weight distribution/sway or not
TV is a 2014 Tahoe with HD tow package, 8,000 lbs tow rating, pulling a flagstaff microlite 23' empty weight is 3630, been told I do not need a weight distribution/sway bar, would like to other opinio...
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myredracer wrote:
I thought there was one that you can't back up with and thought it was the Centerline. Maybe it's another one or it was that you had to be in a straight line with the Centerline?
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I believe the thing you are thinking about is that in order to unhook and remove the WD bars with the Husky Centerline hitch your truck/trailer would need to be pretty much in a straight line with that hitch. The reason is that there are compression washers in the bar sockets/hitch head that always try to keep the bars in a straight ahead position. This is what makes the hitch resist sway. However, that same pressure that keeps the bars in the straight ahead position also make it hard to move them away from the A frame for removal off the L shaped brackets if the truck/trailer are not lined up straight.
As far as I know, this is the only factor in that hitch that could be problematic in use. It certainly has nothing to do with backing up though. The only backing cautions that I am aware of concern the use of the common friction sway control bars.
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