Dual Cam Setup
I'm working on setting up a new Reese Dual Cam setup. I think I need a 1" extended ball, and wonder if I would benefit from a 2". Here's are some photos of where I'm at now: Side view, I think...
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We had a 4 hour shakedown run. Most of the time it was windy. How windy? That's hard to say, gusts strong enough to pull the car or trailer door out of your hand. Strong enough to blow a baseball cap off.
I did feel like I was getting blown around some, but not as if the trailer was going one way and I was going the other, if that makes sense.
Now, possibly more importantly, after about 4-5 hours of drive time the 1/2-13 self tapping bolts for the dual cam were a little loose. They were originally tightened to 35 ft/lbs not the 50 ft/lbs specified in the install manual.
I don't understand how that manual can provide a torque value without knowing the wall thickness you are using. A thicker wall is going to support more torque vs a thin one....
As far as I can tell the bolt is going into 1/8" thick metal, that's really only 1.6 (13 threads/inch * 1/8 inch) threads for holding the bolt in. I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about that.
I could not measure the wall thickness of the frame tube, but I measured the end cap and am assuming it's the same thickness as the frame tube.
There's no way my frame was going to support 50ft lbs. It's hard to explain but you can feel when your "pushing it". As you turn the bolt, it continues to get harder to turn and eventually it doesn't get any harder to turn and if you keep going, it just strips out. 35 ft/lbs was as much as I was will to "push it". I used red lock-tite and reapplied it when I re-torqued the bolts. I don't think there are enough threads for it to do it's thing though.
I'm going to see what Reese says about the self tapping bolts, but I think a different fastener might be be more appropriate.
I did feel like I was getting blown around some, but not as if the trailer was going one way and I was going the other, if that makes sense.
Now, possibly more importantly, after about 4-5 hours of drive time the 1/2-13 self tapping bolts for the dual cam were a little loose. They were originally tightened to 35 ft/lbs not the 50 ft/lbs specified in the install manual.
I don't understand how that manual can provide a torque value without knowing the wall thickness you are using. A thicker wall is going to support more torque vs a thin one....
As far as I can tell the bolt is going into 1/8" thick metal, that's really only 1.6 (13 threads/inch * 1/8 inch) threads for holding the bolt in. I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about that.
I could not measure the wall thickness of the frame tube, but I measured the end cap and am assuming it's the same thickness as the frame tube.
There's no way my frame was going to support 50ft lbs. It's hard to explain but you can feel when your "pushing it". As you turn the bolt, it continues to get harder to turn and eventually it doesn't get any harder to turn and if you keep going, it just strips out. 35 ft/lbs was as much as I was will to "push it". I used red lock-tite and reapplied it when I re-torqued the bolts. I don't think there are enough threads for it to do it's thing though.
I'm going to see what Reese says about the self tapping bolts, but I think a different fastener might be be more appropriate.
