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Hello everyone,


i am totally new at this forum and also not much experienced with Jeeps and I am not even native English (sorry). I couldn't find relevant thread, sorry if i missed.


My wife and I have a 2012, 2 doors JK. I bought a motorcycle hitch towing mechanism that lifts the front wheel of the motorbike and let it run on it's own rear wheel. We drove down from Cleveland to Atlanta with one break and apparently it worked out fine.


I am still a little concerned because the front of the Jeep was pretty elevated.


The motorbike (Honda CB350) only weight about 350 lb, and only about half of it is held by the Jeep, right? I removed the rear seat (minus 70-80 lb?), packed the car with stuff for two person, let's say max about 200 lb, added a hitch receiver with a length extension because of the spare tire (maybe 15 lb together) and the towing mechanism maybe about 30 lb. All this because the length is far back behind and the motorcycle is pushing down the car also far back, behind all, not really balanced, right? In addition we have two bicycles on a spare tyre rack that ads maybe about 80 lb all together.


I don't know that is the maximum load on what point behind the car. All we added is maybe about 600-700 lb, but behind the car, not inside. This could easily do more than 1000 lb like that, right? Any exact specification for maximum vertical load on a hitch? Is there anything i should modify? Lift the rear suspension? How? What do I need to adjust? Any suggestion in Atlanta? I have no tools to modify. Recommended mechanic around Atlanta?


Thanks for reading and thanks for any suggestion, recommendation, help.

Cheers.


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