Free way to stop your hitch from rattling

SUBURBAN5 said:

Yeah theres some goofy laws. Brother a cop and was telling me some. But it really depends on the circumstance to go that far lol

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618 Syndicate said:

I agree, but it's still a violation in a technical sense. Like if the cop just wants to be a dick about it.
Also, when you drive a low truck you gotta flip the hitch upside down to get the trailer level. Mine is a 6" drop hitch turned over, trailer sits nose up about 1.5" empty, with a car on it I put about 60 lbs in the bags and it's level. Pulls great.

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SUBURBAN5 said:

I see makes sense forgot about the lower trucks lol. Well at least in houston some of the cops are chilled. Crying out loud there trucks drivin with the lights in the wheels wells. Could of sworn that's illegal here

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thegawd said:

if I'm pulling a trailer ever day, it stays in.

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Edward Case said:

After bumping into it at night it comes out

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Hipster said:

So you're talking about a 2014 truck and not a gmt400 and his car was plastic and bump in a drive through? So like he ROLLED into you?

There's no comparison between a 2014 with a boxed high strength steel frame sections and a gmt400.

Holy bejeebuz.

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DerekTheGreat said:

If you left it in, you'd most likely end up with the thing all bent & mangled, to the point of not being able to take it out or even use it. That or you'd still end up with a bent bumper as the hitch will just poke a hole in whatever it stabbed, allowing the rest of the impact to "mellow out" on something with more surface area.

Around here, if you leave the hitch in, it'll just rust in place after a few years and catch calfs in the parking lot. F that noise. Take it out and leave it in the cab if you tow that much with the rig.

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93crewcab said:

I have a 2014 bumper on my gmt400. And my frame is 1/4 thick. If it bends by getting hit at 5 mph ill just scrap the truck. The guy didn't roll into me hit going atleast 5mph. It was a f150 and the hitch bend the steel bumper and went between the steel and plastic.

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454cid said:

Years ago, I had an 89 Jeep Comanche that came to me with a rusty receiver. The hitch wouldn't really fit any more. I lightly pounded it in with something. It wouln't go in far enough to put the pin through. I very carefully moved a fiberglass I/O speed boat on a trailer from one spot to another. I then chained the hitch to a very large oak tree, to get the hitch back out

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Hipster said:

Do what you will man. I would be under there with a tram gauge measuring because damage isn't always visible to a calibrated eyeball.

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