WD Needed?
So my wife and I became camper people about a month after I purchased my 2104 Regular Cab Silverado. Our 'yellow sticker' camper weight is 7800 so even loaded I was well withing my trucks specificati...
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hbrady wrote:
So I was checking out my hitch receiver last night and it's a class V with 2.5'' opening. All my hitches and my buddy's WD hitch (I borrow) are all 2''. Looks like another expense :(
I purchased a Curt brand drop shank with a 2.5 inch (CURT Weight Distribution Shank #17128) for the truck and it reduced to 2" to bolt my receiver head too. I bolted a Draw Tite head to it. I think the standard hole spacing is 1-1/4". I am glad to hear you decided to go with WD hitch. I also fully recommend a friction sway control to go with the WD hitch. Though your basic WD hitch is "not really for sway", they can go a long way to preventing sway if you were to come across a large dip in the road and it started the teeter-totter action going with your tow vehicle and trailer. I am not in the camp that tow's trailer without one but it seems there are way more people that tow this way then I ever would have imagined. Every now and then I will hook everything up on mine and forget to tighten the friction sway control and I will get about 10 miles down the road and the trailer feels just the teeniest bit wiggley back there. Pull over tighten it and smooth as glass!
