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    Posted: 01 Feb 2019 at 6:45pm
I ordered the Hayes Sway Master today.  Hoping it will provide the sway control I was seeking.
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The round bar pressure on our L brackets has never really been an issue, no matter what load we've had.  The adjustment is set such that one must raise the trailer to install and/or remove the bars.  They supply a lever to free the bars, and the only time I used it [even after raising the trailer a bit], I realized that it takes a lot of force to remove it and you don't want to get any body parts in the way as the bar pops off or you'll end up with a horrible bruise or a fractured bone.  We've never noticed the friction to be too low nor have we ever had any problem with too much noise.
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Posts: 1222 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jan 2019 at 12:32pm
   Maybe someone on the forum would be interested in buying your hitch, list it in the the Campers Flea Market. Sorry it has not worked out for you. Unhappy
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Posts: 1407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:41am
Sounds like a good excuse to get a second battery and/or second propane bottle to increase the tongue weight.
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Posts: 40 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:05am
I have more than used up the enthusiasm I had for this project and device.  I will not be pursuing it any further.  Thanks to everyone for your helpful posts, no further assistance is needed.
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Posts: 446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jan 2019 at 9:18am
better pic i think.  the instructions do not say that you have to do this i dont think as i reread.  
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Posts: 2702 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jan 2019 at 9:16am
Originally posted by michaeln

Wow, your F-150 has 11500 lbs capacity?  I would not have thought it was that high.
Yup. Gross combined rating is over 17,000 lbs.

The recommendation on our F-150 is to use a WDH if the tongue weight exceeds 500 lbs. So we are on the edge of that, as our tongue weight at the high end is around 570 lbs. We opted to go with the WDH, and we use the E2. We have plenty of tension on the WD bars, as we have to crank the tongue up quite a ways to get them to go on in the first place.

We also have a Tacoma, which has much lower ratings, and is a lighter vehicle as well. I am positive that we would use a WDH if we towed with it. No question.

So your issue is that you're putting something in the neighborhood of 400 lbs (give or take) on the receiver of your Tacoma. Given the moment arm, that is (for sure) reducing the weight on your steering wheels. Probably something on the order of 100 lbs, but I have not done the math.

I personally think that the mods you made on your suspension are leading you astray. With the lighter capacities of the Tacoma, I think you would be better off with a WDH. 

I would suggest that you go to this web site and plug in the numbers to see where you're at.
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i have a fastway E2 600lb. trunnion wdh as well.  It works well.

Look at the pic from the instructions.  figure 2a and 2b. The top bolt that attaches the ball assembly to the receiver that goes in the vehicle has a slotted opening that should allow you to make the top of the ball assembly make contact to the rivet without much help from the bolt at the bottom.  Will yours not make contact if you do that?  I have 420lbs of tongue weight w/o water. Hope this makes sense....
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Thanks michaeln, 

I have a Reese Pro wdh. The issues I have with it are that it is quite time consuming to hook up because the sway control is done with two separate friction bars that have to be installed in addition to the trunnion bars, and that there is no room to adjust where the trunnion bar chain brackets attach to the A frame. 

The separately adjustable sway control bars are now starting to look like an advantage. The inability to change the A frame mounting points is still a problem for me though. Guess I'll do some more reasearch.
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Posts: 2702 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jan 2019 at 9:01am
Originally posted by offgrid

I’m not clear how sway control on the E2 works, can someone who has one clarify if you can still get sway control with this hitch if it’s untensioned or only very lightly tensioned?
It is friction between the the trunnion/round bars and the L brackets attached to the trailer A-frame. One criticism is that the interface tends to squeak/moan. In our case, it can't be heard (at all) on the road, but only when you are slowly cruising a campground. We actually put a small dab of petroleum grease on top of the L brackets. This probably reduces the anti-sway a bit, but we have not experienced a problem.
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