Pair the built-in tongue weight scale on this hitch with the easy-to-use instructional app, and get the perfect towing setup. We love how Weigh Safe makes it easy to get totally balanced, but we love the smooth ride this hitch offers even more.
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Note: Some Bulldog-style sleeve-lock couplers may not work with this system because of the limited space between the hitch ball and the lead screw in the system head. There is approximately 2-1/2" between the screw and the center of the hitch ball.
The most important thing you can do to ensure a safe, smooth ride when towing is making sure that your tongue weight is evenly distributed. If the balance is off, well, you've probably been there before, bouncing all over the road and getting pulled in every different direction. Simply put, when your load isn't properly distributed, your steering goes kaput.
Getting things just right can be a huge pain. First of all, depending on your trailer (and everything loaded into your truck), you may not even be able to adequately redistribute your weight on your own. You might just plain need a weight distribution system to help.
Standard weight distribution systems can be a bear. You need to manually tweak and adjust every little thing, and even then, there might be so much play in the setup that you'll still have issues with handling. The go-to for picking up that slack is typically adding sway control, but that can lead to other issues, like not being able to back up or tow in the rain.
The True Tow is designed to make solving these problems as simple as possible. No more fiddling around with hard-to-adjust parts. No more guesswork when setting things up. No more terrible sway on the highway. Just follow the setup process to get a perfectly balanced system and hit the road.
The setup steps are easy:
1. Hook your trailer up to the ball on the system head.
2. Take note of the weight on the built-in scale to make sure your tongue weight is in that sweet spot (10% to 15% of your GTW).
3. Pop into the companion app on your phone and answer a few questions, then wait for the app to give you an exact "distributed tongue weight."
4. Hook up the spring arms so the system is fully in place.
5. Adjust the lead screw on the hitch head until the scale shows the "distributed tongue weight" that the app had you shoot for.
Once you've completed all the steps, just make sure all your connections are secure and head out on your journey!
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello, everybody, Steve here with etrailer.com. Today, we're looking together at our Weigh Safe True Tow Weight Distribution Hitch with a two-inch shank and a six-inch drop, or a 7 1/2 inch rise. Now, folks, this is ready at 18,500 pounds capacity. Now, with the Weigh Safe, you're gonna get a smooth, even and safe ride while towing, and it's gonna make balancing your load super easy with its built-in scale, so you don't have to worry about poor handling. It'll also correct sway from happening, so those passing semis, hard crosswinds, those kinda things. It's gonna use built-in tension on the head and the bars down here at the lift or sway control brackets and those friction points.
Now, again, with Weigh Safe, you get the built-in scale. I'll zoom in here so you can see it better, and you're gonna be able to download their app. There's a QR code here on top. You are also gonna get the instructions. So, with that downloadable app, they're gonna be able to let you input your information for your trailer, the weight, length, and those kinda things potentially, and you're gonna be able to get the perfect distributed tongue weight for your setup.
Now, they're gonna give you a range of a sweet spot, let's say, and you'll want to increase or decrease the tongue weight and the loading your trailer to reach that optimal weight. Now, you're also gonna have this bolt up here. The lift bar here is gonna have a built-in wrench, and you'll simply go in or out, left or right, however you wanna word it, and that's gonna adjust the angle on the head here and help adjust that tongue weight as well. Now, all this will give you a peace of mind when you're loading, unloading and using this, because you're gonna have that safe range to work with. Now, the ball here is a stainless steel ball.
It is a 2 5/16 inch size, rated again, at 18,500 pounds gross towing weight. The tongue weight is 1,850 pounds. Now, zooming back out, you've got the two-inch shank here. Again, the rise on here is a six-inch drop, but a 7 1/2 inch rise, and the lock here is stainless steel, it's included. It's a nice round lock with a round, tubular key to be used with it.
You get two keys. Very nice design. I personally like the tubular keys versus the flat keys. Easier to use, a lot better as far as theft deterrent as well. Now, everything here is a nice hardened steel. It's been V5 and J684-certified for safety, and it's all black powder coat on the finish here to give you a nice, elegant look, but also keep it clean and free of rust and corrosion and those kinda things. Now, going over here to the lift brackets, folks, you're gonna have to measure when you set this up per the instructions. The center of your coupler or the center of the ball to the center of these brackets needs to be between 27 and 32 inches back from the center down the side of your frame. It's got a max trailer height on the frame of six inches tall. That's what one of those brackets looks like installed, and if you need higher than six inches, they offer an eight-inch bracket kit sold separately. You're also gonna get the lift bar as you already saw before. Now, obviously, whenever you're using this, everything's gonna be under spring tension, so follow the instructions to be able to safely put this underneath, pop it on the frame and lift it up into place, and then you'll secure it with these L-pins here, and yes, there's supposed to be that much play of movement. Remember, these are gonna slide when you're making turns, they're gonna slide on these brackets, creating that friction that you need, and also these bars here can pivot in or out. Again, I've got it set here on the table just for demonstration purposes, so I'm not gonna open and close them, but they can open and close as needed to fit the different trailer frames that are out there as well. Well, folks, that's gonna wrap it up. Just a quick look together at the Weigh Safe True Tow Weight Distribution Setup. I'm Steven, thanks so much for watching. As always, stay safe while you're towing.
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