Help on re-adjusting Equal-i-zer WD hitch
Hi, I recently purchase a used Sportsmen 16 feet trailer and the former owner let me his Equal-i-zer brand weight distribution hitch. It's the 600 TW / 6K GVWR model. The former owner use it to tow th...
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"I understand that more strength you put on the torsion bars, the higher will be the weight transfer to the front? Actually the torsion bars are very easy to slide on the L-brackets (by hand, no pry bar needed), so that's probably an indication than the weight transfert is too light right now?"
That is correct. The more tension on the bars transfers more weight. You can accomplish this via tilting the hitch head (adding or subtracting washers), and by raising or lowereing the L brackets. The preferred method is by tilting the hitch head once you have the L brackets set so the bars ride flat on them.
If you can put the bars on by hand, then you do not have any, or very little, WD going on. You should not be able to do that without lifting up the back of the truck while it is coupled to the trailer. This is the preferred method of hooking up. You want to try to get a shallow inverted V shape between the truck and trailer by using the tongue jack to raise them both together. Doing this points the ends of the bars upwards which makes it easy to slide the bars onto the L brackets and then you lower the tongue back down and raise the tongue jack all the way up. Unhooking is just the reverse.
You should have received a tool that can be used to pry the bars onto the L brackets but that is often not necessary if you use the tongue jack to raise the coupled trailer and truck together up high enough to slide the bars on. This is one reason many people decide to purchase an electric tongue jack.:W
Barney
That is correct. The more tension on the bars transfers more weight. You can accomplish this via tilting the hitch head (adding or subtracting washers), and by raising or lowereing the L brackets. The preferred method is by tilting the hitch head once you have the L brackets set so the bars ride flat on them.
If you can put the bars on by hand, then you do not have any, or very little, WD going on. You should not be able to do that without lifting up the back of the truck while it is coupled to the trailer. This is the preferred method of hooking up. You want to try to get a shallow inverted V shape between the truck and trailer by using the tongue jack to raise them both together. Doing this points the ends of the bars upwards which makes it easy to slide the bars onto the L brackets and then you lower the tongue back down and raise the tongue jack all the way up. Unhooking is just the reverse.
You should have received a tool that can be used to pry the bars onto the L brackets but that is often not necessary if you use the tongue jack to raise the coupled trailer and truck together up high enough to slide the bars on. This is one reason many people decide to purchase an electric tongue jack.:W
Barney
