What have you towed lately

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BNielsen

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Thanks. I’ll have a look at it with that in mind.

Changing the height was necessary, as it was set for the camper PO’s pickup truck. He graciously included the hitch with the camper sale.
I got lucky with my WD hitch, my truck and my buddy's truck were pretty much the same height.
The only thing I hated about this hitch was the locking pin kept wanting to come loose, in fact the first time I pulled the camper I wound up dragging one of the bars for a few miles because it came loose.
I'd like to get a Blue Ox WD hitch in this style but the round bar style seems so much safer as far as the bar keeping locked in place.
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The truck pulled a lot better with the camper nosed up a smidge with the hitch set up, but because of how low it was I constantly drug the ass end of the camper on driveways with the slightest incline. Luckily it had rollers on the back but I still hated it. I should've done what @Supercharged111 said, drop the hitch a peg and run more air in the bags; I feel like it would've been perfect with that combination.
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There you go. That looks like it would do the job.

EDIT: after reading the reviews, there appear to be some fitment issues.
I can confirm that is does fit on a k2500 burb. There are two bolts towards the rear of the tranny where it rests on the rubber mount that are a little tight but still doable.
 

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Erik the Awful

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Yesterday I put La Cucaracha (my son's old '05 Altima that's been wrecked 5 times) on my 18' trailer behind WCJr and towed it twenty miles to a buddy's house. His son is going to part it out.

The transmission did just fine, and the engine has enough torque that pulling up steep hills at 60 mph on back roads wasn't a problem. The car is just north of 3000 lbs, and the trailer's probably somewhere around 2000 lbs. The short wheelbase was the only sketchy part. It was pretty gusty, and I got a bit of trailer sway once I got on Highway 9 and got up to the speed of traffic. I slowed it down a hair and it towed beautifully.
 

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This, weekend before last, to Austin and back. Trailer probably has a ton of stuff in it, or fairly close. Some year I'm gonna hafta scale this rig, loaded....
 

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Finally got my suburban build far enough along to take it on its maiden tow voyage. I forgot to take some picks with its load (1/2 a cord of oak wood) but did roughly 350 miles to get said wood and drop it off at my storage. for sure some things I need to address as this thing suffered hard in power going up hills. We were fighting the wind and live above 6000ft of elevation. but I am positive some new gears and probably a new exhaust manifold are in its future and than! we'll :grd:
 

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