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Nice hitch!! I picked my deuce up about 6 months ago and have actually seen yours several times and looked at a lot of you build picks. Its almost like being star struck with you chiming in on the thread since Ive looked at your trucks build so much Lol... Did you get you engine conversion...

Yep I went with 5/8ths grade 8 flange bolts. The first set of bolts (closest to the rear of the truck) are 1.50 inches long and the rear two sets are 1.25 inches long. Reason being the first set I had to run through two channel flanges.

The truck frame really is not to hard to drill, what I done was got my receiver frame built and clamped it in place with C-clamps. I then took a sharpie and marked through the hole in the receiver frame where I wanted to drill, then I took a center punch and punched the center of my marks. I...

Yes it is a receiver frame. It's good to know you have pulled 6500k up steep grades makes me feel a little better about the load im fixing to start pulling.

Well since I built it and only paid scrap price it was only 14.71 lol...I paid more for the grade 8 bolts and nuts.

I built the hitch at work and designed it to be fully bolt on. I drilled the frame in 6 places (3 on each side) and used 5/8 - 11 grade 8 flange bolts. I did an FEA at work with solidworks software and it will handle anything the deuce will ever be able to pull and then some.

Just wanted to post the new hitch install on the deuce. I built the hitch to handle anything the deuce can pull but im really hoping the deuce won't struggle to much pulling 5000k pounds. Im sure it will slow down on the road but I hope it won't slow to a crawl on the interstate. I guess ill...