New Truck with a bigger hitch...

Farm Camp wrote:
After several years of trouble free towing our "Blue Monster" crossed the 100K Mile mark and started showing signs of age. My oldest kid also grew 3 inches in 9 months and started to out grow the back seat...

So - We've upgraded to a new truck and now I have a 2-1/2 inch hitch. My Equal-i-zer hitch is on a 2 inch shank. I either have to buy a new shank or a sleeve - thoughts and opinions on a direction?

I started out thinking I'd just get a sleeve, now I'm unsure after reading around...

I upgrade my equalizer to the 2.5" hitch, and keep the sleeve around for my little utility trailer on the 2" hitch.

I didn't like the idea of the hitch pin bending, which seems to be common when using the sleeve with heaver trailers and W/D hitches.

Wasn't cheap (150 bucks or so on e-trailer.com I think), but worth it to not have to deal with the sleeve every time I install the equalizer. And I've had no deformation of the hitch pin.