What do ya call it ?

Huntindog wrote:

LarryJM wrote:
BTW I tighten my hitch vise before installing my bars since the movement that I'm really interested in is the side to side (cause of what I call freeway tail wiggle) and in and out (what I and others have described as the "clunking" during start/stop) and not the up and down so the WDH bars have little effect in those two planes of movement.

That being the case, I believe it would make nore sense to tighten the vise AFTER the bars are tensioned, and the up/down slop removed. Why make the job you are trying to accomplish harder by making the vise work against the the bars.

Again I'm not interested that much in the up/down which with the WDH bars engaged the "Hitch Vice" has little to no effect (i.e. the least effectiveness in that plane of possible movement) and that movement is not what is causing either the "freeway wiggle" or the "Clunk" when stopping/starting. Also, I install the "Hitch Vise" when I install my drawbar and simply make securing it part of my hitch head/drawbar installation routine.

In the end IMO the "Hitch Vise" is the one effective alternative over the many, many potential alternative solutions to the issue such as welding nuts to the receiver and using bolts tightened against the drawbar, running additional beading around the receiver opening to reduce the drawbar to receiver clearance and such things as the "J" pins that go into an extra hole in the receiver and IMO it sure beats what I did in the 20+ years before which was to pound some angle iron wedges ground down to an edge that went into two sides of the receiver/drawbar interface secured with duct tape so they would not fall out if they loosened up over time. What I actually used previously was a couple of bed frame spring to end board angle iron pieces since they were long on one side and about the right size width wise and didn't have too large of an angled section along with the fact I has some laying around so it was free.

Larry