Does anyone know of any good weight distributing and sway bar systems?
If so what's a good system and a good price?
I will only be towing around 2 - 3 tons.
Any websites will help

thanks for the responses

 

Here's a good site to get you started:

http://www.etrailer.com/Merchant2/me...tegory_Code=WD

 

Only 2-3 tons and you want to put on a WD hitch, why? I am not flaming you or anything, just asking. Since I am towing 4-5 tons 1-2 times a week and I used to tow 7 tons 1-2 times a month, without a WD hitch, just a 2 5/16 or pintle hitch depending on the trailer. Yes I know I should get a bigger truck...

 

I think this is in the wrong forum, but...I think that WD hitches are needed for excessive tongue weight, not total weight. I pulled a 5200 lb camper with a loading deck on the front like this http://www.kz-rv.com/coyote_rc/index.html. After putting 2 600 lb ATVs on the front, the hitch wgt jumps up dramatically. A WD hitch solved that problem

 

Thanks for replying

Well i tow a 35 foot trailer and can only put large heavy items in the front so thats why i thank that it would help. plus i mostly tow for 800 miles.

 

You pull 14,000lbs with a half ton truck???

 

I run the Reese WD hitch with 800 lb. spring bars and no additional sway control to tow my 26 ft. travel trailer. Just the WD hitch improves the handling a great deal, you may not need an additional sway control device. Try the WD hitch first and work up from there. I used the same WD hitch for a 4500 lb. 19 foot travel trailer and it made a world of improvement over towing without it.

 

If no one else says it, I will: You're an idiot. That is all...

KC-10 FE out...

 

this one works really well

[url]http://www.rvsupplywarehouse.com.
go down to the hitches and look at the equil-i-zer. does both load level and sway control

 

I agree with you 100%. I have seen to many overloaded vehicles on the road. I know of one guy that had his hitch completly ripped off the frame because there was just to much weight. Yes a WD hitch helps with tongue weight but it does not take the force of all that weight pulling and pushing on the truck.

 

I've towed my camper with an Equalizer brand WD hitch for 2 years and it does a great job. I bought it at http://www.rvwholesalers.com/catalog...&cat=74&page=1 for $399 delivered. It has not gone to $419. It is a weight distributing hitch with sway control. To this I added the Prodigy brake controller for $99 (from same place) and it has proven to be an almost ideal setup for my needs. Hitch is explained at http://equalizerhitch.com/

 

You are absolutely right! You want to keep all four tires equally on the pavement.

 

I have only towed that with my 04 a couple of times, and only 1-2 miles, since the equipment had to be moved and I wasn't going to run home or to the shop to get another truck to move it such a short distance. Most of the time I use my work truck, or my fathers truck, since it is his business. This load is a S250 Bobcat with 84" bucket on a 20' tilt bed equipment trailer, and also 84" industrial grapple that we carry on the trailer.

Ok, why am I such an idot?? I have never heard of a WD set-up for a pintle hitch. And also on my work truck and also my fathers truck we both have class V 2.5" hitches.

You just assume that since I posted this in the 04+ F150 forum, that I did this all the time with my 04. And after rereading my post, I could have worded it a little better.

I have towed both with and without WD hitches on a couple of different trailers, and personally I didn't see any huge change in the way that they towed. One trailer that I can think of actually towed much better without them, than with. This was a 28' enclosed trailer that we were taking on an ATV trip, with the WD the truck and trailer were bucking pretty bad. Took the bars off and everything smoothed right out. But just my $.02.

 

I also have towed both ways (25' travel trailer) and there was not a great deal of difference except without the hitch, I sometimes would get fishtailing over 60 and sidewinds had more of an impact. The bucking with the bars on indicates either the bars were to heavy for the load or it was set up wrong. I always tow with my WD hitch because I don't want a $50,000 accident and the chance of death or injury.

 

X2. If you can't tell a difference or you get bucking and bouncing you definitely have something not set up correctly. Any time you put the hitch on a different tow vehicle you should readjust the angle of the head and the ball height according to the manufacturers instructions.