Andersen Aluminum Ultimate Hitch Redesigned

laknox wrote:

Me Again wrote:


With both the Andersen and Companion the hitch base is pulled down onto the bed floor. The Turnover Ball holds it down. The load is placed on the sheet metal and tophats on the bottom of the bed. Verses onto the frame in puck and rail systems.

Some on here is the pass have claimed that it can for held down by the Turnover Ball and held up at the same time!!!!!!! Chris

Yes, the TO Ball base holds the Companion (or Andersen) down, while pulling the frame UP, but it also supports the base and transfers that load directly to the frame. On my '02, the foot pads of the Companion are directly over the frame rails and act more to stabilize the Companion than to carry the load. If your supposition were correct, I certainly wouldn't need those heavy cross-members to support the Companion. Now, take out the Companion and hook up my GN trailer. Where is that =entire= pin load carried? Yep, right on the ball, meaning that the entire sub-frame is carrying the load, with =nothing= on the bed!

Lyle

If your hitch is full forward as mine was in my 11 Dually then sitting still the pin is directly above the post that the hitch attaches to. Now you push and pull the RV and the load transfers to the base. If you have the spacers then the road gets transferred to the bed rails and then to the frame.

Now if you have the hitch mounted towards the back then there is weight directly being placed from the base to the bed just sitting there.