Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Pulling a trailer with 240D

Jeff,

I looked at that a long time ago and there is a hitch for the 123s that's reasonably safe unless you want to tow a cattle car. Will have to look in my archives to find you info, later next week.

Darryl Urcheck (yes the guy from the Cit lists lol who also owns a 240d)

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:19:30 -0600, Jeff Fennema wrote
> > hey I just called u-haul about installing a hitch on my 240D. They
> > said they did not have one for the 240D. Has anyone installed a
> > u-haul hitch on there 240D, I thought someone said they had?
> >
> I would very much doubt that anyone had a hitch for a car that was produced
> last over 23 years ago, was somewhat limited in appeal due to excessively
> high purchase price (my coupé, $37,000 in '84: an Eldorado - $18,000), and
> the overwhelming trend towards towing with trucks.
> Further, the only hitch I have ever seen on any W123 not my own, was an
> extremely dangerous affair bolted through the trunk floor (too thin by far)
> and through the rear bumper (attached to the car by a rubber mount, AND
> aluminum to boot).
> However, that said, Valley Hitch, FWIW, list a hitch for W123, but there is
> no picture available, and no one I've talked to knows what this thing looks
> like.
>
> For those who can, or know someone who fabricates, there is enough info in
> my Photo entry on hitches to allow you to fabricate a safe, sturdy hitch for
> any W123. Raw material is a hitch for a Jeep Cherokee of late-eighties
> vintage (the really square ones). These are common in junkyards (the hitch,
> AND the Jeep). Bonus: the fabrication was really quite simple - cut the arms
> off the centre bar, drill to fit behind the bumper mounts, then reweld back
> onto the bar in a different location than was before. I could probably do
> another in a couple hours, it's that easy.
>
> Jeff
>
>


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