Can tow
Installed the tow hitch receiver. The tricky part was cutting a bigger hole in one side of the frame. Needed a bigger hole to get the bolts inside the frame. Mr. Sawzall made short work of that. With a little help from Karissa holding up one side of the hitch receiver, I got two bolts thumb-tightened on, aligned it straight, and went back with a ratchet. Nice.
Next, we need electrical. Can’t tow a trailer without working brake lights and turn signals. This didn’t go as smoothly: I couldn’t find the turn signals in the wire harness hanging near my left rear wheel (there it is in the picture). Found pos and neg power as well as a few other wires that illuminated steadily but nothing that flashed in time with the blinker. Course I broke one of the wires testing it. Great.. called it a night after that and went back the next day.
ETrailer’s support suggested pulling the rear lights and splicing into those lines. Perfect except I had to extend my right-turn signal’s wire to get all the way across. A little 18 gauge speaker wire (that should work, right?) and that was taken care of. Soldered my broken wire back, cleaned, covered, and sealed all the wire harnesses I took apart, and then snaked 20 feet of 10 gauge wire all the way to the front, zip tying as I went, and connected it to the battery. We now have two signals that work! I still need to test brake lights with Karissa… but that has to wait until she’s here – it’s hard to work the circuit tester in the back and hit the brakes at the same time.