High-performance system is designed to offer the best in weight distribution with an easy-to-adjust, forged head; a raised ball platform; and flexible, powder coated steel, round spring bars. Adjustable shank included. Hitch ball sold separately.
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Create a stable ride for your tow vehicle and trailer with a weight-distribution hitch. Adding spring bars to your towing system applies leverage, which transfers the load that is pushing down on the rear of your vehicle to all the axles on both your tow vehicle and your trailer, resulting in an even distribution of weight throughout. The result is a smooth, level ride, as well as the ability to tow the maximum capacity of your hitch.
The tongue weight rating is the most important factor in determining which size weight-distribution system you should use. If the bars of the system you choose are rated too high for your setup, they will create a rigid ride, which can result in a bouncing trailer. If, on the other hand, the bars are not rated high enough, the system will be unable to properly distribute the weight, rendering it virtually useless.
To determine the proper weight rating for a weight-distribution system, you must first determine your trailer's tongue weight. Then add to that the weight of the cargo behind the rear axle of your tow vehicle. These two measurements make up the tongue weight rating for a weight-distribution system.
The easy-to-use, block-style washer on the Reese system makes adjusting the tilt of the weight-distribution head a snap. This uniquely shaped washer can be rotated and positioned between blocks on the weight-distribution head for simple, secure positioning. And the numbered sides provide reference points should you need to adjust your system between different tow vehicles. This is a huge improvement over the standard pin-and-washer method, which involves piling washers - one on top of another - onto a difficult-to-access pin to obtain the desired tilt.
The round spring bars of this system slide up into the weight-distribution head and secure with pins for quick, easy installation. With a tapered design and hot rolled steel construction, these bars offer superior flex, ensuring a smooth, controlled ride for both your tow vehicle and your trailer. In addition, these specially designed bars have rounded, hooked ends, making them the only kind of spring bars that can function with Reese's active-style, dual-cam sway control (sold separately).
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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, we're going to be installing Reese's Weight Distribution System, part number RP67509. This weight distribution system is going to take weight off your rear axle and reposition it evenly onto your front axle. This'll help restore breaking and handling performance that was lost due to the load. Additionally, it'll help level out your headlights. With that extra weight on the back, it tilts your headlights up, reducing visibility at night. This will also help increase that nighttime driving safety.Also, this is going to return your vehicle back to its normal alignment.
This is going to help make your tire wear not be as bad with the load on the back, and it's also going to return some of that handling performance. Leveling out your trailer's also going to put the load of your trailer evenly on both axles. This kit's going to include a drop or rise so you can set up the height of your vehicle with the height of your trailer.The round bars can easily be inserted or removed in the opening here using the alignment tab. This is what allows tension to be distributed on your trailer frame to your hitch. This system's designed to work with a two-inch by two-inch receiver.
This system gives you an 800-pound tongue weight and a 10,000-pound gross towing capacity. This system comes with a couple ways to fine-tune it to your trailer. Depending on the weight and how much you need to distribute the load, you can adjust the amount of chain links to increase that tension. Additionally, you can fine-tune that adjustment and adjust ride height using the spacers here in the front. When comparing this to other weight distribution systems, this is going to be your more economical entry-level system.
It is going to do the job, and it's one of the easier ones out there to install and adjust.Now we're going to give you a few measurements so you can compare how the vehicle is when it's unloaded and versus when it's loaded and how our weight distribution system is going to bring those measurements back to the normal ride height. We'll start here at the rear of our vehicle while it's unloaded. It measures about 39 inches. At the front of the vehicle, we're going to measure about 36 3/4 inches. Now it is a good idea if you're installing this at home that you take these measurements as well and record those for later.
We've now hooked up our trailer and loaded down our vehicle. We'll retake that measurement in the rear. Now we measure about 37 3/4 inches. That's a drop of about 1 1/4 inches. Now we're back at the front and we're going to measure about 37 inches. So our front has raised up about a quarter of an inch. Again, I recommend you do record those measurements for later use.Next we'll need to prepare our trailer by leveling it and measuring the distance from the ground to the top of the ball. The use of a level can help get your trailer even in both the front and rear. Once you've got it even and level, go ahead and measure the height from the ground to the top of the hitch mount. We're measuring about 21 inches. We'll use this measurement when setting up our weight distribution system and deciding if we need to drop or rise.Now, depending on the size of your ball, you'll have to torque it to various specifications. Refer to your instructions for the appropriate specs for the shank on your ball. We'll then tighten it down using a special shorter 1 7/8 inch socket. Next, you'll want to install your drop or rise and put it in the appropriate position for your trailer. It may be in a drop position or a rise position. On ours, we're going to start with the drop position.Now we'll get our ball mount set up on our drop. Start by placing a flat washer on one of the large, brown-colored bolts. Line up your hitch in the appropriate position. You want the top of the ball to be about 3/4 to an inch higher than what our measurement was when our trailer was level. You'll then slide that bolt through the lower hole. Place a flat washer, lock washer, and nut on the other side. For our top hole, you'll take one of the adjustment washers, slide that on the bolt, raise your ball mount into position, and put this in the top slot.We'll then put our adjustment washer in the same orientation as on our opposite side here, and then recheck our measurement to make sure that that's going to be the appropriate height. Again, you want this to be about 3/4 to an inch higher than what your trailer mount was going to be. You'll then want to recheck your measurement. If you're a little bit too high, you can adjust your spacers to tilt the ball towards the rear. If you're too low, you can adjust it up but you don't want to go further up than straight up and down. You don't want to have the ball mount pointing towards the vehicle. Once you've found the appropriate adjustment, follow that up with a lock washer and nut. You can now tighten down your hardware with a 1 1/8 inch socket and wrench.We went ahead and hooked our trailer back up to our vehicle, and now we're going to prepare our arms. We'll now take our chain, slide our U-bolt through the last link, and drop that down through the top of the bar. On the bottom side, we'll install a washer followed by a nut. We'll now want to tighten it down with a 9/16 socket until there's about two threads protruding past the end of the nut. Make sure that the chain still flows freely, and then repeat the same process with the other bar, sliding them up and lining the notch up on the bar with the notch on your ball mount. Then rotate it towards your trailer. Do that on the other side.Included with your kit are the locking arms here where you would hook your chains. The bracket that comes with the kit would just sit over your frame rail and there would be a bolt that would thread in the back side to clamp it on, so there's no drilling required. However, we're not going to be able to use this one because it contacts our trailer body so we can't meet the appropriate distance measurements.We're going to be installing this bracket instead. These low-profile brackets will allow us to use our weight distribution system in a more restricted area such as this. We'll be installing these at about 28 5/8 inches from the center of our ball back on our frame. We're going to be going down about 1/4 of an inch from the top of the frame. These are special measurements for the special brackets. We're now going to make a mark at 28 5/8 inches from the center of the ball, and we'll make another mark down 1/4 of an inch. We'll be putting the center of our mount at the mark we made at 28 5/8 inches, and we're putting the top of the bracket down 1/4 of an inch.Go ahead and mark your holes now so you can drill those out. Repeat those same measurements on the other side. Before you drill any holes, you do want to take your chains, hold them up to your bracket, and make sure that they're pretty close to vertical with the center of the mark that you made. We'll now drill out a hole using a 1/2 inch drill bit in the center of the marks that we made for our holes. I'm going to go ahead and mark both holes before I drill them completely. Since this is a tube frame, we will be drilling all the way through the frame, so through this side and then through the back side. You do want to make sure that there's not any wiring or anything on the back side. If there is, you may need to route it out of the way.We can now install our brackets. We'll take the long bolts since we have tubular frames and we need to go through both. Slide on a conical tooth washer and slide it through the hole. Now, if you had a C-shaped frame, you would use the smaller bolts that come with your bracket kit. Make sure that the teeth on the conical tooth washer are facing inwards towards the bracket. On the back side, put on one of these large, flat washers, followed by a lock nut. Then you'll repeat the same process on the other side. Now tighten down your hardware using a 3/4 socket and wrench.We'll now test it out and check our measurements and see where we're at. To make it easier to install your links onto your bracket, use your jack to lift up the trailer and your vehicle while it's connected. Once you've got it lifted up, putting pressure rising up the rear end of the vehicle, install the chain on the bracket. We're going to start with just two links and check our measurements. After you've got the chain on, slide the lock pin through and do the same thing on the other side.Our weight distribution system is now hooked up. We're going to recheck our measurements. In the rear, we're measuring 38 1/8 inches. That means we've brought it up about 3/8 inches, where it was at without the weight distribution system, but we're still 7/8 of an inch away from where it was when the vehicle's completely unloaded. So we're going to go ahead and readjust and add more links to further distribute that weight onto the front wheels.We use the jack to lift up the vehicle and the trailer to make it easier to adjust it, and we got one more link out of it. We'll now recheck our measurements. In the rear we're about 38 1/2 inches, so we brought it within a 1/2 inch of tolerance, and we'll recheck our front. Now in the front, we're at about 36 1/2 inches so we're also within our 1/2 inch tolerance in the front. We've brought it as close as possible to being what our unloaded measurement was.After you've verified your vehicle's been brought closer to its unloaded state, come back and double check your trailer. As you can see here, our trailer's level. If your trailer's not level, you may need to raise or lower your ball mount or readjust the adjustable spacers to tilt it further up or down until you achieve level on both your trailer and get the desired measurements on your vehicle. Now torque your bolts to the specifications in your instructions. And that completes our installation of Reese's Weight Distribution System on our 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500.
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 Customer Reviews)
High-performance system is designed to offer the best in weight distribution with an easy-to-adjust, forged head; a raised ball platform; and flexible, powder coated steel, round spring bars. Adjustable shank included. Hitch ball sold separately.The product was just fine and half the price of a similar product elsewhere. But really impressed us was the quality and speed of the service... Rare in this day and age. Thanks 756820
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