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Standard base plate brackets attach to your vehicle's frame to provide fixed attachment points for your tow bar.
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Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (169 Customer Reviews)
Standard base plate brackets attach to your vehicle's frame to provide fixed attachment points for your tow bar.Remove bumper and front wheels. Bracket B is the only hole to be drilled for installing. Bracket C bolts thru existing steering box bolt hole. Bracket E bolts from main bar A to existing rigging eye in your samurai to anchor and secure the base plate. (See pictures) hope this helps. Only negative for me is the base plate sticks out in front instead of below bumper. All parts needed for installation where in the box.
made strong took about 3 hours my tow hooks on my suzuki samural were bent out so that slow me down a bit i used 5 pound sledge out bang them straight then bolts went in i turn the front wheels to the right so to drill the hole in the frame used small bit then went for larger one work out well follow direction they did work but lacking illustration .works good
Great base plate. 1988 Samurai. It took some work to make it fit, but its solid, maybe overkill. Your not going to worry about it while towing your Samurai cross country. As always you can count on etrailer for fast shipping.
etrailer is super,what else can I say.
The Roadmaster base plate, for my Samuari ,fit perfect and was super easy to install.
I will be ordering a towbar, from etrailer, soon as I get time.
Very happy with base plate for my Suzuki Samurai. Towed from WV to Florida and back last winter no issues.
Just unpacked box today 8/14. Am assembling components now. Hope it is a good fit. The kit and parts are well finished and the shipment was well packaged and arrived ahead of schedule.
Thanks for the great customer service on the order.
Tow bar has been great, easy to maintain and use. No issues. Very quality unit, great instructions, easy install.
very helpful people and product was shipped fast
great service is getting hard to find I am very happy with
service product knowledge and product.
Dave P.
10/5/2016
have towed lots of miles
Received product fast. Box had the wrong instructions.
Does not fit exactly as purported for my 1988.5 Samurai but works.
The bracket fit well and was pretty easy to install. Looks and feels very sturdy.
Jim M.
9/26/2016
They have been working like a charm. Thank you.Jim
greaat product, lousy instructions.
Works great
Quality item. Prompt service and shipment.
Perfect fit for my 2005 Jeep Wrangler TJ using a Roadmaster Stowmaster 5000.
I am super happy with this and the base plates for it. I am impressed that these parts were bought separately and fit like a glove together!
This thing is a really frustrating. For $xxx it should be a lot better even from the beginning where people understand the install situation. It isn't really a bolt on as step one is cut and grind off the factory tow hook. This isn't mentioned by RM. The instructions are a joke - they mix up front and back all the while telling you to read the instructions closely. And the support is really frustrating. If you have 3 questions with photos, etc, they answer only one question per email. You should stop selling this unit until you install it with a video on some vans of maybe different years and maybe RM will listen to you and update their instructions and as far as I can tell so far the hardware needs at least some different hardware. Until then sell the RM Westy front bumper with Clevises already on it for about the same money.
Very easy to install and well built product. Instructions made the job go smoothly. With the tight tolerance on the backing plate bolt spacing, I had to do a small amount of filing on the 1989 Jeep Cherokee frame holes so that the plates would slide easily through. Other than that, no real problems. As mentioned in the instructions, I had to cut small sections out of the top and bottom of the bumper for the new brackets but the install looks really clean.
installed the tow brackets per the instructions - the pictures in the instructions were small and weren't real helpful so I contacted Customer Service which sent me detailed photos of an installation on a similar vehicle - helped a lot! Thanks! Within a week we were off on a cross country trip down to Mexico, put on 6000 miles and then retorqed the bracket bolts. This is a good product, easy to use, and we've used it pretty hard - no problems so far!
Did have to cut off factory tow hook with a hack saw. Straight forward install otherwise and good quality.
The product fits perfectly. Installation is somewhat easy except drilling the opening on the frame. The arms are holding down very strong, good quality.
I finally have my parts today,I waited 5 Days but I Guess that's How It Is.The Set up was Not Hard at all,I had all the parts to Install it ,And Yes I will buy Again if I Need something else!
High Quality Product. Install instructions don't go into enough detail in step by step. A little vague for the Non-Expert installer. Nut Plates provided for rear mounting bolts are wider than the holes available in sub-frame for install. Had to mill sides of pads to get them into the frame for install. No instructions or fish wires to get them into place. Had to manufacture own fish wire system to get the plates in place for install. Once mods were completed and hardware designed and built, installation was pretty much straight forward. I would not consider this kit for a novice installer. Sorry I didn't take pictures of the "wide" nut plate situation and my redesign (width reduction)
The product was received as expected. The brackets aligned with all points and bolted up first time. The hardware was great, except two lock washer short (but not a problem as I had extras in my parts bins) and double the number of flat washers (extras for the next project). But is was great to have all optional bolts, washers and nuts supplied. Instructions were easy to follow and complete with one excepting. I need a bracket part from the old brackets and that was not included in the instructions, but was clear as I aligned everything in the pre assembly.
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Rick N.
8/2/2015
Its good works well