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 Dually
wheel unit for $1129,
order now.
6-ply tires are 5.7 x 8 Load C, rated for 1800
lbs. total @ 65 mph! The 97 pound DUALLY Hitch
Helper fits any 2-inch receiver hitch. Dual Coil
springs give a smooth towing ride. Easy Height
Adjustment. Powder Coating resists corrosion.
One Year warranty. |
 Single
wheel unit for $599, order now
6-ply tire is a 5.7
x 8 Load C, rated for 910 lbs @ 65 mph! The 50
pound Hitch Helper uses your existing 2-inch
receiver hitch. Coil spring gives a smooth
towing ride. Easy Height Adjustment. Powder
Coating resists corrosion. One Year warranty. |
Extra Shipping $100 for Canada, Hawaii and Alaska
Heavy Slide-in Campers, Horse
Trailers, RV Trailers etc, give your truck and SUV the
help they need. Truck leaf springs are longer, Ford 2008
Super Duty has 8 inch longer rear springs which help for
a softer ride but also sag more under load. SUV's are
mostly rear coil springs now and they need help with
trailers.
Designed for
bumper pull trailers, slide-in truck campers, gooseneck
and 5th wheel trailers
Not for RV motor
homes or airplanes.
Questions, call 303-883-1300
Get rid of that
droopy rear. |
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| I review trucks and
trailers for a living. I use the Stinger Hitch Helper in
many of my reviews. I don't own the new truck and
trailers I review, so I can't be adding springs to the
trucks or weight distributing hitches to the trailers.
This makes Stinger a perfect tool for me. Slides on and
off in seconds without tools. Really makes the trucks
and trailers handle better with less steering effort
because the front axle keeps the right steering weight,
my headlights point straight ahead instead of the trees
and the trailers are level with even braking to both
axles. I highly recommend the Stinger Hitch Helper. It's
the truck and SUV load solution for heavy payloads or
towing.
MrTruck |
 Used
a Stinger hitch helper on the way back to Colorado from
SEMA in Vegas The Featherlite SURV trailer, empty heading to Colorado, like an empty horse
trailer LQ, was tongue heavy. The Stinger hitch helper did
improve the handling of the trailer without a weight distributing hitch. It takes some
of the weight off your rear truck axles. Measuring the mudflaps, we
were 1 inch higher off the pavement coming home with the Stinger. Curves in the
mountains had less under steer and of course I didn't bottom out
the jack going through gas stations coming back. The Featherlite SURV
has a 1250 lb tongue weight when empty, lighter with
4-wheelers in the back. Ran 65-70 mph thru the
mountains. It was 75 degrees thru Utah. Stinger eliminated some of the
porpous action
on I-70 between Salida and Green River Utah. I
like to use it too with the SUV's with rear independent
suspension. Even rear coil springs on newer SUV's can get
squirrelly with a trailer. Stinger solves that problem. |
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Now
a new dually model rated at 2000# tongue capacity. For
twice the fun! |
 
I
towed the new Lakota HUT LQ bumper tow horse trailer with the all new 2007 Toyota Tundra. They looked good
together, both in silver. Living Quarter horse trailers as well as toy
haulers, are tongue heavy. When loaded with horses or ATV's, they
balance out. For extra support using the 1/2 Tundra, I used a
Stinger Hitch Helper for the extra tongue weight since I couldn't add a weight distributing hitch to a new
trailer I didn't own. Hitch Helper is an easy and fast way to stabilize
a tongue heavy trailer. Truck manufactures are rating 1/2 ton trucks to
what 3/4 tons use to be rated. The rear leaf springs on
modern 1/2 tons don't keep the trucks level when towing
near their capacity at 10,000 lbs. |
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 As part of my 2006 Nissan Titan review, I
took a 2006 Logan Coach Rembrandt horse trailer for a spin up to
Estes Park next to the Rocky Mountain Park.
Scenic winding roads around mountains, was a
good test for the Stinger. I had the wheel down helping support
some of the tongue weight on the way up and wheel up for no
weight on the way back.
Yes I could tell the difference.
I could take the curves faster using the Stinger
Hitch Helper with less steering effort and
more control. Stability is a good thing
towing trailers, especially in the
 mountains.
Towing was smoother. |
 While
at the SEMA convention, looking for new towing products, I found one.
I'm old enough to remember the "Long Long Trailer" with Desi
and Lucy from the forties. Well at least the reruns. In the movie they bought a long travel trailer to pull with
their car. The
salesman then sold them a device that attached to the hitch of the
trailer with wheels on it, to keep the trailer hitch from dragging. Not
a bad idea. |
 I towed a
new Featherlite SURV toy hauler to Vegas to review on the way to SEMA. At
one point in Nevada leaving a gas station, I found those dips in the road
that sneak up on you. And yes I scraped the tongue jack, which was all
the way up. I was thinking "if I just had a wheel on the hitch to
prevent this". And low and behold at SEMA (Specialty Equipment
Manufactures Association) in the new products section was "Hell-Ya." I
found their booth and after waiting inline to talk to the president of
Stinger, Bob Cremer, arranged to try one out on my way home to Denver
(700 miles). On the "way home" is always a tricky event going back
through the Rockies on I-70 in November (snow) over Vail Pass (10,600
ft) and the Eisenhower tunnel with it's famous 7% grade at
around 11,013 ft. My return trip went well.
email
kent@mrtruck.net |
  Stinger
did keep the nose heavy trailer from dragging the jack again and some of
the wavy pavement between Salida and Green River through Utah, bounced
less.
Toy haulers are tongue heavy without cargo. Even curves seemed easier
to handle. I adjusted the Stinger Hitch Helper to one hole above where the
tire was touching the ground before hooking to the trailer. Towing the 8000 lb Featherlite SURV, level
with a 2004 Chevy HD 2500, from Denver to Vegas and then back again to
Denver after attaching the Stinger, measured again and found the truck
set up an inch higher with the Stinger. Of course I had to be extreme in
my testing to prove value, so I overloaded the Stinger with a
1250 lb tongue weight. It was a average of 75 degrees F and I
traveled between 65 and 70- mph. The trailer towed better with
the Stinger and curves felt safer with less trailer feedback.
Stinger which slides into your receiver hitch, has a 6-ply tire
that is spring loaded. The Stinger Hitch Helper single tire is
rated for 1000 lbs of tongue weight. There are advantages
helping your tow vehicle reduce tongue weight. A level truck or
SUV has better steering control especially if you can transfer
weight forward. Stinger is well built
with the similar components as a receiver hitch and is powder coated. It
has height adjustment, easy to hook up and take off. You may need to add
a couple of links to the safety chains. |
 I've
tried Stinger on travel trailers, tested it on horse trailers and will
work with slide in truck campers. This may be the next big thing
in towing. Boat trailers should benefit from the Stinger Hitch Helper as for some unknown reason,
the majority of boat trailer manufactures especially those using torsion
axles, don't like weight distributing hitches. Makes no sense to me, not
all WDH's will affect the surge brake coupler system found on most
boats. Having some trailer tongue weight on the Stinger spring loaded
tire does take some sway from the trailer. I'd like to try the Stinger
on some of the expansion joints on the freeways of California, where the
bouncing Porpus action of a bumper pull trailer can drive your crazy.
Stinger Hitch Helper now offers a dual tire hitch.
    
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Tired
of your headlights shining in the trees? Stinger
Hitch Helper introduces a dually version.
Rated for 2000# tongue weight. Stinger Hitch,
simple to attach to your receiver hitch and then just add trailer or
cargo, what a difference it makes ! Great for those heavy slide-in truck
campers. Improve your truck or SUV's
handling. Stinger Hitch Helper use it when you need it. Take if off when
you don't. Feel safe again with this new load stabilizing helper.
See the details, pictures and video for safer towing and a level rig... |
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