I could swear I tried to tow a personal trailer with one of U-Haul's trucks and they said "no". That was a couple years ago, though. I seem to remember the truck had a padlock and cap on the receiver.

 

nono - my truck, uhaul trailer so the reverse

 

Oooh. I had one retailer loan me a ball. Not sure that's standard practice, though. He was a cool dude who ran uhaul from his property.
They are super cheap, though. Like $5-7 from Harbor Freight. I picked up a set of hitch locks, while I was at it.

 

You can get Reese branded ones at home depot or amazon for cheap too. It's one of those hard parts I try not to be too cheap on.

 

yea apparently need to find my receiver size first, looks like 2". any 2" reese hitch receiver will do?

 

Depends on the track and the trailer. You'll first see that they all have "height" numbers to them. 2 inch drop, 5 inch drop, etc etc. A good average is 2 inch ball on 2 inch drop. Does you truck need a hitch adapter, the square that goes inside the square to fit tightly on a standard receiver. But if you wanted to cover all the bases you'd be looking at the adjustable height ones and a tripple ball. The second part is how low does the trailer drop the rear suspension (based on load and spring rates). At the end of the day you want the whole thing level. So that's why you see discussions on correcting the rear ride height of the truck once excessive load is applied. If your Sequoia's bags are in good shape, and it has the adapter still in place with no rust issues, then start with a 2 inch drop and a buddies loaded trailer to see where you end up before going on a long trip. Or load yours up the day before and drive around the neighborhood.

 

I had no knowledge of weight distributing before this week. Found a good video on the subject

 

yea i likely would need the adapter, looking at this ( ). i think i'd be okay with this for now before things need to get fancier. Sequoia Platinums should have auto leveling to handle the rest. no buddies with trailers in stl but i would def test drive before going on a trip for sure. what prevents the cup from popping off the ball after a big pothole? just the tightening that you do on the cup?

 

Any of those hitches will work. They are just solid chunks of steal and a welded plate, with a hole drilled in it. You're good to go!

 

There's a clip that goes around the bottom of the ball, you lock it in place with the safety pin. Then you have the two safety chains. And the disconnect emergency brakes. It'll literally try to kill you before it comes off of there lol.

 

That's comforting...but not.

 

A lot of things had to go wrong to get to that point. If its setup right, you'll be hard pressed to ever get there even in an emergency. If it feels sketchy just driving around bends, you need to adjust something.

 

good to know?

 

i saw inside the sequoia yesterday - looks like you can manually set the level.


would this work for my applications? tow ball not included, there wasn't a package of this with the 2" ball, but those are inexpensive

 

Perhaps, but I wouldn't put a load balance on a uhaul trailer. Or bother with it rather. It's kind of a pain to measure and setup for a 1 shot deal. Get a simple ball and receiver locally, so you can exchange and return right away rather then getting stuck. Do a 1 day'er at Gateway or something unless you're registered for something sooner?