SkiSmuggs

Keep trailer tires aired to maximum pressure on the sidewall. Check tires and hub temps at every rest/fuel stop. A friend had a tire blow on his trailer and it took the fender off.
Hot tires or hubs indicate a problem.

Fordhyper

Amazing! Thank you very much to all of you, the more i read the more i understand, all your post are very helpful . Especially smokeywren, thank you for that long post, it made things easier to understand.

Any other WDH that doesn't cost $560? That is worthy... Maybe in the $300 range... it's just going to be use once or twice a year

EventHorizon

What I can never figure out is all the people that complain that their "1/2 TON" truck can only hold, surprise half a ton????? Any payload capacity over 1000 lbs you should be grateful for.

smokeywren

Cheap hitches work okay most of the time for weight distribution, but not good enough for sway control. If you've ever had uncontrollable sway then you'll pay a lot to be sure it never happens again.


I insist on a "high end" sway control hitch for me and my loved ones. Reese Strait-Line, Equal-I-Zer or Blue Ox SwayPro. Even better is my very-expensive ProPride on my TT. The high-end hitches are good to control sway 99 percent of the towing conditions you might encounter, while the cheaper hitches are good for about 90% of those conditions. My ProPride hitch increases the sway control to about 99.9% of those conditions.


Those conditions include wet roads, cross winds, evasive action to miss a chug hole, curves in the road, actually running over a chug hole or debris on the road, meeting an 10-wheeler that is barreling down the road at high speed that saucks the trailer sideways as it passes. When you get several of those conditions at the same time, then you'll be glad you paid extra for a high-end sway control hitch.


If you run into those conditions when on the road, whether a few miles from home or on the first towing trip of the year, then you want the sway control of the more expensive hitches.

There are a couple of relatively-new and less expensive sway control WD hitches that might be okay, but they don't have a track record yet, so I wouldn't buy one. Curt TruTrack™ Trunnion Bar WD hitch and Husky Centerline. The "old" Centerline was as good at the Strait-Line, but they redesigned it to reduce the cost so I'm not sure about the new less-expensive Centerline.