Equalizer Hitch Question
Installed new equalizer hitch with sway control yesterday. Coming home when making street turns would hear popping noise. This is first bumper pull trailer so am not familiar with noises to expect ,...
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RinconVTR wrote:For the 4-Point Equal-I-zer hitch, the majority of the sway-resisting torque is generated at the contact surfaces between the socket and hitch head.
Do not lube the bars at the L brackets as this IS your sway control for this WDH design. Decrease friction at the L brackets, decrease sway control. The two are directly related.
The friction force generated at the L-brackets is a relatively small amount.
If an Equal-I-zer WD bar is loaded to 1000#, and the bar/bracket contact surface is un-lubricated (dry), the friction force might be around 600#.
For comparison, a single friction bar sway control is factory-adjusted to generate a friction force of about 1100#.
That means two Equal-I-zer WD bars in contact with L-brackets could generate only about as much sway-resisting friction force as could a single friction bar sway control.
If there were no rotational friction generated at the socket/head contacts of the 4-Point Sway Control,
the 4-Point Sway Control would perform about the same as the E2 2-Point Sway Control.
Ron
