Hitch choices ??
This spring I am upgrading from my 23'TT to a coachman freedom express 33' toy hauler TT.So I'm feeling with an extra 10' of side area and a higher stance I should upgrade my hitch from the regular we...
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I’ve been looking for a good place to bring this up without starting a new thread, and I guess this is as good a place as any. I know this topic of hitches (and tongue weight) has been talked to death, in fact over the past couple weeks I waded through all 53 paged of the sticky on Hensley Hitches plus everything else I could find on the ProPride 3P and the Reese straight line dual cam hitch. I’ve towed with an Equalizer 4 point hitch for a while now so I’m fairly familiar with how it performs.
Some of this is repetitive from other threads so I apologize in advance.
This past November I bought a 2013 Silverado 2500 HD, 2 WD, CC, standard bed, HD towing package, with the Duramax/Allison—3069 lbs payload, 17,400 lb. max trailer weight, 24,500 lb. GCVWR, and a 1,500 lb. TW (13,000 lb. max trailer weight) class V hitch (2.5” opening).
The hitch itself looks pretty substantial for an OEM—it looks to be about a 3” boxed construction (too cold to measure it right now) click, not the thin walled tubular hitch click
We bought this truck with the idea of upgrading to a bigger TT this summer, probably 3-4 months from now. We’ve decided on a 35’ Jay Flight 33RLDS (because we love the floor plan). We looked real hard at the Jayco Eagle 338RLTS, but shied away because it 5” longer, around 1,000 lbs heavier, and about $10-$15,000 more expensive.
The Factory lists the 33RLDS at 7,885 lbs. with a dry tongue weight of 1,060, but from looking at yellow stickers on several of them with different options, 8,500 lbs. dry and somewhere around 1,140 lb. TW (dry) is probably more realistic. Besides being 35’ long, this thing has 2 HUGE opposing slideouts in the back so I’m guessing there’s a pretty good potential for sway.
All that being said, the next step is to decide on a hitch. With all due respect to the Equalizer (it’s a really good hitch), I just don’t think it’s the best choice for something this big. So I’ve narrowed it down to two hitches; the 1,500/15,000 Reese Straight line dual cam, and the Propride 3P 1,400. The reason I’m not considering the Hensley is because they don’t make a 2.5” shank to fit my class V receiver (plus the ProPride is cheaper…Hey, I’m retired on a pension. Every nickel counts).
I have a basic (non-engineer) understanding of how these two hitches work, but whichever one you happen to prefer…give me your best argument for why I should go with that hitch and not the other one.
Some of this is repetitive from other threads so I apologize in advance.
This past November I bought a 2013 Silverado 2500 HD, 2 WD, CC, standard bed, HD towing package, with the Duramax/Allison—3069 lbs payload, 17,400 lb. max trailer weight, 24,500 lb. GCVWR, and a 1,500 lb. TW (13,000 lb. max trailer weight) class V hitch (2.5” opening).
The hitch itself looks pretty substantial for an OEM—it looks to be about a 3” boxed construction (too cold to measure it right now) click, not the thin walled tubular hitch click
We bought this truck with the idea of upgrading to a bigger TT this summer, probably 3-4 months from now. We’ve decided on a 35’ Jay Flight 33RLDS (because we love the floor plan). We looked real hard at the Jayco Eagle 338RLTS, but shied away because it 5” longer, around 1,000 lbs heavier, and about $10-$15,000 more expensive.
The Factory lists the 33RLDS at 7,885 lbs. with a dry tongue weight of 1,060, but from looking at yellow stickers on several of them with different options, 8,500 lbs. dry and somewhere around 1,140 lb. TW (dry) is probably more realistic. Besides being 35’ long, this thing has 2 HUGE opposing slideouts in the back so I’m guessing there’s a pretty good potential for sway.
All that being said, the next step is to decide on a hitch. With all due respect to the Equalizer (it’s a really good hitch), I just don’t think it’s the best choice for something this big. So I’ve narrowed it down to two hitches; the 1,500/15,000 Reese Straight line dual cam, and the Propride 3P 1,400. The reason I’m not considering the Hensley is because they don’t make a 2.5” shank to fit my class V receiver (plus the ProPride is cheaper…Hey, I’m retired on a pension. Every nickel counts).
I have a basic (non-engineer) understanding of how these two hitches work, but whichever one you happen to prefer…give me your best argument for why I should go with that hitch and not the other one.
