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[Twolanerider]

One of the brethren needs to see what the Bushtec hitch looks like installed.  It was quicker to post it again here than to find it. 


Without the receiver in the hitch:

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Receiver installed:

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Low profile:

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From below:

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Side bracketry:

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Needed a little further illustration for the project being considered. 


Hitch itself separated from receiver:

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Profile:

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Road Glide happened to be on the lift right now.  So switching bikes to show the receiver tube better.  It's got the V-Rail rear bumper thing rather than the Street Glide rear fascia so allows seeing it better anyway.  Exactly the same hitch though.  Can see the receiver tube through the V-Rail.

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Then from below.  The hole to receive the square tubing can be seen behind the harness.  Harness is strapped like that when the trailer isn't in use.

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Oooops.  Just thought of one other thing you'll need.  Will go measure the size of the square tube.  Be right back.

[SBB]

So here's the N-line hitch upside down.
YES, the insert is in upside down.

[Twolanerider]

Oooops.  Just thought of one other thing you'll need.  Will go measure the size of the square tube.  Be right back.

1" square tube.

[SBB]

So here's the insert by itself.
Upside down of course.

[Twolanerider]

So here's the N-line hitch upside down.
YES, the insert is in upside down.

So where Bushtec is using the pin and clip N-line is using a through bolt.  Both are using a stop bolt with a pal nut to take any rocking out of it.

The N-Line big one piece bracket looks tremendously more robust than does the Bushtec.  The Bushtec is a heavier trailer though so it's mass without an absolute requirement that it be there.

From what we're seeing here don't see any reason the more hidden Bushtec hitch would be a no-go.  Use the mating piece of the N-Line hitch.  Get a good local welder to cut off the old square tube and fab-up new square tube to mate and mount. Voila.  Good to go.  That's precisely what the N-Line guy all but directly suggested doing himself this morning.

[Twolanerider]

So here's the insert by itself.
Upside down of course.

The welder might not want to take the original square tube off right at the U shaped piece.  He might build a larger ID angle bracket to make the first turn.  Then cut the shown tube off at a distance to mate to the angle he'd created and sleeve both it and the new tube that would go on to the receiver.  Would make for a very strong connection.