What are some good hitch removal tricks

I bought this jeep and the hitch won't budge.

I've sprayed blaster rust lube in the small gaps and after two days soak tried knocking it out with a small heavy hammer and its still not breaking free.

Ideas??

heat is your friend. Torch it

Soak it in PB blaster for days, spray it twice a day for a week. Then heat. If possible, hit it with a propane torch and then beat it with a large hammer. If you can get at it from both ends, try that.

Hook it to a really heavy trailer or tie the trailer to a tree. Use the jeep to pull it out. You talking about the receiver or the ball coming out of the receiver?

Heat, spray, sledge hammer, repeat. lol

Sometimes nothing works....

hook a chain to the hitch and a tree. drive forward

Hook onto a heavy trailer and hit the rough dirt roads.

The pounding will knock the rust out and vibrate it loose in no time.

WS

I found it best to get up under vehicle and drive it out with a sledge hammer, maybe using another receiver to hit on.

Hook a log chain to it and snap it like a whip. May take a bunch of tries before it works. Used to pull stuck axles like that. Works kind of like a slide hammer.

Needs the Hot wrench…..dealt with one of those last week

Put a floor jack underneath it and see if you can break the corrosive seal

Yes indeed gravity box full of corn works

A torch is gonna be your best friend here. Get it good and glowing hot all the way around and go at it like you mean it with a heavy hammer

penetrating oil takes time to work , keep applying get from front and back

if you have the time spray it 2x a week for a few weeks

then drive it out often have to take the spare tire down for that

if that doesn't work a new hitch assembly is probably the smart way to go all new bolts and re-attach it to the frame

how much do you trust something rusted that bad

fluid film spray each time you put your hitch in after you get it out and clean it out

Alot of times you can drive it out from under the vehicle most receivers are not seal on the back.

We had a ball mount get rusted tight in a receiver at work on one of our 1 ton trucks. That truck regularly towed a flat trailer with a bobcat on it so the heavy trailer thing wasn't going to work. We beat that thing with a sledge hammer for 20 minutes in all directions and put a propane rosebud on it and got the receiver cherry red on the bottom. We tried prying it with a round pry bar through the receiver pin hole.

This is a maintenance shop with a half dozen guys who fix stuff for a living and we surrendered and let it stay where it was.

The Receiver

Not good

Soak it with pb get 8lb sledg. and beat it till it comes off.

I never leave mine in unless I'm using it. Mostly because I've smacked my shin against it and possible theft even with a lock. Plus the stainless ones are a bit cleaner sitting behind the seat. Bet this would lock up real good with the dissimilar metals.


Edit - it looks a little pink as it is reflecting the red shirt I was wearing while taking the picture.