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Originally Posted by freebeard
My trailer-hitch-in-progress has two downward pointing ears for the safety chains to pass through. I'd thought about adding a steering damper that would be positioned just under the hitch.
There is a category of 'load-leveling' or 'equalizing' hitches you might want to look into.
I also saw someone suggested running with the trailer tire half-flat. Sort of a real primitive air suspension with no unsprung weight? You could compare aired up with load against empty with low pressure.
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I looked at the load-leveling/equalizing hitches and it won't work on this type of hitch because of where the pivot points are and they are a friction based type of dampening.
Because of the small trailer tire, I don't think I want to risk pre-mature failure of the tire since the sidewalls would incur extra stress with the lowered inflation.
Here's a piccie of the hitch and my rudimentary drawing of what it would roughly look like...
I would probably lower the nose of the trailer to a lower point on the hitch ears and extend the attachment point of the shock absorber so that the shock absorber would git a better radius angle. As the back end of the trailer travels up, the shock absorber would compress and dampen the bucking effect of the trailer.
I have to determine how much compression travel there will be so I can find an absorber that will fit correctly. I'm probably looking at a gas filled shock absorber, too.
