Equalizer hitch failure
This was our second trip with our new Zinger 27RL and the new equalizer hitch that we purchased when we picked up the trailer. The first trip was about 20 miles each way to overnight at a local RV pa...
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RinconVTR wrote:markandkim wrote:
I will never buy one now. Dont trust cast steel with that much load bobbin up and down there. I can see that it is cast! Surprized there arent alot more with this issue.
Uh, good luck finding a WHD without cast components.
And it turns out this along with any manufacturing or material issue could not be further from the root cause. Your rant needs to be focused on the dealer that didn't read the instructions for....who knows how many installs. THATS SCARY.
The hitch head is cast, that's obvious. But the sockets are steel tube and case hardened.
I had some cracks in my sockets and exchanged a few emails with Progress mfg. That's how I found out about the case hardening.
The square steel tube I got from watching a video on how Equal-i-zers are constructed.
That's as far as I'm going with quoting my sources. :)
