Good and Bad about Blue Ox Sway Pro

Mike Up wrote:
Thanks John. I completely agree about what you're saying. The people I talked with at Blue Ox previously, swear that the new Sway Pro controls sway much better than the old with the friction control bolts. They are really proud of the system and proved that point to me, as I spoke to an engineer and the VP and there were several posts.

Unfortunately, my dealer wouldn't pony up for an entire new system and only replaced the obvious broken parts. Now that I'm seeing more damage that couldn't be seen until the system was pulled and dismantled a few times, I'm think I'm done with it. I just don't trust the Reese Dual Cam parts as there maybe other unforseen stresses that could cause failure.

Besides if it was all new, I wouldn't trust it not to bind up again. I wish I would had bought a new Equalizer or Blue Ox system with the new trailer. To many issues with the Dual Cam bars contacting the cam arm lobe brackets and mainly due to Reeses direction saying 5 links are needed which doesn't provide enough clearance.

Thanks again.

Mike,

IMO I think the Equal-i-zer might be the system you would like. While a fine system the Reese just has too many parts and quirks in setting it up like placement of the brackets on the frame and drilling holes, etc. for my liking. I went thru the same process to some extent when I changed from my old single "friction bar" system for our new trailer. Neither the Blue-Ox Pro or Anderson were available at that time, but I still would have chosen the Equal-i-zer since I understand it simplistic approach and just have a hard time putting my faith in things like tapered ball seats and "special" WDH bar tapers to substitute for the more traditional "friction/brute force" methods. Obviously the high end "premium" systems (HA, Pull-Rite, Pro-Pride) are in a category of their own an not a consideration here. The only "quirks" with the Equal-i-zer is/was the "L" brackets (moving, retaining nuts loosening, excessive slop) and improvements addressing some of these minor issues have been incorporated since I got my system back in 2007.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Larry