Just got a used 'Corbins' 2" square reciever for my '89 240wagon.

I had to remove a rear toe strap loop that was bolted to the frame, and cut away there rear valence.

The reciver has 3 holes on each side. I found the right size class 8.8 bolts for the rear holes, but what do you do on the front larger hole? I could only find a 4" M14 8.8 bolt for it. It will not go all the way through from inside out or vise versa, because of the shoulder on the bolt.

Is that the bumper shocks inside the frame? Can I use a shorter bolt from the underside, into the shock mount? Will this hold the shock correctly?

If not, where do you get a 4.5 - 5" M14 (8.8) bolt without a long shoulder area on it?

I bought a 5 wire converter to tie into my tail lights with. Are there any problems with doing this?

Thanks,

I assume that you are talking about a towing hitch.

I'm just having one fitted to may car, its a Volvo stamped Hayman Reese (Australian I think).

It uses 3 locating bolts either side into the chassis, and one BIG bolt thorough the chassis (each side). I had pointed out to me last weekend that you can get to the big bolts throught the boot / tailgate. Lift the storage lid, and on either side you'll see a hole in the metal with a bolt through it. THis corresponds with the big holes in the chassis.

I needed to get thiese big bolts, so I borrowed a genuine one from someone, and went to the local NutsNBolts, who had to order them in.

They are:

125mm long, hex head

14 mm diameter

2 mm thread pitch.

They only come with 40mm of thread, so I went to an engineering shop to get some more put on ('cause they need it). I guess they are now threaded to about an inch from the top of the bolt.

Good luck. Let me know if you want more detail.

The 5 wire should work fine.

John

Hi John,

Thanks for the info on your installation.

I did find 14mm * 100mm grade 8 bolts at the local hardware, but found out they were too short. I will have to keep looking for 125mm with enough thread to go all the way through the threaded insert (bumber shock).

Scott

Scott -

The five-wire system works just fine if you don't mind having the bulb failure light on in error. The tail lights and brake lights go through the bulb failure system, not the turn signals.

There is a harness for Volvo that's supposed to work, look on eBay.

Good Luck,

Bob

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