Weight Distribution bar - using a pipe ... ?

myredracer wrote:
An appropriate question would be - what do the various manufacturers say to do?

The following are manufacturers instructions for some of the WDHs out there, and in similar wording, they all say to use the lift bar/handle and to release (not remove) tension on the spring bars using the tongue jack.

WHAT:h the two direct quotes say to release which is defined as "REMOVING" :S so again you can read things however you want, but it's clear to me what it says. I view the lifting bars for hitches like the Reese only to help in placing the chain bracket in place since it doesn't have a handle built into the bracket. In some unusual cases it might be needed to actually provide some real lift or release, but that would or should IMO be the exception and not the rule. The Equal-i-zer because of it's design already doesn't need anything additional under normal use.

I think one needs to re read how this discussion started and that was the tongue jack was not to be used to engage the WDH bars which I have I think disproven and now those naysayers are just trying to come up with cases where these bars are actually needed to engage or disengage the system and somehow implying that is normal which I say is not.

Larry