Hitch - Weight Carrying Capacity
Was reading some other active posts in towing section and have a question on weight carrying capacity that does not seem to get addressed. I also want to expand my knowledge of course. Is this cap...
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Some times things can be over thought...especially if a technical background :)
I generally do not like to have fasteners in shear. Prefer to have either a hardened
shear tube or counter sink & boss or some other mechanism
But...most OEMs has bolts in shear just about everywhere, so have accepted that
As for the proper tightening, of course and lots of folks don't understand that
a bolted union is to 'squeeze' the sandwich of parts together and hold them
together doing it duties
That it is the tension or 'rubber band stretched & pulling it back together'
that is what threaded fasteners are all about
I generally replace with Grade 8's whenever working on this type of thing, but
also know that sequential failure is designed in for some assemblies. WD Hitches
are not, that I can see
For get about the fasteners for a moment and go to the logic diagram of how a
WD Hitch system works. This thread by Ron Gratz is at the top of this forum's
'Towing' section: Weight Distribution (WD) Hitch --- How it Works and is
the best place to have this discussion
I generally do not like to have fasteners in shear. Prefer to have either a hardened
shear tube or counter sink & boss or some other mechanism
But...most OEMs has bolts in shear just about everywhere, so have accepted that
As for the proper tightening, of course and lots of folks don't understand that
a bolted union is to 'squeeze' the sandwich of parts together and hold them
together doing it duties
That it is the tension or 'rubber band stretched & pulling it back together'
that is what threaded fasteners are all about
I generally replace with Grade 8's whenever working on this type of thing, but
also know that sequential failure is designed in for some assemblies. WD Hitches
are not, that I can see
For get about the fasteners for a moment and go to the logic diagram of how a
WD Hitch system works. This thread by Ron Gratz is at the top of this forum's
'Towing' section: Weight Distribution (WD) Hitch --- How it Works and is
the best place to have this discussion
