Okay well as we all know, when you do a body lift there are a few new parts that show and most of us like our trucks to look a little cleaner than that. Wheel liners fix the gap issue, and our rams dont show too much frame so we are lucky on that part. Last issue is the hitch. With body lifts getting a little more popular, me and Ricer are trying to make a cover plate for the hitch.

It looks like the top of my hitch is exactly 4" below the bumper, and the widest part is 12" long. there is a good spot to mount the thing exactly in the center and about 1/2" down. So if anyone has an idea on how to do this thing and what it should look like, let me know!

 

put a shirt on

 

What BL did you do. My PA BL came with a cover the covers all of that and also keeps you from screwing a ball into the bumper and using it for towing

 

If'n it were me, I'd get me a sheet of 3/16" flat steel and cut it (or even 1/8" if you had to hand cut it) in the shape you have outlined in this pic:

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...tchoutline.jpg

Then I'd weld me a piece of angle iron onto the back straight across with three holes cut out. One to slip over that black center piece and two that are the diameter of the bolts holding the hitch on and use those bolts to hold it.

Would be an easy fab, you might have $20 in it if you had to buy the metal. Check your local scrap yard. Me and a buddy did a little project a month or so ago and bought angle iron from a local scrap yard for $5 per 10' piece.

Hit it with a couple coats of weatherproof primer and paint it black and call it a day.

You could even get fancy and use diamond plate and aluminum angle if you have the means to weld or braze aluminum...

 

Zone. I know what piece you are talking about. Its plastic huh? I wanted to do something that was tough enough to get hit if the trailer rolled into it and you could cut a hole for the camera.

And hammer, the idea was to use diamond plate. Remember that rolled diamond plate that Ricer did for an intake but we kinda advised to use plastic due to heat absorption? Well he was gonna help me with it. thats a great idea about the angle iron

 

Where is it going to absorb heat from? Hell, everything else there is steel. I mean it's only a cover.

That's in a spot i'd be leary to use plastic, first time it get whacked, it'd be cracked...

I got a pic of a piece of diamond plate I cut for a boy who did a body lift to fill the gap between the bumper and the tail gate a couple of years ago. If I can find it still on my phone, I'll post it up...


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Hammer, he was referring to a CAI that he was making out of diamond plate when referring to the heat absorption. haha

 

Yeah LOL... I re-read his post when I went back in and edited the pic in mine and it hit me what he was saying... duh...

 

What if I cut a piece of metal 12 1/2" wide by 5 1/2" tall. Bend a 90 on the top 1 1/2". Measure down 2 1/2" on each side then cut an angle from the 2 1/2" marks to marks on the bottom edge that are marked at 4 3/4" from each edge, leaving 3" in the middle which is the outside measurement on most 2" receivers. Sounds complicated and I typed it but I will try to cut one here at home, out of scrap I have laying around, and get a picture of it up so you can see what I am talking about. The reason for the top 1 1/2" bent in a 90 at the top would be so you could run self-tapping screws through the metal and right into the lip on your bumper.

 

Ricer, that sounds like a plan. the self tapping screw idea would work also, that way if something hit it, it would bend at the 90 instead of break or dent, and could just be bent back out.

Thanks for all of your help! Thats why I spend most of my time on THIS forum haha.