Help with hitch and ball setup
Hello, I just purchased a used 2009 keystone hideout 26b and am picking it up this week. Since I had a pop up trailer before I need to get another receiver and ball to fit. The problem is, it is about...
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That If the dry tongue weight is 655, that will likely put you north of 800lbs of actual tongue weight. 800lbs of tongue weight will add somewhere between 1000 and 1200lbs to the rear axle (tongue weight plus the weight transferred off the front axle).
Odds are Ford recommends a weight distributing hitch for anything more than 500 lbs of tongue weight. Is there a safety factor engineered into it? Probably. Will anything break in a 20 minute drive? Probably not. Would I do it? Not a chance. The rough setup of the hitch shouldn't take more than an hour following the instructions. If you don't have time to do that, wait until you do to make the pick-up. Seriously... It really is the right way to do it.
Odds are Ford recommends a weight distributing hitch for anything more than 500 lbs of tongue weight. Is there a safety factor engineered into it? Probably. Will anything break in a 20 minute drive? Probably not. Would I do it? Not a chance. The rough setup of the hitch shouldn't take more than an hour following the instructions. If you don't have time to do that, wait until you do to make the pick-up. Seriously... It really is the right way to do it.
