solutions for sloppy hitch?
Hi, cheapskate here - I got what I paid for. Bought a $200 adjustable class V drop hitch, rather than one of those fancy $600-1000 machined ones.
Of course, being cheap, the fitment is total carp. It slops up and down a good 1/2" or so, and side to side almost as much.
All this slop makes towing a bit unnerving, there's a lot of banging during stops and starts, as well as on the stronger bumps. The first few times it was banging so hard I thought I hit something. After pulling over a few times, I realized it's just banging and not collisions.
Brians Mobile1 on youtubes advocates grinding the paint off the shank and welding some X's on all four sides, and then grinding those X's until it's a very snug fit in the receiver. I guess that would work, but I hate to destroy the baked on coating just yet, oh and I don't have a welder.
e-trailer is happy to sell me anti-rattle devices to go with my rattle prone hitch, but honestly, they all look like junk to me.
So what's the fix, other than spending $600-1000 on a machined ball mount?
Of course, being cheap, the fitment is total carp. It slops up and down a good 1/2" or so, and side to side almost as much.
All this slop makes towing a bit unnerving, there's a lot of banging during stops and starts, as well as on the stronger bumps. The first few times it was banging so hard I thought I hit something. After pulling over a few times, I realized it's just banging and not collisions.
Brians Mobile1 on youtubes advocates grinding the paint off the shank and welding some X's on all four sides, and then grinding those X's until it's a very snug fit in the receiver. I guess that would work, but I hate to destroy the baked on coating just yet, oh and I don't have a welder.
e-trailer is happy to sell me anti-rattle devices to go with my rattle prone hitch, but honestly, they all look like junk to me.
So what's the fix, other than spending $600-1000 on a machined ball mount?
