I NEED HELP ASAP

Huntindog wrote:

Francesca Knowles wrote:

Huntindog wrote:

Francesca Knowles wrote:
A trailer can go quite a ways before it jolts off the ball, especially if you've got weight distribution and/or sway bars hooked up too.

If WD is hooked up it is impossible for the hitch to come off the ball.

Try this for yourself to see.
Hookup everything. The unlatch the hitch. Now use the tongue jack to try to lift it off the ball.
It can't be done.

As for W/D being some kind of protectant against decoupling, I call bushwa. The system has plenty to do without having to retain the ball on the coupler to boot. I said that it would likely delay a decoupling, but it certainly can't be depended upon to prevent such an event. There are tremendous forces involved, and W/D add-ons are not designed to take up the work of the coupler as well as their own.

It is not "impossible" for decoupling to occur in the presence of a W/D system.

It's NO bushwa. Why don't you do as I suggested and try it to see for yourself? Then report back your findings.:B

Your suggestion is to conduct a "test" while parked. It doesn't account for the tremendous forces/variables of travel. To presume that W/D is some sort of fallback guarantee that at highway speeds and on all roads a coupler will stay on the ball even if unlatched is ridiculous.

But certainly you bring up an important point:

Truehitch of coupler-to-ball should be checked for BEFORE hooking up WD and/or sway control.