New WD Hitch Needed- Reese DC or SC?
We are very seriously considering upgrading to a new trailer, a Jayco 32BHDS. Listed dry tw is ~900lbs, so I am figuring after propane and battery, close to 1200lbs + what is loaded in the trailer, so...
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Need-A-Vacation wrote:
Kevin,
Do you have the "assist handle" (or whatever it is called) to "latch" the bars up? Even with the DC system you generally need to raise the tongue/ truck up to latch the bars up even with the assist handle.
How long is your trailer?
Just a crazy thought, have you ever weighed your combo? Could you be transferring a little to much weight back to the trucks front wheels?
I do have the assist handle, but the handle hits the ground and is useless until the tongue is jacked fairly high in the air. I have considered cutting the handle off short and welding/bolting an extension on at 90 degrees. The only thing holding me back from trying this is that if it doesn't work I will have just a wrecked handle...
Our trailer, if I remeber right is 27' plus tongue.
I haven't weighed it yet. The day I set the hitch up I was very short on time. It is a good idea though, I should do it next time I have it out of the shed. We have a truck scale at the farm yard just two miles from the house, so I really have no reason not to weigh it, just have never gotten to it yet.
I set the hitch as per the instructions. Without it the back of the truck drops down and the front fenders lift 1". With the WD hitch on the truck sags 1/2" at all four corners. It pulls very straight and stable.
