L-series tow ball thread?

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L-series tow ball thread?

Post by Alex » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:06 pm

gday all,

today i thought...geez that black tow-ball looks crappy, so i went out and bought a chrome one, only to find the threaded shaft is too fat!...its 50mm and as far as i know they are all 50mm?

can i file out the hole so it will fit? or will that weaken the towbar?

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Post by SuBaRiNo » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:28 pm

File?? Good luck... isn't it atleast 10mm thick?? Im prettyr sure u can get different size balls.

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file it baby

Post by coupe » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:45 pm

My tow bar on the Vortex was the same so i put a round file in the drill and reamed it out to the right size.
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Post by Smokey » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:41 pm

My one seemed to have the same problem, the ball shaft slides in all the way except for about 3mm. I just whacked the nut on there and kept tightening it until it popped in to sit nice and tight. Was a bitch to get out again for snatching though....hehehe.
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