no they actually make something called a weight distributing hitch

 

Here's your basic concept:


Those bars attach to the "arms" on the trailer, helps to distribute the weight and pull better. I used to know how it works too but I forgot and I'm too lazy to go look that up.

 

That one's pretty close to the rig I use. Here's an image that's pretty similar to our's, but I think our's is a bit more heavy duty. The one pictured in Altair's post is a bit more heavy duty still. As you can see from the picture of mine, there's chains on the trailer end of the spring arms. The tighter the chains are (the closer they are to the toungue) the more weight is being distributed.

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fancy....this is a new world to me

 

Alls the Equalizer bars do is pull the tounge down onto the ball harder. This helps when you load with a rearward bias to your trailer.The rearward weight wants to make the trailier tounge lift up over bumps etc. The bar's pull the tounge down so it dosent lift up. If you allready have to much tounge weight, then the bars will not "distribute weight". But, if you can load up the rear more, thus taking tounge weight off, and using the bars to keep the toung on the hitch, you rear suspension will thank you greatly.

 

im going to look for one of those later on in the future if i get a trailer myself, even though id love to have a bigger truck first

so far i installed the valley hitch....reall easy and painless to install and it worked great...wouldnt know where to start without u guys....



then i rented myself a tow dolly ...



...and towed my SC thunderbird to go get the new motor put in and its new headers....




thanks fellas

 

I'm pretty sure that's not right. The trailer's load just cases sag between the tow vehicle and trailer (especially on a rear suspension as soft as the Dakota's), which is what the bars are designed to fix. When the equalizer bars are installed, they even out the weight, reducing or eliminating the sag between tow vehicle and trailer. With the ones that I use for my truck and the church trailer, the tighter the bars are cranked (if you look at the pic in my post below, the ends of the bars with the chains can come closer to the trailer--in the picture, they're installed very loosely) the more weight is being passed from the rear axle to the front axle of the tow vehicle. When you put them on, you can actually, physically see the back end of your tow vehicle come up to near it's normal riding level. The amount the back end of the tow vehicle rises, though, is dependent on how tightly you have the equalizer bars.

They're actually designed to be used, though, with a trailer that's properly loaded, with 60% of the weight in front of the trailer axles, 40% behind. You actually never, ever want the majority of your weight behind the axles on a trailer...that causes trailer sway, which, from experience, makes your ride far too exciting and dangerous. There is such thing as too much tongue weight, too, which will help to reduce the effectiveness of the equalizer bars, but that's just because you're loaded too heavy on the tongue and the bars can only shift so much weight.

The RVing community loves weight distribution setups like these. It really is a safe way to haul a lot of weight. I'm re-setting the church weight distribution hitch up for my truck today (we changed it last week for our generator trailer and tow vehicle) and I'll have the trailer on Monday--I'll snap a picture of the whole hookup then.

 

is this a 4" or 6" drop? dude, im telling you, get rid of the ball mount. its too low...if you tow something heavy not only will you be very close to the ground, but at that angle it is very likely the trailor will be angled down towards the truck providing more tongue weight...if i were you, i would go out and get a 2" drop or a level ball mount....i wasnt happy with my 2" drop so i flipped it and that provided a lift which took a lot of tongue weight off my truck and with the kind of stuff i haul, helped distribute the weight better providing a better ride for me and less of a saggy back end which means a little more clearamce....and always make sure you are using the correct ball size for your trailor.

 

your hitch would be way too big to flip like mine, but here is how mine is flipped and what i mean

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...g?t=1183161190

 

Just hauled 3 4 wheelers on a trailer and my MX in the Box today, Pulled it like a dream I am now FULLY satisfied at buyin this DAK