Hitch Extenders

That extension is strong enough but not sure with the stock hitch.
I used the Reese Titan receiver and 48” ext when I had my 03 Dodge and Lance 1191. I towed a 20’ enclosed trailer with dirt bikes and quads with no problems.
For around $400, Curt makes a heavy duty 2 1/2” receiver that mounts under your stock hitch.
I have the Blue Ox base plate on my Jeep. Very straight forward install and only takes a couple of hours. I use the Blue Ox Aladdin aluminum extendable tow bar.
I don’t use a braking system and with your rig it’s probably not necessary but is required in some states.

I thought the Mammoth was 12’ long. Did you measure the overhang?
I needed the 48” with my 11’6” Lance.

FireGuard wrote:
I thought the Mammoth was 12’ long. Did you measure the overhang?
I needed the 48” with my 11’6” Lance.

Camper is off so I could be a little off. Measuring from under the camper where I can see the line the bed mat left to the outside edge of the camper exterior and subtracting roughly 10" for the distance from the mat to the reciever was about 36". The bar can handle up to 48" so I should be good on that.

FireGuard wrote:
That extension is strong enough but not sure with the stock hitch.
I used the Reese Titan receiver and 48” ext when I had my 03 Dodge and Lance 1191. I towed a 20’ enclosed trailer with dirt bikes and quads with no problems.
For around $400, Curt makes a heavy duty 2 1/2” receiver that mounts under your stock hitch.
I have the Blue Ox base plate on my Jeep. Very straight forward install and only takes a couple of hours. I use the Blue Ox Aladdin aluminum extendable tow bar.
I don’t use a braking system and with your rig it’s probably not necessary but is required in some states.

The stock receiver is 2-1/2. I'll have to look up the rating but I believe the stock receiver is rated 25k? I'll need to look into this. Thanks!

I can only respond to the braking system. I bought the Ready Brute with surge. I bought a new Ready Brute tow bar from a member here, and then purchased the base plate and separate surge extension. I didn't want wiring going through the jeep. I have 2 cables mounted to the brake pedal through the firewall. One is emergency break aware and the other is surge cable. Brake, turn and tail lights are the magnetic type ( battery fed led ) secured to cargo basket over the spare, fed my transmitter plugged into the 7-way plug.
Great father's day present from my kids that performed perfectly last month.
Spider senses flashed seeing a single tube extension. Looking at my Torklift, 2 tubes fastened together with 3/8" chain turnbuckles.

mike/kellie wrote:
I can only respond to the braking system. I bought the Ready Brute with surge. I bought a new Ready Brute tow bar from a member here, and then purchased the base plate and separate surge extension. I didn't want wiring going through the jeep. I have 2 cables mounted to the brake pedal through the firewall. One is emergency break aware and the other is surge cable. Brake, turn and tail lights are the magnetic type ( battery fed led ) secured to cargo basket over the spare, fed my transmitter plugged into the 7-way plug.
Great father's day present from my kids that performed perfectly last month.
Spider senses flashed seeing a single tube extension. Looking at my Torklift, 2 tubes fastened together with 3/8" chain turnbuckles.

Thanks, I have been looking at signals. I am leaning towards add-a-bulb type.

Since you are flat towing, I think you’d be fine with the hitch and extender. There would only be the weight of the tow bar on the extension. You should measure the exact length needed including the ball mount.

I don’t have experience with the rest.

Greg, that extension looks pretty stout and with adding the diagonal chains you should be ok, no real tongue weight. Check out Towmate wireless lights for your Wrangler and the RVibrake looks good.

This is what I used on my 13 Wrangler
Blue Ox BX1126 Base Plate. $379.99
Blue Ox BX8869 Bulb and socket tail light wiring kit. $52.52
Bought from Amazon.
The wire kit works great. You drill 1” holes inside of the taillight assembly to mount a bulb and you use 4 wires from the bulbs under the Jeep to a plug that mounts on the base plate. Pretty straight forward install on both.
With all the electronics on new vehicles I wouldn’t tap into the vehicles electrical system.

I use a setup similar to your picture, Curt 2 1/2 extension. I have towed my 3k boat with a couple hundred lbs of tongue weight, and also my Jeep cj7 about 3k and no tongue weight. I thought of hooking diagonally like you mentioned, but have had no problems without them. Again, these were only around 3k lbs, not as much as what you want to pull.
Let us know what works for you.
Dave