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I needed a hitch for my 300SD so I used a curt 11805
It can be done. I was not happy with a hitch that was mounted to my impact bumper. I talked to several hitch sales people and they agreed with me that they would not like to pull a load with part of it on a impact bumper. There are several hitches that mount on the bumper and the spare tire well that do the job as advertised but I wanted a chassis mounted hitch. I used the Curt 11805 hitch and modified it to fit my 126 chassis 300SD. It took some time but I think that it turned out well and I will be towing my motorcycle to the mountains in the coming weeks with it.
The Curt hitch is one inch too narrow, mounting holes do not match and it is too close to the body to clear. With that known I filled the holes, cut the bar and added .5 to each side. The trick is to take the right and left bumper hanger and swap sides so the cross bar will clear the spare tire well. The only parts that I needed were the two pieces of tubing to fill in the .5 on each side. The hitch comes with all the material needed other than those two pieces. Re drill the hangers, weld it together and bend the forward supports another 9 degrees on each bend and you are done.
It was a lot of work but I am happy with it but would not recommend anyone doing it this way unless they are good at fabricating things up.
Good luck
Robert
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