Reinforce bumper

I need and will be putting a hitch rack on my TT, it is a 2017 new, but I have already had the rack mounted and with me ( 205 lb ) standing on it and jumping it does flex the thin bumper tubing, so tonight I will be cutting it off and welding an 8 ft 1/4 in wall tubing bumper on with some gussets, I trust my welds more than a factory job anyway, my frame is heavy tubing that extends to the bumper so no worries there.


I would have never though about giving it a good inspection without all this talk of them beeing weak.


so thanks for that.

then I will weld a plate on and on that weld on a 2 inch reciever, our bikes will be safe on that I would think.

I will weld the original bumper under the new one for the poop tube storage.


I also checked the tires and axle raiting with the max GVW of the trailer.

trailer says 7540 max, 5170 dry, I have 3500 lb axles and the tires are 1,540 each x 4 so I will upgrade tires when I replace them.

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Thanks for all the choices. Hide a spare sounds interesting. Will look into these options.

The under body spare tire mounts may be fine and certainly are popular, until you need them and find them rusted shut.

That happened to me and I ended up cutting the cable and placing the spare in the truck bed.

On my present TV I crank down the spare and grease the cable in the spring.

I bought a 'spare tire winch' from a pickup truck and mounted it under the front of the TT with the rod that turns the winch up and down out the front so I can crank it up and down with my cordless drill... I'm pretty sure there is a after market model you can buy... no weight on the bumper..

I reinforced my bumper... I extended it 30" and mounted my generator box back there...




I spoke with the insurance company... no problem..

You do have to distribute weight forward to offset the added weight on the rear...

ArticFox 676 wrote:
Thank you for the link. That is just what I needed.

Sorry to start a problem. This is for our trailer bumper. Want to put a second spare on the bumper. Just using caution.

How about a Hide-a-Spare?

Thank you for the link. That is just what I needed.

Sorry to start a problem. This is for our trailer bumper. Want to put a second spare on the bumper. Just using caution.

I honestly dont think anyone one will care if you reinforce your bumper. I did it ages ago because my bike rack tried to rip it off.

For what purpose do you need to reenforce the bumper? Manufacturer could claim all kinds of things in a collision injuring you or a passenger or bumper failure injuring others. The vehicles we drive are not Model Ts. You may be messin' where you shouldn't be a messin'.

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