JRscooby wrote:
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.
Yup that was my point. The hitch extension, is a very stout cheater pipe. And to not get the bonus points for looseness, I’d jam a large flat washer r 2 under the stinger on the extension and under the stinger on the hitch ball. I think they make contraptions for that. But I liked the $free.99 solution.
One fell out once but I think it was on a washboard road. So I started setting them tight with a tap from a hammer and flat screwdriver. Gave that whole setup the rigidity of a guy who just doubled down on the viagras (so I’m told…).
