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Today on our 2011 GMC Sierra we're going to take a look at and also show you how to install the Curt Custom Fit Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver with the 2" by 2" opening. Part number is 31322. Here's a good look at our hitch once we get it installed, as you can see you're not losing really anything here. Our ground clearance is going to remain just about the same, the hitch is going to remain just about completely hidden up here behind our bumper. Great thing about the install process, it uses all the factory mounting locations so we don't have to drill any holes, you don't have to make any modifications to our truck. It's going to leave us with our 2" by 2" receiver tube opening. These are going to work out really, really well for front mounted winches, for your snow plows, some people will put a cargo carrier on the front, a bike rack on the front, if they need to maximize their carrying capacity, so it's going to be pretty versatile.
It's a 2" by 2" receiver tube opening, that's going to work with all your class III accessories, even ball mounts you can put them in here, secure them with a pin and clip, and then you could kind of maneuver trailers around the yard or something like that. To secure all of our items in place, the hitch does use a 5/8 diameter pin hole. This pin hole, we'll use the class III rated accessories for, but you can see there's plenty of room here whether you want to use a locking type of device, locking hitch pin clip, or just a standard pin and clip, we should have no problems getting that secured. We've got three weight ratings on our hitch, the first is going to be the tongue weight rating and that's the maximum downward force that we can put here at the receiver tube opening, that's going to be 500-lbs. The gross trailer weight rating which is the total weight of our trailer and anything that we we're to load up on it is 5,000-lbs. The hitch is going to offer a straight line pull capacity of 9,000-lbs. That would mean if you had a winch connected here, and you anchored that off, and you we're pulling your truck, you wouldn't want to exceed that 9,000-lb mark which is going to be plenty enough to get our truck out of most situations.
If we need to, we can always double back to our tow hook here to increase that capacity. A couple measurements that will be helpful in selecting the right product for your hitch will be from the ground to the inside top edge of the receiver tube opening we've got about 11-1/2". Then from the center of our hitch pin hole to the outermost edge of our bumper, it's going to be about 6". Now, to begin our installation we need to remove the four bolts that are located right here. This is our driver's side frame rail, our tow hook's right there just for reference. You can see we've got two here, these nuts you need a 21mm to remove. Just below those we're going to use an 18mm socket.
You may have to throw a wrench on the other side there just to keep that nut from spinning. Now we'll pull that bolt out. What we're going to do is place that smaller bolt that goes back there through our bracket and put two washers on it. We want our bracket to have the notch towards the front and to be stepped in towards the middle of the vehicle. I'm going to place those on, I'm going to get that very loosely started for now because I've got two more washers that need to go on the longer bolt, which is in that location. We'll put our two nuts back on there.
We're going to get these down so our plate still has some wiggle room there, and then we'll put the nut on the backside of that larger bolt also. We do want it to be able to move around a little bit so when we get our center section put in we'll be able to do that. Then we just need to repeat the same process on the other side here. One thing to keep in mind on the passenger side is that we're not going to have that lower bolt location closer to the rear of the vehicle, so we've just got three. Now we'll want to slide our washers on our lower bolt there, and then we can put our bracket right up in position and re-secure it with the nuts. Now we want to take our short carriage bolts, those are going to go from the inside toward the outside. We're going to place them right up in those brackets that we installed. Got some little flange nuts there that thread on just to kind of help hold its position. Once we have two of those installed loosely on each side, we can get our other six started. To get our rear bolt in position, what we'll do is take our bolt leader, we're going to go right up through that bracket, and I'm going to add on two flat washers, and then also our oval hole

[@Ober447]

Does the Fish Wire come with the kit

[@etrailer]

Yes the fish wire will be included in the kit.
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[@Ober447]

@@etrailer perfect. Just placed the order for a 31322.

[@kevinfisch1785]

Does this receiver fit a Sierra 2500hd? Or only the 1500?

[@etrailer]

It only fits the 2007 new body-2013 1500 Silverado/Sierra. For a 2011 GMC Sierra 2500, you'd use the Curt # C31023. Check it out using this link:
www.etrailer.com/Front-Receiver-Hitch/Chevrolet/Silverado/2011/C31023.html