SoundGuy wrote:
RTFMOK wrote:
My lady wants to know how much effort is involved in hooking up WD bars.
I do know they are easier to apply if the tongue jack is raised fully first.
Regardless of the type of WD system you're using, regardless of whether you use a power tongue jack or crank manually, the amount of effort required to mount the WD spring bars will always be much easier the longer the mounting tool is. I happen to run a Reese trunnion bar system with 800 lb spring bars and the snap up handle supplied with it was just 18" long, which is fairly typical ... I've extended it to 30" using a length of PVC tubing so the increased leverage makes the task of lifting those spring bars into place MUCH easier. :B
SoundGuy,
You do know if you raise the tongue jack high enough (while hitched up to the tow vehicle), you never have to use a cheater bar at all to lift those snap up handles. The higher it's jacked up, the less effort it takes to snap them up. When I had my old Reese system with those same snap-ups, I never had to use any extra bars. I cranked the tongue up high enough, I could just lift them by hand.
Same with my (now) Equal-i-zer. I never use the bar that came with the system. Simply crank the the tongue up and those bars set right in those L-brackets.
Unless your tongue jack is in the bottom of dip, you really never need to use the cheater bar (pipe). Just crank the tongue up higher.
