Trailer Hitch Frame Bolts?

[GerhardUngerer]

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?

 

[Malleus]

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.

 

[Malleus]

If I can't find them:

this is the 616 Westinghouse Road branch.

 

[Dissent]

I ordered mine from McMaster-Carr.

 

[Railwelder93]

McMaster-Carr is the solution for all things that attach things to other things.

 

[landcrshr]

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.