I took my trailer hitch off during the restoration and now cannot find the bolts anywhere.
Where can I buy these infernal M12x1.25x60 grade 10.9 bolts?
Where can I buy these infernal M12x1.25x60 grade 10.9 bolts?
Trailer Hitch Frame Bolts?
- Thread starter GerhardUngerer
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Fastenal, Metric and Mutlistandard, Belmetric, or you could come by the house. Fastenal has two locations on Westinghouse Road; the others don't sell to the public. 
I have some in a box. I spent the weekend cleaning and rearranging the shop; I may actually be able to find them.
By the way, the weldnuts in the frame face (where Toyota intended the trailer hitch to be mounted) are M14 (or 7/16-20, which is the same thread, oddly). I got my frame mount bolts from the rear seatbelt anchor bolts from a salvage 80 some years past, before I recognized what they were. All seatbelt anchor bolts in the US are 7/16-20, Grade 8, per SAE and USDOT.
I don't trust those in-frame weldnuts for the DrawTite hitches the dealers installed. I've broken too many of them removing those hitches. The rear face is the best option, IMHO. It doesn't reduce ground clearance, either.
I have some in a box. I spent the weekend cleaning and rearranging the shop; I may actually be able to find them.
By the way, the weldnuts in the frame face (where Toyota intended the trailer hitch to be mounted) are M14 (or 7/16-20, which is the same thread, oddly). I got my frame mount bolts from the rear seatbelt anchor bolts from a salvage 80 some years past, before I recognized what they were. All seatbelt anchor bolts in the US are 7/16-20, Grade 8, per SAE and USDOT.
I don't trust those in-frame weldnuts for the DrawTite hitches the dealers installed. I've broken too many of them removing those hitches. The rear face is the best option, IMHO. It doesn't reduce ground clearance, either.
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If I can't find them:
this is the 616 Westinghouse Road branch.
this is the 616 Westinghouse Road branch.
I ordered mine from McMaster-Carr.
McMaster-Carr is the solution for all things that attach things to other things.
I wish all websites were designed as intuitively as McMaster-Carr.
They have a website? I still use that yellow phone book thing they published.
Toyota bolts with captured washer, tapered tip, and 17mm socket compatibility make things easier on toolkits and simplify the truck:
90119-12361
90119-12361
you just aged yourself old man
...and proud I've made it this far, too. Despite my best efforts to the contrary.
Belmetric, you can get them with the 17mm head and with a shoulder washer 
Good to know 4Runners are good for something
Yep. Memory Isn't what it used to be
