Dealer gave me wrong equal-I-zer size?

The hitch head is the same for most kits. The main differences are the bar size and the ball capacity. If the ball supports a higher weight, you can should be able to just swap bars out, if it is even necessary.

sgip2000 wrote:
The hitch head is the same for most kits.

Not for the Equal-i-zer ... if the OP moves up to 1000 lb spring bars he has to change the head as well.

SoundGuy wrote:

sgip2000 wrote:
The hitch head is the same for most kits.

Not for the Equal-i-zer ... if the OP moves up to 1000 lb spring bars he has to change the head as well.

Do you think I need to move up?

IMO, you’re fine. Jayco lists unloaded hitch weight at 365#. It’s a lightweight trailer, and I would bet equal-I-zer over-engineered a bit. I think your dealer did good. Hook up, and have fun. They’re great hitches.

nohurry wrote:
IMO, you’re fine. Jayco lists unloaded hitch weight at 365#. It’s a lightweight trailer, and I would bet equal-I-zer over-engineered a bit.

Disagree. The OP's 2015 X23B offers a mere 1045 lbs CCC even before anything including a battery is added to the trailer. With a GVWR of just 4950 lbs his challenge will be to keep the trailer's GVW, loaded & ready to camp, within that 4950 lb limit. At an average 13% gross tongue weight to gross trailer weight he could easily see this trailer's gross tongue weight average in the 650 lb to 700 lb range. To answer the OP's question - yeah, I'd move up to 1000 lb spring bars but that will require a new head as well.

SoundGuy wrote:

nohurry wrote:
IMO, you’re fine. Jayco lists unloaded hitch weight at 365#. It’s a lightweight trailer, and I would bet equal-I-zer over-engineered a bit.

Disagree. The OP's 2015 X23B offers a mere 1045 lbs CCC even before anything including a battery is added to the trailer. With a GVWR of just 4950 lbs his challenge will be to keep the trailer's GVW, loaded & ready to camp, within that 4950 lb limit. At an average 13% gross tongue weight to gross trailer weight he could easily see this trailer's gross tongue weight average in the 650 lb to 700 lb range. To answer the OP's question - yeah, I'd move up to 1000 lb spring bars but that will require a new head as well.

I would hope the dealer would switch out the whole system, as they didn’t ask what I wanted. I’ll call them tomorrow.

I don't have the Equal-i-zer setup, but I did get the #1000 bar EAZ-Lift setup (bar and chain setup (and the hitch head is actually rated for #1400 TW and #14,000 trailer weight) when I bought my #5000 GVWR TT some 16 years ago..

Still using the same setup to this day and it works great!

I've got some #650 TW on my rig and I weigh every bit of that #5000 GVWR.

With the bar/chain setup, I can adjust the tension at will, so that might be the difference in the setups??

Pretty sure I'm not using all "#1000" capacity of those bars with the tension I put on them.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Mitch

My thinking is the dealer is working on something shy of the maximum trailer weight as what you’ll be towing. If you’re at 4,500 lbs with a 12.5% tongue weight that’s 567.5 lbs. If you go to 1,000 lbs they may be way to stiff for the actual load.

1000 bars would be too stiff in my opinion, keep what you have. Even if you loaded the trailer to absolute maximum, you would only have a few pounds less weight transfer than what might be ideal.

600 lb bars is probably correct. You are better off using 80 to 100% of the bars spring rate than if you had 1000 lb bars and used 40 to 50%. The more spring rate used as a percentage with an Equalizer brand hitch, the more anti sway control it has by design as its based on the amount of friction at both the head and rail bracket, the more spring rate, the more friction. The 23B also has, or had, only a 3" tube for the A frame members, which might not be the best to use a heavier bar with.

Unfortunatly Equalizer does not have an 800 # bar option and you're at the border between the 600 and 1000#. By going to 1000# bars you might end up with one rough riding SOB by the time you dial in enough rate to make the sway control effective.

Not all dealers happen to be morons when it comes to setting up a WDH. Chances are the dealer, since he is a Jayco dealer and an Equalizer dealer, has set up more than one X23B before and knows a little more than us experts here on that specific application. Especially when taking into account the setup will be completely different from tow vehicle to tow vehicle with the same trailer.

The ultimate question would be "Did the hitch restore the front ride height of the tow vehicle when adjusted to Equalizers specs, and how does it tow and feel when loaded for use"? If all is good, why would you change?