Heininger 6039 Advantage SportsRack 2" Anti-Wobble Hitch Bolt Kit

The bolt is too short. And it’s way too expensive.

A part such this is destined to be a bit of a crap shoot because there's no standard for the dimensions for the inside of a 2-inch "stinger" on a bike rack or ball hitch. But the malleable design of this bracket makes it suitable for fitting a variety of different racks.I bought this bracket to mate up with a Swagman locking 5/8" hitch pin, and installed in a bike rack called a "Upright Tote'm" (aka Totem Pole bike rack before the name change). The Tote'm rack threads the stinger, but they use a non-standard pitch (or maybe metric?) so it's a no-go with all of the commonly available locking hitch pins.My solution was to over-drill just one of the threaded holes on the Tote'm, and this anti-wobble nut takes over by engaging with my threaded pin.Because the Heininger nut bracket is plastic (the blue part as pictured; in actuality it's yellow), it is easily shaved down to size to the proper dimension to insert in the stinger. As I took gentle whacks at it with the mallet, the plastic shaved itself (I'm holding one of the curls of self-shaved plastic in the photo). Once the bracket was fully in the tube, I trimmed a piece of wood to roughly fit inside the tube and continue driving the bracket into alignment with the pin hole.If you opt for using a knife, don't shave too much plastic off, because the bracket needs to hold tightly once inserted so that you won't have to goof with alignment each time you install it. Once this is installed, you'll want it to stay in place so that the included square nut is always lined up with the pin hole drilled in the tube.Don't be concerned that the material used is plastic -- this is only used as a device to hold this nut in place when not in use. The plastic also prevents the nut from turning when the hitch pin is being tightened (imagine it's a plastic socket), but because it's bound by the steel tube, there's no room for it to be deflected or deformed by the square nut it's carrying. It also won't rust if it's exposed to the weather.Once you hit the road, the plastic ceases to be a factor -- it's just the nut and the bolt doing what nuts and bolts do: securely clamping two pieces of steel together. The plastic piece doesn't carry any load; it just sits there.All in all a need, tidy, adaptable solution to a threaded hitch pin. Unless of course the thickness of the steel tubing you're inserting this in is so thing that it fits loosely. In that case, all bets are off!I do recommend that, after removing your rack or hitch, you still a pin or bolt into the pin hole and lightly engage the nut, as a preventive step to keep this properly aligned.

Works okey. If fits loosely in the Soft-ride bike carrier so you have to be careful inserting it into the hitch so it does slide and become mid-aligned with the bolt hole. I fixed this by jamming a piece of cardboard between the inside of the trailer hitch and the yellow plastic corrugated edge. If I didn’t use it for another hitch I would simply epoxy it to the inside of the hitch. I’m happy with the product and may purchase another one.

Bolt thread is stripped will not continue threading through the nut...now what?

Perfect item to stop your bike rack from rocking side to side