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This steel clamp and U-bolt installs on your 2" hitch receiver to stabilize your hitch-mounted accessories. Simply hook the clamp over the lip of your hitch and secure the U-bolt around your accessory using the included nuts to prevent shifting.
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Zach: Hey, everybody. Zach here at etrailer.com. Today we're going to be taking a look at the Brophy U-Bolt Stabilizer. This is going to be an anti-rattle device. What it does is it takes all that shake and play all that movement out of your assessory. I think it personally shines best with cargo carriers.
Cargo carriers are a great way to get a bunch of extra stuff on your trip but one thing they have an issue with is when you get that weight back there, they're not the most stable thing. So they're moving around,they're going to hold your stuff just fine but you can hear that movement, you can see it, it's just a little unnerving.So what this does is this takes a standard cargo carrier we have here, I have a couple of hundred pounds back here and it just makes it a nice stiff right. Now you can see right there, I'm lifting up and I'm not getting much play when this isn't in place. This cargo carrier moves all around. Now the one thing with this style is it doesn't really take out all the side to side.
Now it's shifting a little bit there but it's tightened down where it's holding it in place for the most part.I think that's where the threaded hitch pin style works best. Those do a really good job of keeping the side to side movement down. But I would rather take out that up and down movement personally, because this still does a good job of keeping that side to side play at a minimum. So you can see this as a pretty simple design. It's essentially a steel plate that sits on top.
And then we have a U-bolt that comes up underneath. And what this does is the sandwiches our accessory into our hitch.So it holds it all together. It gives us a nice tight fit. It's pretty easy to put on. It can sometimes be a little difficult when it comes to clearance because you do have to tighten down these nuts.
And that's where I think the hitch pin style where it's just a threaded bolt it goes through. That can be a little bit easier because usually have a little bit more clearance down here to work with but I think this is a really effective way to take all that play out of our accessory.Another thing to keep in mind if you do like that bolt style is you have to have a hollow shank accessory, so you can see here, there's nothing in the shank of this ball Mount. So we can put that device on the inside and put that bolt through. A lot of accessories are solid so you can't put anything in there. And that's where this U-bolt design works. And the cool thing about the U-bolt style is, it works with both styles, whether it's a hollow shank or solid steel, it doesn't matter as long as there's nothing to interfere where you're attaching that to it will work. So you could in theory, use both to eliminate the side to side and the up and down. But I think that this one does a really good job of definitely eliminating the up and down but I think it does a pretty good job of cutting out that side to side action as well.And to cut down on resting corrosion, it has a black powder coat finish on it to keep that at day and then you also have that galvanized U-bolt as well. So to get this installed, first thing we're going to do is, I'm going to lay my top bracket like this. So the part that's pointing down needs to be touching the accessory. And then I'm going to take this U-bolt and I'm going to go up from underneath my hitch and get that lined up with the holes in that plate. And then I'm going to take my lock nuts and get those started so that we can take a 14 millimeter wrench and we can start tightening this down.I think that if you have the ability to use a socket wrench, you should go that route. I don't have the clearance here because of this bumper. So I'm just going to be using a wrench, just going to take a little bit of time but it's definitely going to be worth it. When we get this tightened down, you can see we're starting to get that where it's not moving around, getting a nice tight fit. I don't think you need to really be super aggressive with getting this tightened down but you definitely want it tight. So you eliminate that movement in your shank there.Overall I'm pretty impressed by this. Now this isn't going to take away all of the movement and all the shake and play but just here on this cargo carrier today, it reduced it dramatically. It takes a good amount of effort to get that, to move around up and down. Now, there is still a little bit of side to side but it's not near as noisy. It takes quite a bit more effort to get that, to move around. So I think this is a really good way to go. If you're looking to cut down some of that noise and movement but that's going to do it for our look at the Brophy U-Bolt Stabilizer.
Customer Satisfaction Score:
96% were satisfied with this product
4% of customers were not satisfied
Ratings & Reviews

Will H.
11/18/2017
still a happy camper!

Henry C.
9/12/2015
Great Product even a year later it still works as designed and anyone with a problem simply can not screw nuts and bolts together correctly!!!

Russ
3/2/2023
Unit is performing as designed and shows no signs of fatigue. This clamp works great for both my trailers.

Richard B.
8/15/2016
Still working great

Bernie Z.
5/30/2018
I still like them

Walker
9/12/2017
Still working to stop the rattling however someone else owns it because it would not come off the truck. Rusted solid. Would have been fine had it been oiled or taken off regularly

Johnl
1/18/2018
Still using. Works well.

William
2/12/2024
This product does what it was designed to do, it stops the rattling of the hitch and also helps create a good ground to the trailer. I have had this product for one year.
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Bong
12/24/2021
Been using it often with my dirtbike carrier and my dirtbike. No wobble or movement. Happy with the product.