denk wrote:
Does anyone have MH with a hitch that is 24 inches high?
My recently purchased '09 Bounder is about 24 inches to the center point of the receiver. OTOH, that's an unloaded vehicle (empty holding tanks, near-empty water tank, almost no gear; maybe 150 pounds at most, and less than 1/4 tank of gas), and people say they can settle substantially when loaded. Several people in other threads have said they have two drop receivers: one for empty, one for full. One guy said his empty receiver was 10 inch drop, and his full receiver was only 4 inch drop. Wow!
I will measure mine again with a full tank of gas, full tank of water, all three kids, my dad, some more gear, and my wife if she's available :) I plan to tow my '09 Odyssey, and Blue Ox says the tab height is 14.5 inches. That'd be a 10-inch drop as it sits right now, but I expect it to be less with the MH road-ready. Maybe 8. Maybe even 6. Probably not 4, but who knows?
The Blue Ox drops all seem rated at 5K pounds. Since my Odyssey is in the 4500 - 4600 range, I'm probably going to go with a Roadmaster drop receiver, since they are rated at 10K pounds and I believe in over-engineering things :)
