Equalizer L- brackets Bending

demiles wrote:
As I posted earlier the cracking of the square tubing that holds the spring bars has made the bending irrelevant at this point. here's a few pics of the cracks at the end of the tubes.

Here's the quote I got from Equal-i-zer about the cracks in the square sockets of my hitch. They also requested pictures which I sent. They sent me new square sockets free. If you go that route remember to ask for replacement stickers that go on on the sockets.

These may be just stress-relief crackling. These are normal. Our sockets are
case-hardened, which means that the outside shell of them is harder than the
innards. This hardening goes in about the thickness of a doubled-over matchbook
cover. What ends up happening is all the outer surfaces are hardened only to a
certain thin depth, while the majority of the material maintains a technically
softer interior. This case-hardening process creates the ideal combination of a
hard, thin outer surface while maintaining a softer core. If you could imagine a
racquetball being covered with a candy shell, like Skittles or M&M's, this is
the best analogy to the case hardening process. As you pinch the racquetball,
the surface would crackle, but the inside compresses. When you let it go, it
comes back to its original form, but as with the skittle or M&M, the hard shell
would have cracks in it. Some of the crackling on the surface will even
intersect, but that doesn't signify a true structural crack that penetrates all
the way through the material from top to bottom. To be sure that they are
stress-relief crackling and not something more serious, you could take a few
pictures from the top view of the sockets and send them back in an e mail

It might be worth an email.