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Today on this 2001 Subaru Outback we are going to be installing part number 36284 from Draw-Tite. This also applies to Hidden Hitch part number 90176. The first thing we are going to do is point out our mounting holes that we are going to be attaching our hitch to. As you can see you have two tow hooks in the rear of the vehicle. One on both sides. This is actually one of the locations we are going to be attaching our hitch to as well as the hole here which is the same on the passenger side. As you can see on the passenger side we are going to have to lower down the carbon canister tube to gain access to our mounting locations. Doing that you are going to remove two 12 millimeter nuts at the rear of the canister and one in the middle in front of the canister. As you can see we need to take out these rubber prongs and those are the other mounting locations for our hitch. 00:51
The next step we are going to do is put our hardware into position. We will be taking our bolt leader and run it up through the hole where we are going to be putting our hardware into place and out the access hole. We are going to take our three inch block and put it over the bolt leader and thread our carriage bolt into our bolt leader. Then we are going to push it up through the access hole and down out the mounting hole. We are going to do that same thing on the passenger side of the vehicle. You want to loosen your canister bracket so you can work your hitch around it. Now that we have our hardware in position we are going to raise our hitch up. It is probably best to have a second set of hands to help you hold the hitch in position while threading your conical tooth washer and nut in position. 01:49
Now we are going to attach our hitch to our tow hooks by using a 1/ 2 inch bolt that was provided in the kit along with two 2 inch spacers. The spacer locations are going to be located on both sides of the tow hook. The hole that we are going to be putting our bolt into is going to be the top hole and there is only one hole on the passenger side that we are going to be putting it into. On the passenger side we are going to be using three spacers and then we are going to put on our lock washer and nut. Now that we have all of our hardware in position tighten and torque your bolts as specified in the instructions. Now that our hitch is in position we are going to put up the bracket that holds up our carbon canister and then we are going to put our carbon canister back in position. Now we are going to take a couple of measurements for you. From the inside of the hitch pin hole out to the edge of the bumper is going to be approximately 6-1/ 2 inches. From the ground to the top of the receiver tube opening is going to be about 15-1/ 2 inches. This will conclude the installation for part number 36284 from Draw-Tite on this 2001 Subaru Outback.
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2. The steel roof truss should use the same ground pattern or mold, and adopts the block iron positioning assembly, to ensure the camber and span size are correct. The pedestal links the embedded, should be in the roof truss welding, after correction according to the size of its span position assembled to each other, to get accurate span, height and ease of installation. To facilitate the installation adjusting span size, support for embedded connection, can not with roof assembly first when producing, application of temporary bolts attached to the roof, for on site installation according to the size of the roof span and its position to connect. before hoisting, should carefully check the roof truss, corrected for deformation of parts, the guarantee span size again after lifting.
3.Strictly controlling the size of the component production, installation deviation. Hoisting, should use proper lifting process, such as cross level support length is longer, the stiffness is poorer, application round wooden reinforcement, lifting point location should be reasonable, keep as far as possible in a plane, the force center of gravity in the in-plane uniform stress, in order to prevent the bending, torsion deformation. When installation should make level support slightly connected to the roof truss arch is slightly greater than the level state, can eliminate the down warping. Large deviation such as connection position when not in place, shall not adopt any pull tool use outside force through the connection, so as not to make the roof bottom chord lateral bending or make the level of support too much on the arch or down warping, and to make the fitting to save a large internal stress. Horizontal support with a temporary bolted, good correction should be immediately after welding.
4.The bolt hole hole system should be set template, ensure correct size position. Before the installation, should bolt hole and installation surface finishing. Pay attention to eliminate small steel parts assembled deviation, to prevent accumulation. Bolts should be consistent. Steel structure components each side should have at least two mounting holes, in order to reduce steel members caused by itself down warping hole deviation, generally USES steel punch primary make fitting up and down hole.
5.Column, roof installation after correction, with temporary fixed position welding, by another group of welders should be immediately full welding are permanently fixed, and strengthen inspection, in order to prevent the individual node leakage weld length, height is not enough, when supported by external force, the connection node weld damage, and make the pillar and roof unstability.
6.Steel structure installation form space stiffness after the unit, should be timely the column bottom and top surface gap filling fine stone concrete finally fixed, make hinged column bottom comprised a solid, strong overall stability.
7.Component transport, stacking and components hoisting colligation point position of supporting points should be correct, in case of bending deformation of the components. Shall be carried out according to the scheme to determine the order of the installation, lifting should prevent collisions, installation is not, nor outside force in place, lest produce more than the limit stress component deformation.