How to Get Rid of Trailer Hitch Rattle ● With a Hitch Clamp !
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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This is how to totally eliminate trailer hitch rattle. This simple little hitch clamp tightens to get rid of any looseness or rattle in your trailer hitch tow bar. No more noise from your trailer hitch.
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Love how short and get to the point your videos are. I actually appreciate it a lot!
That is good feedback! I try to get right to it in all my videos.
@@chrisnotap, I don't even have a trailer hitch, but I watched it due to this exactly. Your content is great!
Chris, I don't have a trailer or hitch but this fix is simple and to the point. Thanks, as always for informing us!!!
Thanks for this video! It's exactly what I needed. My hitch carrier came with one of these but the instructions provided were horrible. I couldn't see where it went. Thanks again!
That's pretty cleaver, thanks for sharing! What I did is I replaced my hitch pin with a grade 8 bolt and nut and torqued it down hard so it squeezes the receiver tube a bit to keep the hitch tight. Works perfectly! No more play at all anymore and it can't be stolen nearly as easily as pulling a pin out. And at least in my situation, removing the bolt allowed me to remove the hitch no problem, so the receiver tube wasn't damaged or permanently deformed. Win win!
Thank you, I was looking at getting a trailer hitch and I was nervous because there was only one pinhole and now I know that I can put on an anti-rattle device.
I’ve been towing for 60+years and I never thought of this. That’s great, thanks!
I’m a welder/ fabricator and have built many trailers , tow hitches and tons of devices that use the receiver as a platform for winches , vises and every thing and that’s a nice cure for the lash on all these things that some how escaped me, ( I’m ashamed to say)
Great short videos
Get a square U bolt and a piece of flat iron. Should work the same. I don't think the bevel part is necessary.
@@WW5RM yes, the plate is necessary for the stability. These thing sell for $10 on Amazon. Why bother to make one?
Your videos always have a high probability of adding value to my life. I've been having this very issue! I'll be getting one soon. Thanks Mr Notap!!
Impressively simple, clever and effective! Thanks!
I was skeptical but I think I’ll get one.
They work really well. It will eliminate the noise.
This was really really helpful for me thank you so so much
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I drilled a hole on top of the hitch. I then welded a nut over the hole. Then I use a bolt to tighten as needed. In the past, I just wrapped the end with electrical tape to stop the sound.
Yes that would work well also! Thanks.
Instead of welding a bolt you could tap the hitch where you drilled the hole. Great idea
This thing sell for $10 on Amazon. Why bother?
Eres un chingón me quito el sombrero
I see people talking about using this with the bolts up for ease of installation and to avoid the chain contact you mentioned. However, bolts down like you did is best. The other way pulls the hitch up which puts the tongue weight on the anti-rattle clamp rather than the receiver. This makes it more likely to work itself loose.
100% correct!!
This may be what you want with a WDH though.
@@derekblackwell3189 this is an anti rattle clamp not a weight distributing hitch. The proper way to install is bolts down.
@@Dan-oz4qb right, but when using a weight distribution hitch, it pushes the hitch bar up in the receiver. So you would want to install this so that it continues to hold the hitchbar at an upward angle so when you hit bumps etc it doesn’t allow it to go down. I’m aware this isn’t a wdh hitch. It prevents movement which I still get with the wdh installed.
Thanks for the tip! I tow a 16 cargo gonna dump that rattle
Another great tip! Also adds some theft protection for the hitch. Mine was stolen last week after a year of being on my truck.
Thanks Walmart parking lot.
Love it!! Cool tip for the key magnet too!!
Now if I see a white Rav4 with Chris Notap plate on it towing a trailer, I know where to find the key!
Yeah some secrets are best kept to one self! =]
Ordered mine today.
Wow that’s very clever. 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
I just love how you say hit the dinger
That's good feedback!!
*_Tongue in cheek_* For shame Mr Notap! That's something I think you could have invented and made easily as you have done so many times on your ingenious channel.
Thanks so much for this video, it's short and right to the point, thanks!
Your one smart man love your vids
Simple, yet brilliant.
I wouldn’t advise hiding a key like that because I lost one when I ran over a small stick and when I pulled over the key was gone
I have had this key on this trailer for 25 years! It has never fallen off. Of course it has to be a neodymium magnet. They are much stronger than those regular black ones plus it needs to be on a flat surface.
Chris Notap well best of luck to you but I just haven’t had very good luck
chris pls do a vid about juuling for a month science says its worse then vaping and it contains more nicotine
Dont leave your key in an obvious place near the hitch, find a spot you know but not easy for others to find. Awsome video thank you
To the trailer owner it’s obvious. To the thief it’s not.
Great tip. That noise is super annoying!
Great idea, looks easy to make.
Merci mec👍
I got one but on my Renegade the Hitch is so wide and little room to for the bar in. I may need to install upside down so plate is on top. Will try both ways. Wish they made a simple wedge or sleeve that can be tapped in and held in place by the pintle pin. The tolerances on these receivers are too big. If they were made, maybe 1/8" wider it would be a tighter fit. Thanks. No directions with mine so looking to see how others installed theirs
Nice
Thanks!!
Love ur vids there so useful
Thanks for that!!
Great tip 👍 thanks
Does it matter which way the plate faces? Yours is mounted the same as the manufacturer’s instructions. Most that I have seen on UA-cam and on line mount it with the angled side facing the opposite direction. I’m about to order a couple of these.
I don't think it matters. You'll know when you install it which way looks best. Bottom line is it will work both ways.
and goes on without a hitch!
this helped so much thanks :)
Get a Hayman Reese silent hitch pin. It’s so much easier, does a lot better job and is keyed locked for anti theft.
I love neodymium magnets. We used to call them rare earth magnets.
Yes I love them too. They are so much more useful than the black type fridge magnets.
Thieves know to look for both car keys and security keys on trailers mate. Ask any marine slip ramp place and they will tell you that nearly everyone leaves their car keys stored on the car wheels or hiden on the trailer and are easy targets. I know this because I did it with my car keys when I was out on the boat and instead of moving just my empty trailer they moved the entire car and trailer, which I was a bit annoyed at tbh but was told they do it to teach people a lesson as well as move the trailer.
That’s just a unistrut u-bolt beam clamp. You can get one at Home Depot for $4 in the electrical section.
Can you send the link?
Home Depot Model# ZU501EG-10 - Internet# 202077398
My store has 28 in stock. One caveat for other users: this particular part from Home Depot wIll ONLY work on 1.25" receiver hitches, not 2" receiver hitches.
1 st like love the vids by the way
These things are a lot cheaper these days. Used to be $25. You can also use a $5 muffler clamp.
I just put the hitch rattler upside ++++ PLEASE REPLY. ++++
down from what you have shown. I have a
cargo. carrier. Have I done it wrong?
If the head bolts were facing down
it was difficult for me to reach.
The weight of the trailer naturally pulls the hitch down. By putting it upside down you are working against its natural tendency. It will still work but will probably loosen itself.
I just drove a stinger in between the pipes.
Damn nice
Like the trailer hitch bracket, don't like the idea of a key stuck to my trailer with a magnet. Why not just hide the key inside your truck or glovebox, maybe a big pothole is enough to pop that magnet and key off the trailer.
Truck glovebox works too. I've had this on my trailer for 30 years now! Bumpy roads, city dumps, highways, potholes and it has never come off. If one of my brothers borrows the trailer, they know where the key is. A Neodymium magnet is the only magnet you should use though and JB weld.
@@chrisnotap 30 years. Can't argue with that. Idea works if someone else is borrowing your trailer and your not there, just hope no one on UA-cam doesn't live close to you, as you may have given away your hiding spot. Thanks again for the video, I just finished making my hitch clamp. Now just have to wait for winter to end.
Not on her side by any means; BUT WHAT IF, she works 2 jobs and doesn’t get home until late from her 2nd job as a waitress and when she tries to park in her parking spot, there’s someone in it! Maybe she’s fed up with all the re res in this country today!!
Made smoke videos
Hi
Hey!!
You should do an experiment with cigars and chewing tobacco on the mouth
You get under arrest, driving this on a German Highway ! 😳
Really. Why?
@@chrisnotap Because of the german Straßenverkehrsordnung. 🇩🇪 Put a Trailer on this ...thing.... and you can walk if the Police stops you.
I just wrap my hitch in gaffing tape. Enough to where it barely fits in the receiver. Problem solved. 23 cents
Hi lol
Hey man!!
Please do what happens to your lungs after a month of juul and hookah