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Supercharged111's avatar
Jul 26, 2018

Anyone Else Have Trouble With WD Hitches?

I bought a 1500/15k Curt Hitch that is stretched and deformed after only a few uses. I run a 42" Supertruss and pull a trailer that has 950# of tongue weight and weighs 8500-9000#. I contacted etrailer who contacted Curt and Curt isn't standing behind the hitch because of the camper. Needless to say I'm furious. This is no different than putting this same hitch behind a motorhome. Has anyone else had this problem when towing behind a TC?
  • I have pics, but no way to attach or host since Photobucket went full ******. Any suggestions? I agree the hitch at the back should not care. The only Curt part is the one the ball and bars go into for whoever was confused. There's a Torklift double receiver bolted to the frame of the truck. I was hoping to cheat with the hitch, but with the tall head, 2 provided factory washers, and 4 links of preload bringing the bars parallel with the frame of the trailer the front had still lifted. I didn't want to overcrank the hitch, so I stopped there but these are 1500# bars so they are stiffer than the 1000# bars on the hitch married to my 1500 truck.
  • I watch Torklift video how the supertruss bends and twists during driving.
    It has to affect the hitch this way or the other, so Curt might have a case here.
    Still without pictures we are whining about something we have never seen.
  • The WD hitch doesn't know whether it is mounted 90" behind the axle on a Supertruss or 90" behind the axle on an extended chassis rig like a long class C.

    As others have said, call Curt directly.

    Please post up some good photos showing that stretched and deformed Curt hitch.
  • There is math to show the answer, but I don't know it.
    Levers. I think this is how you would look at this.
    1) the folcrum is the rear axle of the truck.
    2) I expect the rear of the hitch is 48" behind the axle. so this lever is 48".
    3) The system is rated to hold 1500 lbs at the end of the 48" lever (hitch)
    4) extend this lever to 90".

    Now if you hang 950 lbs of weight on end of new lever length, would the multiplayer mean you really put 1900lbs of weight on the original 48" lever?

    But then throw in weight distribution hitch, which is trying to put spring load into this lever to force load back to other side of fulcrum.

    not sure.
  • Are you trying to distribute the weight of the camper in addition to the weight of the trailer tongue? That is, how are you adjusting the hitch?

    If you are going for unhitched AND unloaded ride height, you're severely overloading the WD hitch.
  • I have been running a cheap Harbor Freight WDH with L-shaped spring bars in my SuperTruss since 2012 with no problems and probably put 7500 miles on it each year. My 20' enclosed trailer weighs 6000-8000 lbs based on what is inside but my tongue weight is always close to 1000 lbs since I have 300 lbs of batteries in a PowerArmor box on the tongue. What kind of WDH hitch did you get from Curt and where is it wearing?
  • Do you have any pictures of the stretched and deformed and/or the setup?..Needless to say your going to need some..A true class 5 hitch shouldn't do what you described.
  • How are you using a supertruss in a single Curt receiver ? Perhaps a little more info is needed .
  • Contact Curt directly. There's no need to tell them anything about the hitch extension. Towing with an extension is irrelevant to the situation anyway.