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Today on a 2009 Pontiac Solstice we are going to install part number 11119 from Curt. First
we will go ahead and show you where the hitch will mount up onto the frame. As you can see
there is an oval hole off to the left-hand side. The hardware is going to use that existing
hole to attach the hitch to. However o n some models there is two existing holes, if the
second additional hole is not already drilled in the frame you will need to drill it out
yourself. As shown here this is the drivers side which is identical to the passenger side.
We are going to start off by marking our holes to drill. On the hitch itself you measure
the holes centers to be 3 inches even. So basically we are going to measure from this
center oval hole here and come straight back about 3 inches and mark our hole. We will
go ahead and drill it out with a1/ 4 inch pilot hole and follow up with a larger bit.
Sometimes this little tab, or punch out is in the way a little bit, what you want to
do is take a pry bar, or handle of the breaker bar and push it out of the way as needed.
Okay we will take a bolt leader and put it through the first hole that we drilled and
out through our access hole here. Put the block in first, then thread on the bolt and
pop everything in and pull it back out. This time go in the same access hole and come right
back out. Our bolt on the bolt leader, and block. And this time we will go ahead and
start with that going in first then our block and come right back down. And do the same
exact procedure on
the passenger side.