Prepare Under-Vehicle Access and Remove Spare Tire

and work on it so guys we've got all our tools together and we're going to go ahead we've got our wrench we got our torque wrench and we've got our socket and I'm just going to use my Dewalt impact to get everything loose here we're going to loosen all the bolts and install this thing just in case you're watching this video to see if you want to do this yourself there aren't very many bolts under here we're going to go underneath this thing mounts basically are two sections that mount and they just go right up to these bolts right here and they just match right up this is the extended bumper and this hitch is designed to mount right up with the extended bumper and come out to about right here that's what the picture showed anyway so we're going to go ahead and put it in very simple we're going to unbolt some bolts and we'll slide them in place here okay while I'm doing this I'm doing my very best to not scratch the crap out of my trailer hitch I don't know if you've driven down the road and seen somebody's old rusty crappy trailer hitch not cool so if we've got the paint on this we're going to touch it up so first things first we're not going to be able to fit our wrench up in here without pulling the spare tire down I'm going to see what a pain-in-the-butt it is to pull the spare tire down so it's probably a blessing I'm going to have to pull the spare tire down this guy right here I've never done it before I don't even know how to do it so I'm going to learn how to do that that way at some point I'm going to get a flat tire and if I need to change it and I'm in the mud somewhere I'll know exactly what I'm doing you want to be a homesteader you want to be smart put on your own things okay be smart be a man be a woman be an adult learn how to work on stuff learn how things work it's a smart thing to do one day you may not have somebody to help you so getting the spare tire out of the Sprinter van is like Rubik's Cube I think I figured it out right here there's a little tab and you take a screwdriver and you pop that tab up and underneath there is a bolt there's one on each side and your tire wrench fits on there but we've got an impact wrench so we'll loosen those bolts and the spare tire should drop kind of a difficult design normally you you wouldn't have something like this the tool kit does come with a flat tip screwdriver so you can pop those little tabs up so that's good we'll pop this tire down now this is now loose we can raise that up and drop the…