Advice on wdh
My wife and I recently traded our Forest River Vibe 6504 for a Coachmen Freedom Express 236 BHS. The dealer installed our wdh onto our new tt. It is an E2 600tw,6000gvw trunion hitch.The hitch weight...
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Lance72 wrote:
I did a lot of reading and research on WDH and sway control. Blue Ox certainly seems like a great product but the price was extremely high. Also the bars must be sized correctly for the sway prevention to work. Where you have friction to reduce sway on the E2, Blue Ox uses deflection in the bars to reduce sway. Basically the bars fight each other and the result is both bars maintain the same amount of deflection (in a perfect world). My RV dealer insisted that 1000# bars were just fine for my 450# TW. He was wrong. I went with an Eaz WDH and 600# bars w/ a Reese friction arm. Half the price.
btw. you are over the limit. as a rule i never exceed the name plate data on anything.
The Sway Pro is a very good hitch, and worth the money for its easy set up, removal, and clean bars. Many more expensive hitches on the market than the Sway Pro.
As for your dealer, 1,000 lb bars were probably what he had in stock, as Blue Ox makes bars from 350 to 2,000 lbs. I wouldn't trust a dealer that told me I had to use 1,000 lb bars with 450 lb tw.
Glad your happy with what you got.
