Evenly spreads your tongue weight among the axles of both your tow vehicle and trailer for a smooth, controlled ride. Includes a shank with a 7" drop (or a 10-1/2" rise). Hitch ball sold separately.
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Pro Tip: Before you invest in a weight distribution hitch, make sure your cargo is evenly loaded in your trailer to keep the weight balanced. If you still have a hard time even after balancing your tongue weight, a weight distribution hitch should help.
People often conflate sway control with weight distribution. It's understandable because most weight distribution systems on the market today do solve issues with sway.
This system will give you weight distribution only. It doesn't have any sway control built in. But if you find that you need sway control later, it's super-easy to upgrade by adding on bar-style friction sway control (17200 - sold separately). This option allows you to easily dial in the amount of tension with the turn of a handle. This adjustability is nice (even if it takes you a few trips to get it just right), but it doesn't play well with surge-type actuators, and it will have to be removed when backing up and any time you tow on wet or slippery roads.
Easy Head Tilt Adjustment
Traditionally, weight distribution systems have utilized a washer-style setup to set the right pitch at the head to help distribute your tongue weight properly. While this method allows you to fine-tune the setup at the time of installation, it requires some patience. It's time consuming because you'll have to take the head unit apart, adjust the number of washers, maybe check the positions of your brackets, and then check to see if your ride is level. If it's not, you'll have to do it all over again until it is. Not to mention that you might have to repeat this process if your tongue weight changes or if you swap out your tow vehicle.
This Curt system, however, only has 5 preset adjustment points to choose from, letting you quickly and conveniently achieve the proper tilt without ever needing to disassemble the head or keep track of washers. To fine-tune the system, simply start out in Position 1, which is the lowest head tilt setting. This setting applies the least amount of tension to the spring bars. As you continue to adjust the head tilt, more tension will be applied to the spring bars. Work through the positions in order until the correct tilt setting is determined. Once your tow vehicle is level, use the oval-shaped washers in conjunction with the shank bolts to secure the head to the shank in the desired position.
Your tongue weight is the first thing you need to know when figuring out which weight distribution system you need. Most people think that if they get the highest-rated system possible, it'll be smooth sailing. But actually, this will create a rigid ride and a bouncing trailer. On the other hand, if the system isn't strong enough, it won't be able to distribute the weight properly, making it virtually useless.
Once you know your trailer's tongue weight, add it to the weight of the cargo behind the rear axle of your tow vehicle. Then just choose a weight distribution system rated for that combined tongue weight.
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Great product.
Packaging this to survive the ups trip is a non winning battle. Arrived fine but the shear weight and shape of the items in the box and outer box is no match for the ups torture test
Easy to use and works great
Works as expected...great value!!!
Arrived quickly, went together easily, especially considering this was my first time doing such a task. Got a few hundred miles on the rig at this point, all is well, would purchase again.
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I got this because it was 30 lbs lighter than the others, works great on the dodge grand caravan and pop up camper.
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Highly successful in keeping the trailer straight when towing.
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