sway bars
As you can tell by my username I'm new to the RV world, just picked up our trailer yesterday not knowing anything about towing a trailer this size down the road and it was a white knuckle ride to say ...
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Roundtwo-40 wrote:
If you and your friend are mechanically inclined do it yourself (there are you tube videos that show you how) the one kicker is that the ball has to be torqued to 400+ footpounds.. (ie big air impact wrench or long cheater bar) and the socket is a tight fit (equalizer sells a turned down socket for 50+$) but some say they have been able to use a short socket or 1 3/4" and get it to work. Good Luck!
On edit: $900 for an installed Equalizer hitch??? OUCH..my 14k (biggest they sell) was $600 delivered (RVW)...talk about padding the labor..
X2 on installing the ball and finding the big 1-3/4" socket! A buddy of mine has a body shop so I took my EQ head over there and he torqued the ball for me.
BTW, you DO NOT need a thin wall socket as you can put the WD bars in the sockets and rotate them out of the way so a standard wall socket will work. When you're doing this of course, you will have the Hitch Head mounted on your hitch upside down. The hitch holds the Hitch Head so you can torque it. Sliding the Hitch Head into the hitch upside down makes it easy to get to the nut on the ball.
