do you have the correct size ball for the hitch?
They are not all the same and is pretty dangerious to use the wrong size.
Even on the "Universal Clamping" type.
Do you have an old pop up trailer with the pinned together extenable tongue? and if ypu do are those pin holes way out of round.
At 2000 pounds Im going to assume that if it has any trailer brakes at all they would be electric.
Any slop or a slow to release brake can send a thud right through the truck that feels like the ass end of it is coming loose.
I bought a 27 foot 2.5 ton Soling sailboat and hitched it to my lowered 1970 f-100.
I had the same type of problem.
Every time I hit the gas it thumped hard and pulled the back of the truck down.
I knew it was way too much boat for the truck so I paid the guy another 400 friggen dollars to leave it at the dry storage while I fixed the truck at home.
It wasnt the truck, it was the trailer.
2.5 tons on a single axle leaf sprung surge brake trailer that had been parked next to the saltwater since 1972 or so.
I bought the boat based on it being a "fixer upper" on a good trailer.
And the trailer looked great!
And it was a do or die situation. The state of washington passed a law where towing unstable loads on single axle trailers was illegal
This friggen guy took that rotted out trailer and dropped the boat in water and blasted the trailer and bondoed the rust and painted it and put the boat back on it.
That thump and feeling that the ass end of the truck felt like it was coming off was the left wheel of the trailer locking up and the axle sliding across that new paint like it was grease.
And that will wag your tail like a dog looking for treats.
Turns out that trying to tow a 2.5 ton 12 foot tall sailboat with a lowered 70 f100 with a maybe 180 horse 68 merc 302 and a three on the tree while you freak out your girlfiend and make her scream.
Not my finest hour.
The part of relationships that I sometimes have to remind myself about is that even if I dont give a flying **** about what happens to me I have a duty and a responsibilty and a debt of soul
to the people who do care about me.
Some idiots see that concern as represion.
You really need to pay attention to that you dopes.
That doubt, that pullback from affection is when she is loosing confidence in you.
Or, Shes a ******* loon that will suck the life out of you.
Either way, whether she takes alll of your money or wraps your head in a plastic bag in the middle of the night....
If you live through it,
No matter what happens or what the cops have to say....
Fuckem all
You still need a truck.