Dealer gave me wrong equal-I-zer size?

SoundGuy wrote:

nohurry wrote:
IMO, you’re fine. Jayco lists unloaded hitch weight at 365#. It’s a lightweight trailer, and I would bet equal-I-zer over-engineered a bit.

Disagree. The OP's 2015 X23B offers a mere 1045 lbs CCC even before anything including a battery is added to the trailer. With a GVWR of just 4950 lbs his challenge will be to keep the trailer's GVW, loaded & ready to camp, within that 4950 lb limit. At an average 13% gross tongue weight to gross trailer weight he could easily see this trailer's gross tongue weight average in the 650 lb to 700 lb range. To answer the OP's question - yeah, I'd move up to 1000 lb spring bars but that will require a new head as well.

I would hope the dealer would switch out the whole system, as they didn’t ask what I wanted. I’ll call them tomorrow.

nohurry wrote:
IMO, you’re fine. Jayco lists unloaded hitch weight at 365#. It’s a lightweight trailer, and I would bet equal-I-zer over-engineered a bit.

Disagree. The OP's 2015 X23B offers a mere 1045 lbs CCC even before anything including a battery is added to the trailer. With a GVWR of just 4950 lbs his challenge will be to keep the trailer's GVW, loaded & ready to camp, within that 4950 lb limit. At an average 13% gross tongue weight to gross trailer weight he could easily see this trailer's gross tongue weight average in the 650 lb to 700 lb range. To answer the OP's question - yeah, I'd move up to 1000 lb spring bars but that will require a new head as well.

IMO, you’re fine. Jayco lists unloaded hitch weight at 365#. It’s a lightweight trailer, and I would bet equal-I-zer over-engineered a bit. I think your dealer did good. Hook up, and have fun. They’re great hitches.

SoundGuy wrote:

sgip2000 wrote:
The hitch head is the same for most kits.

Not for the Equal-i-zer ... if the OP moves up to 1000 lb spring bars he has to change the head as well.

Do you think I need to move up?

sgip2000 wrote:
The hitch head is the same for most kits.

Not for the Equal-i-zer ... if the OP moves up to 1000 lb spring bars he has to change the head as well.

The hitch head is the same for most kits. The main differences are the bar size and the ball capacity. If the ball supports a higher weight, you can should be able to just swap bars out, if it is even necessary.