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<\/a>Exhaust Mounting around New Hitch<\/center><\/p>\nEarlier this week I received the new hitch for my car<\/a>. Despite being sick I spent a couple of hours today getting it installed. The directions claimed 30 minutes for an installation, but I imagine that’s for an experienced hitch installer with a lift. I just had a ~45\u00b0F garage, a tarp to lay on, and a fluorescent light to set on the ground beneath the car.<\/p>\n It took a bit of effort to get installed, but it was overall simpler than the Honda Music Link. There was some manipulating of the exhaust to be done (namely, lowering it and fitting the hitch over it), and some odd position lifting of an awkward 38 pound steel beam, but I’m happy with it. I’m really glad I was able to talk to There are a bunch more photos of the installation here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, or just click the image up top. The rack itself, a Thule 917 (1 1\/4″ T2)<\/a> is scheduled for delivery on Thursday<\/a>. That should be a lot easier to get together, as it shouldn’t require any laying on the ground \/ wrenching on the car. Photos of that will be up once it’s here.<\/p>\n Also, I need to clean my camera’s sensor. And take another shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exhaust Mounting around New Hitch Earlier this week I received the new hitch for my car. Despite being sick I spent a couple of hours today getting it installed. The directions claimed 30 minutes for an installation, but I imagine that’s for an experienced hitch installer with a lift. I just had a ~45\u00b0F garage,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24713,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/24713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![new hitch for my car<\/a>. Despite being sick I spent a couple of hours today getting it installed. The directions claimed 30 minutes for an installation, but I imagine that’s for an experienced hitch installer with a lift. I just had a ~45\u00b0F garage, a tarp to lay on, and a fluorescent light to set on the ground beneath the car.<\/p>\nIt took a bit of effort to get installed, but it was overall simpler than the Honda Music Link. There was some manipulating of the exhaust to be done (namely, lowering it and fitting the hitch over it), and some odd position lifting of an awkward 38 pound steel beam, but I’m happy with it. I’m really glad I was able to talk to about it, who installed a practically identical hitch on his 2007 Civic<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a bunch more photos of the installation here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, or just click the image up top. The rack itself, a Thule 917 (1 1\/4″ T2)<\/a> is scheduled for delivery on Thursday<\/a>. That should be a lot easier to get together, as it shouldn’t require any laying on the ground \/ wrenching on the car. Photos of that will be up once it’s here.<\/p>\nAlso, I need to clean my camera’s sensor. And take another shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exhaust Mounting around New Hitch Earlier this week I received the new hitch for my car. Despite being sick I spent a couple of hours today getting it installed. The directions claimed 30 minutes for an installation, but I imagine that’s for an experienced hitch installer with a lift. I just had a ~45\u00b0F garage,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24713,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/24713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0640-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}