Me too. I use the E2 Round Bar setup. It can make creeking and groaning noises, but all-in-all it has been a good setup for me.
Weight Distributing Hitches - What they do.
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Me too. I use the E2 Round Bar setup. It can make creeking and groaning noises, but all-in-all it has been a good setup for me.
Not sure I follow you.
With no distribution, the front of the truck moves up. (See my second image, the front is much lighter with no WD)
With distribution you push the front back down, although usually only 1/2 as much as it raised up.
Yea, when I drove home from the dealer mine was WAY over disributed. It wasn't a bad drive, but I knew something wasn't right.
Ended up having to get a longer shank (The Ranger rear end is WAYYYY up in the air) and took a washer out of the hitch head, to get everything to where it should have been.
Receiver - 'receives' the draw bar.
Hitch is the part that connects it all together.
Admittedly, a lot of the time they're used to mean the same thing. I just grew up calling it a 'receiver hitch' meaning you could swap in and out different draw bars as opposed to a single, fixed hitch.
Receiver:
Hitch/Drawbar:
Also a 'Hitch' but Fixed in place with no receiver:
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That's a tow ball on a ball mount.
Mythbusters or somebody not too far back talked about several steps to fix this issue.
Weight distribution hitch video
Good video for explaining how it works!
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And a combination of not enough anti-sway and not enough tow vehicle:
I want my tow vehicle to boss the trailer, not the other way around. Too bad the driver didn't know how to recover by letting off the gas and applying the trailer brake.
I want my tow vehicle to boss the trailer, not the other way around. Too bad the driver didn't know how to recover by letting off the gas and applying the trailer brake.
Especially if you are using an equilizer sway control hitch
Exactly, things are fine till they aren't. Not enough wheel base, not enough sway control and probably the tow vehicle does not have enough weight. And the driver has little experience. As you stated staying off the vehicle brakes but activating the trailer brakes. The earlier you do this, the better. The tail wagged the dog.
People who tow too much trailer with an undersized suv don't realize how fast it can get out of hand, till it happens. The wind off that semi, blew against the rear of the trailer and started the sway.
Depending on how he loaded it, the bikes on the rear may have also reduced the tongue weight.
this is what I use successfully
It would have been interesting to see the hitch setup there-wonder if a sway control was used at all. Very easily could have rolled it over that guardrail…
