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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I love how my DC performs, but I've had issues with mounting on both trailers I've had it on. My first trailer was 26', 2x4 thin wall tube A-frame and 5600 lbs with 850 lbs of tongue weight. Bolts on one side stripped trying to get to 50 ft-lbs, I never tightened up the other side as much and it was always fine. The other side I fished self locking nuts inside the frame and it was fine as well.
2nd trailer, 29' long, 7500lbs (guess), and 1300lbs tongue weight (sherline scale). I upgraded to 1200 lb bars and had all sorts of issues last year on a trip. By day 2 bolts were pulling out and I could see the bars really rubbing and catching on the cams and cam chain link. By the time I was 1+ week into the trip near Boston I just took one of the cams off the trailer and connected the chain directly to the w/d bar. End of summer I bought a new w/d head from Reese with the raised ball mount, made 2x2 angle iron brackets for the inside and outside of the frame and bolted thru. The angle iron brackets are 3 times longer than the Reese bracket. I also started putting vasaline on the cams and ground the edges of my 1200 lb bars down near the cam as they are fat in places. I see one cam bracket still wiggles just a little vertically and am thinking of bolting it up from the bottom to prevent it from moving vertically at all. Anyone try that? At least it isn't twisting, pulling bolts and bending up my A-frame anymore.
2nd trailer, 29' long, 7500lbs (guess), and 1300lbs tongue weight (sherline scale). I upgraded to 1200 lb bars and had all sorts of issues last year on a trip. By day 2 bolts were pulling out and I could see the bars really rubbing and catching on the cams and cam chain link. By the time I was 1+ week into the trip near Boston I just took one of the cams off the trailer and connected the chain directly to the w/d bar. End of summer I bought a new w/d head from Reese with the raised ball mount, made 2x2 angle iron brackets for the inside and outside of the frame and bolted thru. The angle iron brackets are 3 times longer than the Reese bracket. I also started putting vasaline on the cams and ground the edges of my 1200 lb bars down near the cam as they are fat in places. I see one cam bracket still wiggles just a little vertically and am thinking of bolting it up from the bottom to prevent it from moving vertically at all. Anyone try that? At least it isn't twisting, pulling bolts and bending up my A-frame anymore.
