Front mount bike rack using tow hooks?
I’m in my shop trying to work out the simplest way to carry our bikes on the road with our 5th wheel.
Our rig doesn’t have a rear receiver, so installing one or beefing up the rear “bumper” are the options back there.
Short bed, and I can’t see any chance of carrying them in the back of the truck.
Looking into a front mounted receiver for a rack on the front. My concern is a low mount might cause ground clearance issues, and a high mount requires cutting the air dam.
While looking at the truck with tape measure in hand, it seems like the tow hooks are the perfect place to mount a rack. I could modify two 2” receivers to bolt on where the hooks go and then modify a a rack to mount to those. No permanent changes to the truck and no clearance issues. Seems so obvious I’m surprised google only gives vague references to such a product maybe having been available in the past.
Any thoughts?
Our rig doesn’t have a rear receiver, so installing one or beefing up the rear “bumper” are the options back there.
Short bed, and I can’t see any chance of carrying them in the back of the truck.
Looking into a front mounted receiver for a rack on the front. My concern is a low mount might cause ground clearance issues, and a high mount requires cutting the air dam.
While looking at the truck with tape measure in hand, it seems like the tow hooks are the perfect place to mount a rack. I could modify two 2” receivers to bolt on where the hooks go and then modify a a rack to mount to those. No permanent changes to the truck and no clearance issues. Seems so obvious I’m surprised google only gives vague references to such a product maybe having been available in the past.
Any thoughts?
