Am I an idiot? I thought the bolt pattern was the same throughout the entire XJ production - they didn't change, did they? The guy is certain he took it off an XJ, but for one thing it doesn't fit very well over the metal lip of the gas tank, and only the last (rear) pair of bolt holes line up! And I was supposed to pick up a trailer today!
It's possible that he's right, and I'm an idiot who can't line up the right holes. Can anyone post pictures of the frame rail where the bolts are supposed to go? Also, what are the measurements between the bolt holes? The last hole is right in front of the rear cross-panel, right?
I got the thing under my '96 XJ, and the darned holes don't line up! Am I an idiot? I thought the bolt pattern was the same throughout the entire XJ production - they didn't change, did they? The guy is certain he took it off an XJ, but for one thing it doesn't fit very well over the metal lip of the gas tank, and only the last (rear) pair of bolt holes line up! And I was supposed to pick up a trailer today!
It's possible that he's right, and I'm an idiot who can't line up the right holes. Can anyone post pictures of the frame rail where the bolts are supposed to go? Also, what are the measurements between the bolt holes? The last hole is right in front of the rear cross-panel, right?
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