Dodge Durango Forum II

Depends on how you use your truck...

For purely on road use, the plug is nice to have but is as much cosmetic as functional. The receiver can get rusty inside. This can make it difficult to slide your drawbar into the receiver (messy too). If you go off road with no plug or other device in the receiver, you can get mud/sand/trail debris jammed in there. Having spent almost half an hour getting the packed sand out of my rear receiver down at the beach this summer, I'll never venture out without having at least a plug in there. And the drawbar had only been out for a couple days. I normally leave drawbars in both front and rear receivers all the time (one with a tow ball and one with a clevis). I had taken the tow ball unit out so I could use the clevis unit to pull somebody out. I then put the clevis unit back in the front so as not to get that one packed with sand. Didn't figure the rear one would be much of an issue. Couple days later it was time to hook up the trailer again. Sand in the receiver was like cement. I can only imagine what the front one would have been like had I left it open. And of ccourse, I would have been cleaning that one out when I was already buried in the sand. Even after twenty years of four-wheeling, there are still lessons to be learned.

- Jim L

Thu Aug 31