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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Topic: Anti sway or Equalizer hitch ?? Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:58pm |
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I still need a breaker bar to mount the ball. You said that thin-walled socket is definately 3/4" drive?
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"Ray & Connie"
- 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
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Footslogger03
Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Location: Laramie, WY Online Status: Offline Posts: 362 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:49pm | |
====================================== Now ...get yourself a comfortable little stool, a cold beer and start twisting those nuts and bolts :-) 'Slogger |
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Livin' the Dream ...'Slogger
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:46pm | |
I just did a full inventory. Luckily, everything is there.
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"Ray & Connie"
- 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
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techntrek
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:45pm | |
My box came all busted up, too. I don't know how I wasn't missing any pieces, like the L brackets. While the E2 and Equalizer aren't identical, they are close enough that any video made for one should be OK for the other. |
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:44pm | |
The reason I "assumed" 1/2", was because that's all I saw at Sears. Nothing in 3/4" that I could see.
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"Ray & Connie"
- 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:43pm | |
Thanks. I was getting ready to ask "what the hell are those wingy things sticking up? :)"
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"Ray & Connie"
- 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
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Footslogger03
Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Location: Laramie, WY Online Status: Offline Posts: 362 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:41pm | |
OK ...here is a pic of my Equalizer WDH assembly (off of the truck). Disregard those "wings" pointing upward from the shank shaft. Those are the arms for my "Rock Tamer" mudflaps ...
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Footslogger03
Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Location: Laramie, WY Online Status: Offline Posts: 362 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:25pm | |
==================================== It should be 3/4" on that socket. Give me a few minutes to find that pic and I'll upload it. 'Slogger |
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:23pm | |
Thanks, that helps. If you wouldn't mind posting pics, that would be great. I have a '07 TRD Off-Road, 4x4 model of Tacoma. So, is that thin-walled socket a 1/2" drive or 3/4" drive? Now I'm not so sure.
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"Ray & Connie"
- 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
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Footslogger03
Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Location: Laramie, WY Online Status: Offline Posts: 362 |
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 at 4:05pm | |
============================= No tricks I can think of. I presume you are taking about the "shank" - - and yes, the standard shank fit perfectly. Not sure which model Taco you have and what your ball height off the ground is, but on mine I had to orient the shank with the longer end (vertically speaking here) downward. The top of the hitch head is flush (or darn near) with the top of the shank (ie ...I used the top hope in the side of the hitch head for the upper bolt. I ended up with a piece of vertical shank that sticks down about 8" or so below the hitch head, but it hasn't caused any problems. I have yet to "bottom out" while towing the Pod. I left the hitch head/shank assembly on the Taco after our last trip and when pulling itno our ACE Hardware parking lot I did hear the hitch bang - - but the street is REALLY crested high and there is a huge dip at the curb before you start up their driveway, so that's a worst case scenariio. Hope that helps. I can post a pic of my assembled hitch (off of the truck) if you want. Oh, and the bar (breaker bar) I bought to use with that humongous socket is just a long handle with a 3/4" socket base on it. I bought the 1/2" -> 3/4" adapter at first because I already had a 1/2" breaker bar and my torque wrench is 1/2" drive - - but the handle length on the 3/4" breaker bar is longer for better leverage and it's made of overall thicker steel. 'Slogger |
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