rctoyguy wrote:
Now I'm wondering if I need to hook up the bars anyway, with very little tension. I looked over the install instructions for this hitch again, and it says:
Rating when used as a weight distributing hitch with spring bars:
tongue weight 1000
max gross trailer weight 10,000
Rating when used as a weight carrying hitch without spring bars:
tongue weight 500 (I'm over that)
max gross trailer weight 5,000 (I'm over that too)
Hoped I could get away without hooking up the bars, but maybe I can't.
Fwiw you could drop a 1000lb tongue weight on the bare hitch, no wd, and not take it off for the next 100000 mi without issue.
If your TT has torsion spring axles you want to get it as close to level as possible because that suspension doesn't modulate between the axels like tandem leafs so whichever axle is on the low side is seeing more load. Otherwise little nose up or down is of little consequence.
