Video Transcript for Review of Weigh Safe Weight Distribution Hitch - WD With Sway Control - WS24RR

Hello everybody, Steve here with etrailer.com. Today we're looking at our Weigh Safe True Tow Weight Distribution set up with a two inch shank with a eight inch drop or eight and a half inch rise rated to 18,500 pounds gross towing weight. And folks, as you probably already know, weight distribution will give you a smooth even and even a safe ride while you're towing by balancing out your load and keeping everything straight. Now, with this Weigh Safe Kit, having the scale built in here, it's gonna make balancing your load even easier and we don't have to worry about poor handling, you're gonna correct the sway you from passing semis, harsh crosswinds, those kind of things, using both tilting heads here and friction on the bars themselves. Now you do, again, get the built-in scale, so that's gonna make it easy to read your tongue weight scale. Now what you're gonna do is have a sweet spot of about 10 to 15% of your total gross trailer weight and then you'll adjust your load accordingly based on your tongue weight and potentially the head screw here.

So that's as simple as using your lift tool here that has a built-in wrench on it and then you'll be able to either go in or out, forward or reverse, whichever you wanna word it, to then get that head tilt to the proper angle and the proper weight as well. Now, that's gonna give you a peace of mind on your journey when you're towing, and some other key features while we're over here on this end, you get a built-in lock with this with two keys that are tubular shape versus flat. So, in my opinion, it's just a lot more better, it's not gonna be easily pickable, those kind of things and this is a stainless steel hitch lock along with the stainless steel hitch ball. They're both gonna be rust proof and built to last. This hitch ball is a two and five 16 inch.

The tongue weight's rated at 1,850 pounds. Again, the max towing weight, our gross towing weight is 1,850. Now this whole system is V5 and J684 certified for your safety. Now, everything as you can see is a nice black powder coat finished on it, it's heavy duty steel, it's been made to withstand the elements. Now, coming over here, you've got your lift brackets that mount onto your trailer frame.

Now, you want those to be from the center of the ball down to the side of your frame, between 27 and 32 inches per the manufacturer's instructions. Now, that being said, as far as the heighth, they're gonna fit six inch heighth trailer frames. We do offer a kit sold separately that would give you an eight inch on the brackets themselves. Again, that bracket only is sold separately. You're gonna get the six inch ones with the kit.

Now, again, this shank has an eight inch drop or a heighth of eight and a half inches if you flip it over and use it in the rise position. Now folks, this whole kit here is a very nice kit, again, from Weigh Safe If you've never used weight distribution before, I highly recommend you watch some of our other videos on our website here, read the literature. You're gonna get a QR code here on this product from Weigh Safe, that's gonna give you access to their instructions, their app. With that app you can download and put in your trailer weight, measurements, those kind of thing and it's gonna give you a pretty good area of where you wanna start as far as that sweet spot, if you will, on your tongue weight. So check into that, make sure you're reading that thoroughly. The lift tool here, again, you're gonna be lifting these bars up in place and keep in mind, a lot of this stuff's gonna have spring tension on it. So read the instructions, make sure you're doing it safely and again, everything here is powder coated, it's gonna last a long time for you. Well folks, that's gonna wrap it up. Just a quick look today together at our Weigh Safe True Tow Weight Distribution. Again, the two inch shank with an eight inch drop. I'm Steven, as always, stay safe while you're towing.