Surface mount hitch receiver on front bumper to carry bikes?

[rreegg]

This is definitely not a bolt on application. I'm having to drill 4x 1/2" holes in the frame. I also had to drill an extra 1/2" hole in the hitch bracket, due to having to work around the power steering gear's inner frame reinforcement section.

My buddy had an ‘89 dually with a 460, wasn’ta ford. He put a front receiver on it like this and said “the holes just matched up to what was already there” and I was in disbelief. Honestly I’m still surprised he didn’t need to drill. Guess Some people are lucky, he’s very smart but not super mechanical. He also filled the tanks with diesel right after buying because he didn’t know the truck was gas lol.

 

[Cubey]

My buddy had an ‘89 dually with a 460, wasn’ta ford. He put a front receiver on it like this and said “the holes just matched up to what was already there” and I was in disbelief. Honestly I’m still surprised he didn’t need to drill. Guess Some people are lucky, he’s very smart but not super mechanical. He also filled the tanks with diesel right after buying because he didn’t know the truck was gas lol.

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I am always worried I might be absent minded and pump gas by mistake, but knock on wood, that hasn't happened yet. I did accidentally pump 2-3 gallons of red dyed diesel in Kansas one time. That was the first time I ever ran across such a pump, so I wasn't even looking. I think I just saw "diesel". I stopped pumping immediately after I looked up at the signage saying exactly what kind. I had to pull forward to a green pump to finish filling.

 

[tradergem]

I accidentally pumped a couple of gallons of gas into my truck at a BP gas station one time because I didn't notice that all of the pump handles were green not just the diesel. When I reallized what I had done I finished filling up with diesel and drove it that way. I went in and told the clerk about it she said that it happened all the time at the station with people pumping the wrong fuel in there cars and trucks.
I asked why they didn't change the color of the pump handles and she said corporate would not let them.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

I did accidentally pump 2-3 gallons of red dyed diesel in Kansas one time. That was the first time I ever ran across such a pump, so I wasn't even looking. I think I just saw "diesel". I stopped pumping immediately after I looked up at the signage saying exactly what kind. I had to pull forward to a green pump to finish filling.

There's one pump in Hill City, if you remember that town, that I quit going to. There's a pump that pumps out non taxable diesel. It's easy for me to use that one how I pull in there. I always have to fight with the pumps to get them to take my card and then, after I'm already extremely frustrated, it takes my card and gives me a message that I'm not authorized to use that pump so I get fed up and go up the road to the other station where diesel is $.15 or so higher per gallon because I absolutely refuse to turn around at and use the other pump by this time. It's just much less of a headache to pay for the higher priced fuel in the first place.

I asked why they didn't change the color of the pump handles and she said corporate would not let them.

That does make sense. Since the company is "British Petroleum" and diesel pump handles aren't green in the eastern hemisphere from, what I've seen, I can understand this. The diesel pumps are probably yellow. It's been decades since I've stopped at a BP station and I wasn't impressed enough to go back to one.