New tt is around 6700# max carrying capacity. Wanting to use Equilizer hitch with 800# bars but don't see them advertized. Is the 1000# weight a reasonable choice?Has anyone used the E2 hitch? Seems to have same type of h bracket setup seen on Equilizer brand.

If you go to equalizer website there is a place to enter your weights and it recommends a size for you.

rode2nowhere wrote:If you go to equalizer website there is a place to enter your weights and it recommends a size for you.I did go to this site and they recommend the 1200/12000 model. Hard to agree with this.

I had this same problem recently when I was about to purchase my first TT. It was rated at 7,700# gross. I had narrowed down my selection to the equal-i-zer with 4 point sway control. I used their calculator using my "best guess". Tongue weight was known at 750# and I estimated 200# in truck bed. It also recommended to 1,200/12,000 system. To say that I was skeptical would be an understatement. No matter how I played with the numbers, as long as I stayed within a realistic range it kept selecting the 1,200/12,000.I set it up per the instructions from equal-i-zer and the setup is almost ideal.

Usually WD bar strength is based on 15% of the GVWR or the trailer. My Rockwood has an empty tongue weight from the brochure of 675 lb. and it's actual tongue weight is 1,150 lb. which is very close to 15% Rarely are they MORE than 15% and sometimes they are less.Good luck / Skip

Goldstar225 wrote:---No matter how I played with the numbers, as long as I stayed within a realistic range it kept selecting the 1,200/12,000.I set it up per the instructions from equal-i-zer and the setup is almost ideal.Are you saying you installed the 1200/12000 hitch?What did you consider to be the "ideal" setup, and what did you actually achieve?Ron

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Goldstar225
Explorer
Apr 23, 2013
I had this same problem recently when I was about to purchase my first TT. It was rated at 7,700# gross. I had narrowed down my selection to the equal-i-zer with 4 point sway control. I used their calculator using my "best guess". Tongue weight was known at 750# and I estimated 200# in truck bed. It also recommended to 1,200/12,000 system. To say that I was skeptical would be an understatement. No matter how I played with the numbers, as long as I stayed within a realistic range it kept selecting the 1,200/12,000.

I set it up per the instructions from equal-i-zer and the setup is almost ideal.
oxygen
Explorer II
Apr 22, 2013
rode2nowhere wrote:
If you go to equalizer website there is a place to enter your weights and it recommends a size for you.

I did go to this site and they recommend the 1200/12000 model. Hard to agree with this.
rode2nowhere
Explorer
Apr 22, 2013
If you go to equalizer website there is a place to enter your weights and it recommends a size for you.

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