Grit dog wrote:
IMO, don’t screw up your boat trailer unless you plan on keeping it forever.
It’s a solution with limitations even for you and will not be desirable to most buyers.
If you don’t trust your hitch with the required length of extension bar and don’t want to shell out for a super hitch, just get a heavy 2.5” receiver and a solid bar extension.
$300-400 will get you everything you need.
FWIW, I’ve been towing a 6000lb + boat/trailer for years on the OE receiver on the 07 Dodge with more than 500lbs tongue weight. Idk what it weighs but 2 men can’t lift the tongue of the trailer up.
That's a fair point. Solving the boat trailer would have made it less desirable for someone else though I already did that by putting electric brakes on it. Also, modifying the tongue of the trailer doesn't do anything if we someday buy another trailer or another boat which is certainly something we look at as I would like a fishing boat for some of the rivers. The tongue weight concern was mostly with it becoming too low causing sway in the trailer. There would have been little we could do to fix it at that point.
To somewhat close out this thread for those that look.
I ordered Hellwig 3500LP springs and their swaybar to give some lift and stability to the rear end.
I found a supertruss locally used for $330 which is now sitting in my garage. My hitch is a 2" hitch so unless I find an extension that exceeds the 6100 lbs, I'll bight the bullet and add a superhitch to the back of the truck.
All told, this $3100 camper will cost me $5500-$6000 after upgrades to the truck, additions to the camper, etc. I still haven't decided on the final tiedown system. I'm hoping to find a torqlift system used locally. I missed one last week.
