Dealer gave me wrong equal-I-zer size?

shades9323 wrote:

SoundGuy wrote:

dodge guy wrote:
Must be a different quoted weight, because the majority of us have said the 600/6000 hitch will work just fine!

OK, I detailed "why" way back on Page 1 but once again ......... :R

The OP's 2015 Jayco X23B is rated for a maximum CCC of just 1045 lbs before anything including a battery or any water or any cargo of any kind is added to the trailer. :( With so little CCC to work with that by definition means his biggest challenge will be keeping his trailer's GVW, loaded & ready to camp, within it's GVWR of just 4950 lbs. Ideally he'd want to be running gross tongue weight in the 13% to 14% range or ~ 640 lbs to ~ 690 lbs, either of which are beyond the rated limits of his Equal-i-zer's 600 lb spring bars which are designed for gross tongue weights up to 600 lbs. Whether you or I or anyone else agrees Progress Mfg has chosen the next heavier size to be 1000 lb spring bars and that's what the OP should be using with his Jayco X23B. It doesn't need to take 7 pages of discussion for anyone to figure this out. :R

Will be hitting the scales on Sunday to flesh out weights. Dealer still thought that the 600/6000 was good. They said if I scale it and TW comes in above 600 to give them a call and we will work it out. My CCC was something like 925 if I remember right. We won't carry water so that saves us 400lbs. We will probably carry about 3-400 (including battery) lbs in the trailer. Again, hitting the scales on Sunday to get the real numbers.

I believe you will be pleasantly surprised, keep in mind though that you may have to move stuff around to arrive at the 12% TW. If it weighs in way! Over 600 then that is too much, and yes you can have too much TW.

Mybtrailer was originally at 1500lbs. I moved stuff around to get it down to where it should be which is 1200lbs. 12%.