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Old 07-01-2025, 12:35 PM   #1
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Default Re: Radius Rod front ball kit

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I installed a trailer hitch on a modern, in the kit was a tool for fishing bolts through inaccessible holes in the SUV frame. The tool was a wire that had a wound on one end that you thread the bolt into, pull the bolt through the enclosed frame, the bolt followed into the hole ! Very slick way to install hardware.
This works on the frame mount radiator spring mounted bolts too.
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Old 07-04-2025, 09:42 AM   #2
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please, pardon my french but how do you get the effing rubber ball on the metal ball? two people, with and without grease, using spoons as levers… no luck…
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Old 07-05-2025, 06:55 AM   #3
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how do you rubber ball on the metal ball?
I 've always managed it with a good smear of Vaseline.
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