etrailer | Reese Friction Sway Control Kit Review
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Hi there heavy haulers. Today we're going to be taking a look at Reese's Friction Sway Control. Reese's Friction Sway Control is going to mount between your trailer's frame and your ball mount. And is going to provide a dampening layer to help prevent sway. It does this using the friction material located inside.You have a bar that slides against the friction material on the inside. So as you turn, this extends and retracts, but it's got a constant pressure on it.
So what this does, is it in order for it to turn, force must be exerted here in order for this bar to extend.So, if you have any cross winds that's hitting your trailer that would normally cause it to sway, here that wind now not only uses the force it has to move the trailer, but it also has to use that force to extend this arm.And this is in here pretty stout. You'll notice when you tighten this thing down, if it wasn't on here, you wouldn't be able to pull this out by hand. You can't just separate these. So, it's quite a bit of friction method applies in there that keeps your trailer from moving back and forth and keeps it in the direction of travel that you're going.When I take my pop-up camper with me, I noticed what I'm going down the highway that I often feel like a looseness in the back end. And, I've done some research and looked into it.
And I had issues with sway on my trailer. Ways of correcting this are re-adjusting the weight on your trailer to put more of that weight on the tongue. And that did help it out some, but to fully eliminate it, I was able to use Reese's Friction Sway Control, and that puts additional friction on the trailer to prevent it from going back and forth.We're going to test drive a real quick now without it, and then we're going to hook it all up and then drive it again to see the differences. First, we'll take it over our uneven bumps. And here in the parking lot, it's a little hard to tell because the whole truck and everything is kind of going all over the place.So, speed bumps in this aren't the best real-world conditions.
It's more often when you're going on the road and you hit just a single pothole and that causes the sway to begin. And the problem with sway is that if you speed up, it just gets worse. So, you almost have to come to a stop just to calm it down. So this issue with it getting worse as you're driving, especially if you're going faster, it just starts to spiral out of control and it can eventually lead to difficulties, keeping control of the vehicle.So, for your safety, your best bet is to just slow down and stop, until you're able to correct the issue. Now, we're going to take it out on the highway, because this is going to be more of your real world conditions.
You're going to notice sway mostly at higher speeds.So, now I'm up about 40 miles an hour. And once I get up over the speed is when I start to notice it. Whenever I have a dip in the road, you can almost start to feel it in the back. Want to shift back and forth. And I have to up here in the front, control it. And it kind of makes you uneasy driving.I'm constantly checking my mirrors to make sure we're still on road. And that there's nobody around me because I get worried that the sway could potentially get out of hand, and you don't want these worries when you're driving down the road. You want to just get there and not feel stressed on the way. Now we've got our friction sway control installed. We're going to take it back out on the test scores and on the highway to see our differences.First in the test course here, we're back in the bumps. And really, I can't tell too much difference here at low speeds, you don't really get sway. So, it doesn't affect it too much. The faster you're going, the more sway starts to get out of hand.So, once we get on the highway, I'm sure that's where we're going to start noticing some big differences. Now, we're getting out on the highway. We're going to get up to speed. I normally notice it up over about 40 miles an hour is when it starts to occur. So let's get up there and see what we feel now.All right. And you hit 40 now and so far, no issues. The sway definitely seems to be eliminated, excited to hit the same bolt by then, before that kind of gave me a little bit of a scare there when we we're driving without it. But with it now, I can let go with the wheel. I don't have the fear that I did before. Then all of a sudden it's just going to start swaying and I'm going to have to start compensating for it.It's act
Great video... Excellent up close visuals of all components and very good explanation of after install setup.
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That was a very informative video. You did a good job explaining all I needed to know. Thanks.
Thank you for the feedback Ron. We will pass this along to the installer. If you would like to read more about this friction sway control, check it out on our website in the following link.
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It towed like an arrow without the friction control as well.
We love hearing this! Thank you for sharing this feedback with us!
Thanks so much for being so thorough! We just installed this on our trailer... we’ve been towing without one for two years and it makes a huge difference! Our only learning curve is the coupler latch- it’s not quite as simple as before and now it seems we have to raise the jack while coupled in order to get our coupler lock to line up? Does this sound right? Thanks so much for your insight!
There will be a bit more tension on the coupler if you install the sway control before you latch the coupler.
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