Greeting and Happy holidays!

I am new here and I am hoping for a long and fruitful stay. What brought me here is a search on the internet w/ no solution to my problem. If any of you can help then that would be great. If not then I guess I will just have to bug all of you with other issues and advice until I am thrown out !

Here is my problem. My 2007 Dodge Ram Quad Cab (Big horn Edition) is to high to tow normal sized trailers. I am about to embarq on a journey south (moving from Ohio to Florida) and the uhaul I was intending on renting is way to low for my truck. The rims on my truck are the Stock 20" and the hitch on my truck is the factory bumper type mount. Under the bumber is a black bar that appears to be the support for the bumper mount.
I would call it a reese type hitch although there is no square opening to add in a drop style ball mount.

I have searched for a Bumper Style Drop hitch with no luck, and I have considered making a hitch that will work but that is a little out of my scope of understanding.

I am not wanting to modify my bumper due to this truck being a lease and not something I will own after my lease term (or I might buy it out if the market is right, I just don't know yet).

Has ANYONE run into this issue and found a viable solution. By viable I mean I dont want to pay another $200 for a hitch when I should be able to use what I have got. Don't they make something like what I am talking about?

Any help would be great!!

 

First of all, how heavy is that Uhaul gonna be? Because a ball mounted on the bumper has next to no weight rating!

Spend about $100 of so on a frame mount hitch, at least a class IV (7500 lbs), most are a direct bolt on mount. You can install it in the driveway in about 30 mins. with a helper to hold the weight while you put in the bolts. This way, if you want to, you can remove it when the lease is up...

 

Thanks for the reply.

The hitch that is currently on the truck is rated @ 5000lbs or a class III and it looks very similiar to the pic you have shown except that it doesnt have the square hole on the front... it has 3 holes at the top for the bumper mount to go right through it... hope that makes sense. It is also more of a rounded tube frame instead of the square tubed frame.. mounts on the underside on each side of the frame.

So I am not sure their is room for another hitch like what you have shown...

 

Take some pictures of what you have and you will be more likely to get the help you need.

 

Check this link. I think this is what you need.

http://www.mopar-accessories.com/en-...ubGroupId=3055

 

OK. I will take some pics as soon as the woman returns with my truck. Hopefully by the pics you will see what I am saying.

Red06ram - I looked at the link that you sent and it isn't (I dont think) what I need... maybe I am wrong.

I will take pics and then post them here and you guys be the judge.

 

Yeah, I think we're gonna need a pic. There has to be a way, whether it's add the whole hitch frame or that Mopar receiver. I mean, when you get the tow package, it's a frame mounted receiver hitch. Might be they give you everything but the receiver that the above link shows. That must bolt onto what you have, it would make sense, it'd make you have to deal with Mopar rather than just going the inexpensive route and getting a 3rd party hitch...