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Grit dog wrote:
Regarding the universal 3500lb rating. Pffft. Towed an (estimated) 6500-7klb trailer with no lack of tongue weight from here to Anchorage during mud season, where all the frost heaves were still very much at their max. 18” “3500lb” extension hanging off a factory 2” receiver. Never questioned it and it never gave any problems.
I would be surprised if anybody ever had a failure of the extension itself. After all, to bend a wire you need to hold one side of bend, put force on the other. Any extension will increase the force applied to hitch. If hitch, mounting, and even vehicle, is not designed to absorb that force, something gives.
Now the OP wants to add extra points for looseness, plus a 300+ hammer beating on the hitch and mounting plus do it full time.
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