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Originally Posted by Chance
It's great that you were able to keep full use of your hitch receiver. I'm also curious how you found it easier to mount assembly. Do you first bolt tube to wheel and then lift tube into receiver? Some other way? Inquiring minds want to know. 
My comment about the bolt was more about it providing adequate stability to keep tire/wheel from rocking side-to-side. If you notice on most tire carriers they often use two or more bolts spaced out with wheel resting against a large flat surface that makes it easy to limit motion. In your case the wheel is bolted to a surface less than 2-inches wide, so bolt doesn't have as much leverage to restrict rocking without much higher stresses. Unfortunately in a case like this it's nearly impossible to estimate dynamic loads so they lead to some concern. |
I installed the square tube by resting the rear edge of the tire on the receiver hitch and lifting the front of the tire as I inserted the square tube. then I let the tire rest on the tube as I aligned the bolt hole.
The tire rests pretty close to the bottom of the coach ~1/2"-3/4" so the maximum excursion from horizontal is only a couple of degrees. Even given the max acceleration due to the over hang of the coach from the rear axle is still well within the bolts capability.
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