SpeakEasy wrote:
Huntindog wrote:
SpeakEasy wrote:
troubledwaters wrote:
You can get a longer shank for your ball mount, whichever way is cheaper.
Like most things, this idea has "legs." If you extend your shank it will have an impact on your towing capacity. If you're anywhere near your limits now, you need to check into this before you do it.
-Speak
Not if you are using WD.
Read what Ron Gratz had to say back in 2010:
Ron Gratz
OK. I checked out what Ron Gratz had to say. I'll admit that I didn't understand much of it. I'm not even a "first year engineering student" let alone a second-year one.
However. Look at what I said. I said the extender would "have an impact." I believe that's true, even after having read through Gratz's material. I'm not sure what the impact would be - increase or decrease or by how much. But I still maintain it is something to consider if you're going to extend your shank. If I were going that route I'd work on understanding the physics of what I was doing.
-Speak
Ron tells you what the impact will be--less force on the receiver.
Ron Gratz wrote:
The second year engineering student would conclude using the extension, with WD, results in less "stress on the hitch attachment points and truck frame".
He's a mechanical engineer, and he shows his work, so I'll take his word for it.
