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burningman
Jul 31, 2018Explorer II
One of my stretched trailer tongues is on a flatbed car/equipment trailer with a big toolbox across the front. The other is on a utility trailer made from a pickup truck bed.
If yours hits your camper when cornering, you didn’t stretch it enough.
One other modification you need to do is relocating the tongue jack.
Then it’s goodbye heavy hitch extension you have to install and remove every time you load your camper, goodbye reduced tow rating, and hello better weight transfer and general physics. Would you want to use a hitch extension if your camper wasn’t on?
Well, that’s why you know this tows better.
It’s a little harder to hitch because you have to crawl under to do the latch but that’s less a pain than putting on and taking off an extension.
If yours hits your camper when cornering, you didn’t stretch it enough.
One other modification you need to do is relocating the tongue jack.
Then it’s goodbye heavy hitch extension you have to install and remove every time you load your camper, goodbye reduced tow rating, and hello better weight transfer and general physics. Would you want to use a hitch extension if your camper wasn’t on?
Well, that’s why you know this tows better.
It’s a little harder to hitch because you have to crawl under to do the latch but that’s less a pain than putting on and taking off an extension.
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