Weight Distribution Hitches for Trailering; Any Suggestions?

[rstanek]

As Joe said there are no problems backing. Only thing I've found is removing the EZ lift (or at least loosening it) when pulling into campgrounds where you might have tight turns. I snapped a ball off last summer. Luckily didn't do any damage. Amazon delivered one right to the campsite.

This is the one I have.







https://www.campingworld.com/camco-e...B&gclsrc=aw.ds

My rig is 30 ft. and probably about 10 ft high (not sure on height though).

I have the same setup, never any issues, just use common sense when turning and backing, I have been using this system since 1996

[Slippy]

Thanks rstanek, what size truck if you don't mind me asking?

I have the same setup, never any issues, just use common sense when turning and backing, I have been using this system since 1996

[Slippy]

Thanks Sas! You tow with your Tundra, right? Whats the GVWR on your rig?

As Joe said there are no problems backing. Only thing I've found is removing the EZ lift (or at least loosening it) when pulling into campgrounds where you might have tight turns. I snapped a ball off last summer. Luckily didn't do any damage. Amazon delivered one right to the campsite.

This is the one I have.



https://www.campingworld.com/camco-e...B&gclsrc=aw.ds

My rig is 30 ft. and probably about 10 ft high (not sure on height though).

[Mad Trapper]

Thanks Sas! You tow with your Tundra, right? Whats the GVWR on your rig?

Damm, I'm jelous. I'm running a 40 9N and a 52 fergy TO30.

[Sasquatch]

Thanks Sas! You tow with your Tundra, right? Whats the GVWR on your rig?

67-72.

[Slippy]

Thanks Joe, truck type if you don't mind me asking?

I use an Easy Lift weight distributing hitch.
I am of the mind that weight distribution is the only real means of controlling sway.
Not slidy things, not grippy-grabby things, not shock absorby things.
Weight distribution.
Weigh the Fully loaded, (likely Improperly loaded) trailer, move stuff to the front to get proper tongue weight, drop it on the truck. If the truck squats, get a weight distributing hitch. CALL the manufactures tech line for advise: they are sitting there just waiting for YOU to call.

Joe

[red442joe]

Thanks Joe, truck type if you don't mind me asking?

I have a '71 GMC 3/4 ton, 330 Olds, Sagiaw 4-speed, 3.56 axle, pulling a 36' two car trailer I designed and built.
Trailer is 1900#, open center, four rail, 32' deck, 4' tongue, 2-5/16ths ball, 102" wide, two 6k# axles, brakes on both axles, 235/85-16 E rated tires, with 7' aluminum ramps.
The axles are on a sliding subframe that moves 18".
With no rear bumper I can jack-knife well beyond 90°.
Built to take two race cars out to the street drags.
Where ever the truck can make a u-turn, I can spin the trailer around. I enjoyed taking it through the fast food drive throughs.
I got my Sister doing dealer trades for the tow company, behind a '99 Ram 2500 with a 5.9 Cummins.
That's how she got into driving truck, just passed her million miles with Marten, about a million before that.
I pulled about 150k worth of new Lexus on the Ohio turnpike running with some flatbed wreckers one night, at 100 mph. They wanted to go faster!
Anywho....the EZ Lift has been ZERO trouble. Heaviest I've been is scaled at 9.5k on the GMC with 11.5k on the trailer.

Joe

[Slippy]

Awesome setup! How many miles on the '71 GMC?

I have a '71 GMC 3/4 ton, 330 Olds, Sagiaw 4-speed, 3.56 axle, pulling a 36' two car trailer I designed and built.
Trailer is 1900#, open center, four rail, 32' deck, 4' tongue, 2-5/16ths ball, 102" wide, two 6k# axles, brakes on both axles, 235/85-16 E rated tires, with 7' aluminum ramps.
The axles are on a sliding subframe that moves 18".
With no rear bumper I can jack-knife well beyond 90°.
Built to take two race cars out to the street drags.
Where ever the truck can make a u-turn, I can spin the trailer around. I enjoyed taking it through the fast food drive throughs.
I got my Sister doing dealer trades for the tow company, behind a '99 Ram 2500 with a 5.9 Cummins.
That's how she got into driving truck, just passed her million miles with Marten, about a million before that.
I pulled about 150k worth of new Lexus on the Ohio turnpike running with some flatbed wreckers one night, at 100 mph. They wanted to go faster!
Anywho....the EZ Lift has been ZERO trouble. Heaviest I've been is scaled at 9.5k on the GMC with 11.5k on the trailer.

Joe

[T-Man 1066]

Can't speak to towing travel trailers, but once I started pulling my 26' 7 ton gooseneck, tag trailers are only for class B (5000#) or smaller. Goosenecks tow like a dream, not sensitive to tongue weight.

[Denton]

If my memory serves me, we used Reese sway bars. They worked really well. Smooth as silk on the road and no problem backing.
That was decades ago. I’m ignint about the new-fangled gadgets.