10000 harbor freight hitch up to par???
hello all, i have a 28 foot 2004 blaze'n toy hauler and seems to have a incredible tongue weight. we do not haul toys in it yet but plan to in the next year after its paid off more.i have a 10000 lb h...
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1. Get your actual tongue weight to find out if the WDH has the capacity for your setup.
2. With the air bags deflated and trailer unhitched measure the height of the front wheel well. Hitch the trailer up without WDH and measure the front height again. You then want to attach the WDH and adjust for half the difference of your two measurements. This can be done by adjusting hitch head angle (space washers) or the number of chain link on the load bars to the hangers.
3. Once your WDH is properly adjusted, adjust the pressure in your air bags to almost level out your ride (slightly lower tail is OK).
After seven years towing a heavy toy hauler (about 40K miles of which 5K was off road) and another year of towing my enclosed trailer, my original Reese hitch head started to egg out at the load bar sockets. I just replaced the hitch head with the Harbor Freight model and kept the rest of the original setup after measuring for wear on the bars and finding no difference in diameter to the new bars. Unlike the Reese, the Harbor Freight model has Zerk grease fittings for the load bars and should make PM's easier when on the road. I leave shortly on a 5K mile trip and should have some feed back on the new (about 100 miles use so far) hitch head by the time I return.
2. With the air bags deflated and trailer unhitched measure the height of the front wheel well. Hitch the trailer up without WDH and measure the front height again. You then want to attach the WDH and adjust for half the difference of your two measurements. This can be done by adjusting hitch head angle (space washers) or the number of chain link on the load bars to the hangers.
3. Once your WDH is properly adjusted, adjust the pressure in your air bags to almost level out your ride (slightly lower tail is OK).
After seven years towing a heavy toy hauler (about 40K miles of which 5K was off road) and another year of towing my enclosed trailer, my original Reese hitch head started to egg out at the load bar sockets. I just replaced the hitch head with the Harbor Freight model and kept the rest of the original setup after measuring for wear on the bars and finding no difference in diameter to the new bars. Unlike the Reese, the Harbor Freight model has Zerk grease fittings for the load bars and should make PM's easier when on the road. I leave shortly on a 5K mile trip and should have some feed back on the new (about 100 miles use so far) hitch head by the time I return.
