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Today on this 2014 Honda CRV, we're going to install part number C11555 from Kurt 00:00:08. This is a class one, inch and a quarter receiver hitch. This is what the hitch looks like when it's installed on the CRV. Next we'll give you some measurements to help you out in selecting some accessories, such as a bicycle rack or cargo carrier. From the center of the hitch pin hole to the outside edge of the bumper comes out to about six inches. From the top receiver opening down to the ground, turns out to be about 12 inches. Now we'll go ahead and show you how the hitch is installed. To install our hitch, we need to go ahead and get our car ready.
To do that, we need to take down this panel. Now, there's a variety of fasteners that we have to remove. There'll be some plastic rivets like this, there'll be a bolt back up in here, and then there'll be a screw back here as well, behind the fender well on the driver side. We'll start with the plastic rivets first or fasteners. Take a flat screwdriver and pop the centers out and go ahead and pull them out. Sometimes when the car gets dirty, you have to pry on the backside to make them come out.
On these small bolts here, we use a 10 millimeter socket. Now it might be easier to go ahead and pull the panel down a little bit and look underneath to find this screw here, so we need a Phillips screwdriver for that and the shorter, the better. Now, there's also a second screw and you can see where it runs through right here. Now you can go ahead and take off our panel. With both those screws removed, we can go ahead and take the panel out. Next we need to go ahead and move our exhaust out of the way.
We'll go ahead and spray the rubber hanger with some lubricant, then push, pull or pry them off as needed to disconnect them from the rubber hangers. We use a pry bar to work them loose. Once you have them loose, you can slowly lower the exhaust. Now we can go ahead and start to install the components for the hitch. We need to put hardware inside the frame. To do that, we need to put this block inside.
Now, the hole's too small to install it, so there's a couple of ways to getting around that. You could drill a hole right next to it, maybe a quarter inch or so and that will give you enough wiggle room to go ahead and put the block into place. You could also use a cold chisel and make a few wacks at it that way and put a dent in there as well to give you the room. Doesn't require much room at all. Lastly, if you got a couple of pry bars with the angled ends, you can put them beside each other like that and squeeze the two together and that'll expand the hole a little bit too, make it like an oval shape and you can install your hardware that way as well. This is the hardware that we're going to install in the hole that we just enlarged. This is a bolt leader that comes with the kit as well, we'll thread it through the block and then thread this on to the bolt. We'll go ahead and push this whole assembly through the hole, then back through the same hole. This is also referred to as a reverse pull. Push all the way in and then pull it right back out. You can either leave the bolt leader on or take it off. If you leave it on, it will help you pull the bolt through the hitch when you put it up there. All right. We're done for driver side. Let's go ahead and repeat the same process on our passenger side. At this point, we can go ahead and lift our hitch up and put it into place. I'm going to take the passenger side and put it on the exhaust, then raise up the driver side up to the bolt. We'll go ahead and push it up around the bolt and we'll go ahead and install the flange nut. Go to the passenger side and install the hardware there. Definitely want to leave this loose for now, then we'll go ahead and install hardware that goes at the tie down loop here. This is where we have the long half inch carriage bolt and a short block with a bolt that fits through it, then two more additional short blocks that go in this side. This will go through the tow loop like this, we'll go ahead and push the hitch up in position and run the bolt through. We'll go ahead and adjust it, until we make the most contact with tie down loop, we'll keep the blocks in the horizontal position and we'll go ahead and tighten down the bolt. We'll use a three quarter inch socket for this piece of hardware here. When we tighten this down, at first by hand, we'll go ahead and push up on the hitch. That will make sure that we have contact on the blocks on the front and rear of the tow hook. Once we're satisfied with it, we'll go ahead and tighten down for good by hand, then we'll do the same thing to the
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