Spring bar differences UPDATE
So I received my new 1500# Reese spring bars and immediately noticed a difference in the bend at the end. The 1500# new one is one top in the picture. Thought, could the older bar with less bend h...
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***Depending on how old your DC is, the new bars may be too wide for it!!!!***
A new 1200# Draw-Tite that Cequent sent me to replace my cracked 1000# round bar setup from 2004 would not work with my DC (also purchased in 2004). The bars were wider at the bent end than the older ones, and would bind in the DC, enough that one side when it released bent the chain hanger and even punched in the inside of the frame. And, the bars were different in the bent area, just like your pics. One thing I noticed was that the bent area was swelled out, where the forging (??) shaped the bends. Grinding them down may have helped, but I was not willing to do that with a new setup, so I went out and found a very lightly used 1000# setup, and have been using that for the last 15 mos without any problems with the DC.
Slide them through the cam and hanger and move them sideways a bit, like they will twist when turning. If there is almost no clearance, I would be very careful using them with the old DC cams.
Reese (Draw-Tite) have produced 3 versions of the DC cams, I believe. If you look at my previous posts (back around Nov of 2013) you will find many pages of info of this, just not with mine but other DC differences.
You may be ok, depending on how old your DC is.
A new 1200# Draw-Tite that Cequent sent me to replace my cracked 1000# round bar setup from 2004 would not work with my DC (also purchased in 2004). The bars were wider at the bent end than the older ones, and would bind in the DC, enough that one side when it released bent the chain hanger and even punched in the inside of the frame. And, the bars were different in the bent area, just like your pics. One thing I noticed was that the bent area was swelled out, where the forging (??) shaped the bends. Grinding them down may have helped, but I was not willing to do that with a new setup, so I went out and found a very lightly used 1000# setup, and have been using that for the last 15 mos without any problems with the DC.
Slide them through the cam and hanger and move them sideways a bit, like they will twist when turning. If there is almost no clearance, I would be very careful using them with the old DC cams.
Reese (Draw-Tite) have produced 3 versions of the DC cams, I believe. If you look at my previous posts (back around Nov of 2013) you will find many pages of info of this, just not with mine but other DC differences.
You may be ok, depending on how old your DC is.
