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Resident Fruitcake
As some of you know I have been fighting trailer sway even since I switched trucks and I finally whipped it 
To bring everyone up to speed - Used to have F350 CC Dually which handled the trailer quite well I would say - never had felt much of a push from the semi's as they passed and cross winds did not effect the combo much. (Pull a 31ft TT weighs in at 9200-9500lbs "wet") have the std Reese WD setup with friction sway control - I know not the best but hey it worked... Fast forward to last fall picked up a different truck (2500 Ext Cab SRW) well needless to say the trailer does the driving and the truck is along for the ride. At first thought it was all the tires but that was not the case (they did have some effect on it but not as much as I was first thinking).
Anyhoo... Sherri and I did a last ditch effort this past week with it. We rotated the hitch head to the last notch in the tilt dept and really - I mean really leaned on the WD bars to the point where I thought they would probably snap. We figured if this did not take care of the sway then the trailer would be sold toot sweet and a 5er would be taking it's place. But I'm happy to report that all we needed to do was tilt and lean on the WD bars. Handling is right up to ***** - not as good as it was with the 4 wheels in the rear but it's petty dog gone close.
Just as a side note yes I did download the instructions from the maker of the hitch and followed their directions to a tee with all the measurements the first time around. I learned that those instructions are only a STARTING point and not the final stop. We ended up two notches past the printed directions to get the load balanced.
Only problem/complaint now is boy do you have really yank to get the bars loaded - this is even with cranking the living snot out of the jack to the point where you want to check to see if the rear tires are off the ground on the truck.
(it's not that bad but boy you sure do work up a sweat running the jack).... I think it's time for me to buy an electric jack (a big one at that).
To bring everyone up to speed - Used to have F350 CC Dually which handled the trailer quite well I would say - never had felt much of a push from the semi's as they passed and cross winds did not effect the combo much. (Pull a 31ft TT weighs in at 9200-9500lbs "wet") have the std Reese WD setup with friction sway control - I know not the best but hey it worked... Fast forward to last fall picked up a different truck (2500 Ext Cab SRW) well needless to say the trailer does the driving and the truck is along for the ride. At first thought it was all the tires but that was not the case (they did have some effect on it but not as much as I was first thinking).
Anyhoo... Sherri and I did a last ditch effort this past week with it. We rotated the hitch head to the last notch in the tilt dept and really - I mean really leaned on the WD bars to the point where I thought they would probably snap. We figured if this did not take care of the sway then the trailer would be sold toot sweet and a 5er would be taking it's place. But I'm happy to report that all we needed to do was tilt and lean on the WD bars. Handling is right up to ***** - not as good as it was with the 4 wheels in the rear but it's petty dog gone close.
Just as a side note yes I did download the instructions from the maker of the hitch and followed their directions to a tee with all the measurements the first time around. I learned that those instructions are only a STARTING point and not the final stop. We ended up two notches past the printed directions to get the load balanced.
Only problem/complaint now is boy do you have really yank to get the bars loaded - this is even with cranking the living snot out of the jack to the point where you want to check to see if the rear tires are off the ground on the truck.
(it's not that bad but boy you sure do work up a sweat running the jack).... I think it's time for me to buy an electric jack (a big one at that).
Most folks don't believe it but the 19.5's are very similar to a dually in stability.
