Trailer weight clarification
#11
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Yes it will be free but my main concern is if this will work for me and also if I can back up with this thing still attached to the trailer?
I can see it being a PITA that you have to get out of your truck and disconnect certain things from the trailer just to back it up lol
I can see it being a PITA that you have to get out of your truck and disconnect certain things from the trailer just to back it up lol
#12
Grumpy Old Man
All the EAZ-lift WD hitches I have seen are cheap hitches, with "sway bars" instead of built-in sway control. Better than no WD hitch at all, but really lacking in sway control.
Specs say 760 lb tongue weight for 6000 lb unloaded weight.
Tongue weight of 760 pounds is 12.67%of a 6,000 pound trailer. But nobody tows an empty trailer. So ignore those specs and use the GVWR of the trailer times 13% to get a probable tongue weight of a wet and loaded trailer.
7300 GVWR times 13% = 949 max tongue weight. So the EAZ-Lift 1000 is the right EAZ-Lift for that trailer.
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ColbyL (02-16-2016)
#13
Grumpy Old Man
Yes it will be free but my main concern is if this will work for me and also if I can back up with this thing still attached to the trailer?
I can see it being a PITA that you have to get out of your truck and disconnect certain things from the trailer just to back it up lol
I can see it being a PITA that you have to get out of your truck and disconnect certain things from the trailer just to back it up lol
You cannot back up with any cheap hitch that uses sway bars for sway control, until after you disconnect the sway bars. Disconnecting the sway bars is a simple job, but you do have to exit the tow vehicle to getter done. Yes, that's a PITA. That's one reason I don't recommend cheap hitches.
Towing a TT is a serious task. Pay a bit more and get one of the good WD/sway control hitches mentioned above, and you can back up with no concern about bending a sway bar.