Hitch extension
I just got a new truck and trailer. The tailgate hits the power tongue jack if I try to lower it while hooked up to the trailer. On my old set-up I turned the power jack and that gave me enough cle...
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TomG2 wrote:Airstreamer67 wrote:
"...It is important to note that the use of any hitch extension will reduce the capacity of your truck's hitch by 50 percent."
Wow. Not even a length mentioned in this absolute statement.
Probably written by a corporate lawyer. I use an extended shank sometimes, but am under fifty percent of hitch rating. Lightweight utility trailer.
longer shanks (i.e. drawbars) DO NOT HAVE any reduction in other towing specs unlike "hitch extensions" like the one you posted which are extensions of the receiver tube.
You like many that don't seem to understand these differences in these two items confuse the two and improperly try and impose the limits that might be applicable to one to the other which is EXTREMELY MISLEADING.
Larry
