Picked up our brand new Jayco Whitehawk 27 DSRL last Thursday in Bryan TX, and drove to Kerrville to camp.The dealer sold us and completely installed an "Equal-izer"WD hitch with sway control. When we got to the campground we had a lot of trouble un-hitching. The passenger side bar had too much turn on it and it was pushing sideways on the L-bracket. We could not budge it. The drivers side bar came off without a problem. We finally did get it off, with some advice from some fellow campers. But then when we went to hitch-up and leave it took us one hour to get it hitched up. It seems that the tv must be 100% parallel to the tt in order for the hitch to be hooked up or un-hooked up.Any advice, would be greatly appreciated.

This might be obvious, but did you raise your tongue back up after you attached to the ball to ease the tension?For example to un-hitch I have to run my tongue jack down, raise the trailer a couple inches (still attached to the ball), then take my bars off. Lower the tongue jack so I can release the ball lock, then run it back up to get it off the ball. The same would hold true in reverse to hitch it up.

I don't know the specifics of your hitch,when we used WD on a TT I used to hook up and pull forwards a couple feet to align things then chain up the bars.When unhooking if the TV was angled I'd adjust tension on the bars by raising or lowering the TT as needed. Once I had to use a jack all under the hitch of the TV as the TV was much lower and facing up hill with the back tires in a ditch.

davpratt wrote:We finally did get it off, with some advice from some fellow campers.If that "advice" didn't include first raising the trailer tongue (and rear of the truck) with the trailer still hitched to the truck using the tongue jack then you got lousy advice. This is mandatory and done correctly you won't have any issues at all removing or later reinstalling your Equal-i-zer's spring bars.

I have had the issues you are saying...one bar comes off fine the other not...Take the loose one off first raise or lower the jack until the other one loosens. uneven ground can be a pain

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Bucky_Badger
Explorer
Jul 06, 2016
I have had the issues you are saying...one bar comes off fine the other not...Take the loose one off first raise or lower the jack until the other one loosens. uneven ground can be a pain
SoundGuy
Explorer
Jul 06, 2016
duplicate post :S
SoundGuy
Explorer
Jul 06, 2016
davpratt wrote:
We finally did get it off, with some advice from some fellow campers.

If that "advice" didn't include first raising the trailer tongue (and rear of the truck) with the trailer still hitched to the truck using the tongue jack then you got lousy advice. This is mandatory and done correctly you won't have any issues at all removing or later reinstalling your Equal-i-zer's spring bars.
MudChucker
Explorer
Jul 06, 2016
I don't know the specifics of your hitch,when we used WD on a TT I used to hook up and pull forwards a couple feet to align things then chain up the bars.

When unhooking if the TV was angled I'd adjust tension on the bars by raising or lowering the TT as needed. Once I had to use a jack all under the hitch of the TV as the TV was much lower and facing up hill with the back tires in a ditch.
bosworthj
Explorer
Jul 06, 2016
This might be obvious, but did you raise your tongue back up after you attached to the ball to ease the tension?

For example to un-hitch I have to run my tongue jack down, raise the trailer a couple inches (still attached to the ball), then take my bars off. Lower the tongue jack so I can release the ball lock, then run it back up to get it off the ball. The same would hold true in reverse to hitch it up.

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