Weigh Safe Adjustable 6” Drop hitch long term Review 

Great review video! It is always good to find long term reviews to see how products hold up over time. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the review. My dad taught me a little trick to stop a hitch from rattling around. Just drill and tap a hole in the bottom of your receiver behind pin ( between spare and pin) Then run a bolt into it and it will wedge the hitch in place so it doesn’t bounce up and down. Then just Cary that size wrench in your truck incase you need to swap it out.

I left a steel reese hitch in my truck for about two years. When the hitch was new it had very little play in it (opposite of this hitch in which you complain about). Well, when I went to remove it, it had rusted inside solid and took weeks of penetrating oil, heating torches, and beating it out from the opposite side with a sledgehammer!!! I learned my lesson with that many years ago. I bought a stainless steel replacement, and always keep the inside oiled. So... This hitch having plenty of play? No problem at all... This will never corrode into place and give you the problems I experienced. It's a trailer hitch, on a truck... It's not a sports car. Having play and some clanking noises while towing a trailer is just commonplace and to be expected. I would rather have this play than have the hitch rust solid where it can't be removed. Check out pintle hitch stye and now you're talking about some serious clanking and noise while hauling a trailer!!! Thanks for the longterm review -- Always good to see how well a product holds up over time.

Thanks for the long term review, been wanting to purchase one of these but was concerned that it would have a lot of play in it. You covered everything well.

Good to see a long term follow up review, as I’m looking between this and gen-y and it definitely helps in my decision making. It’s nice to know about the rattle of the actual ball as well. Thanks!

Great review! I’m wanting to buy this for my new truck.

There's a device now that is U shaped. It wraps around the hitch and reciever (where they come together) at an angle and locks in. It completely eliminates the rattle and is simple and easy to add on and remove.

Thanks for the review, Just bought one .. 2 1/2 shank with the scale

I own one and use it almost everyday pulling a 24' v nose trailer. I find it very reliable. Be satisfied with mine. I also bought the 1 7/8 hitch. I have all 3 sizes and other than having to add a little grafite for lube no problems.

All or most drop down hitches will rattle around like that. Here in Australia, most of our tow hitches receivers have 1 or 2 locking bolts on them. So after you insert your tow hitch, tighten locking bolts down firmly onto your hitch and this takes out all of the rattle in that area. It may also need a locking bolt for the towball as well.

I wrap duck tape on my hitch and it works well. It removes the rattle but it is hard to get off and with age you get the glue residue on everything.

Glad I watched this video, I think I’m going to go with b&w tow and stow instead of the weigh safe now. Seems to be better built and less play in the overall hitch. Check out a hitch clamp. It will take all the play out of the receiver. Won’t be a solution for the play in the ball etc though.

Great review!

That square adaptor goes in the receiver first, then you put in the insert. Works perfect when used properly.

Great demo

Seriously try this, spray a thin coat of spray can rubberized coating or truckbed liner, try it and if theres more room do a second coat rub a little grease on it after you get it snug fitting and voila! You can do the same to the bottom of the ball, the rubberized works better on this as it scrapes off excess easily. Tapelines make it neat.

Very good to hear a longer term perspective. I just got the same on without the scale and it seems very well built at first glance. I saw some of the reviews about the scale failing and I have a manual tongue scale I can use. So I opted to get the one without the scale. Does yours have the stainless ball?

So they design it to be free and have wiggle when not under load. That lets you adjust it. When you apply load it tightens up

If I get the one with the balls on both ends could I turn it upside in the receiver? My truck is kinda low and I scrape my ball hitch on everything

I have a 2.5 inch by 8 inch drop, Mine is also loose in the receiver which is the only thing I don’t like, other than that it’s a great hitch

Does the 6 inch drop of the hitch interfere with your ground clearance under a load ? And Is Your Truck Stock? I Have a Frontier 4X4 SV Stock, I Only Have 9 inch ground clearance from bottom of the drop bar without load. Have you experienced much scraping When traveling over high or low spots on roads ?

Buy a quiet hitch clamp, I use it all the time, works great with no slop in the receiver

Thanks for the review. Seems your biggest gripe is the rattling in the receiver (which is "normal"), but your anti-rattle device is not really a part of the Weigh Safe review per se. As at least one reply below indicates, if you get the e.g. Blue Ox anti-rattle, that is 2 U-bolts that bolt on outside AFTER you insert the hitch. In no way shape or form does it interfere with inserting or removing the hitch. Avoid any anti-rattle solution that goes inside of the receiver such as the one you showed, duct-tape, etc.

On a side note, they make better anti-rattle clamps that are around the $10 mark on Amazon. They work better than the type you have, BUT, they are still a pain to unbolt the two nuts anytime you want to remove the hitch. I leave my hitch in year round as a way of hopefully eliminating rear end damage from distracted drivers.

I use 1 or 2 turns of black duct tape to take out the slop on the shank.

You have a link to the shim that you put in the hitch? Just got my hitch and hate the slop. Thanks

Add some anti seize around the wedge 👍🏼

I hear Alot about the scale failing. I just bought one anyway. The play like that is normal

Thanks for the review,, could u pls tell me how much apx your boat weight?

The scale blew out on mine today when a jackass didnt know how to load rock in a dump trailer and put 3/4 of the load in front of the axles. WeighSafe will rebuild the scale it it isn't working properly

I think its safe to say, the more adjustability, the more wiggle you'll have

Bruh mine has so much more play at the ball and slide it sounds crazy going down the road. Not a happy camper ill be going with a better company for sure the do not warranty this out of see it as a problem. Ill be posting a video of my hitch aswell. 100k miles on my Pulling Rv & Car hauler both under 8000#

Why not banging the sleeve first? Then put hitch into receiver

All hitches have that looseness. Once you put weight on it it’s fine.

Would you still recommend?

Talked me right out of buying one. They sure need to tighten up the tolerances on the moving parts.

I also have several Weigh Safe hitches. They do not stand behind their products or the engineering of them. Sad, because this could be a great product. I contacted them in regard to a 3 year old product, and they told me that they don't support it. WHAT????? Would not recommend to anyone !!!

Here is a link to the Hitch: amzn.to/3hQ7q5d The Anti rattle Shim: amzn.to/3qnEpo2

I wrap my hitches with duck tape so it doesn't rattle in the receiver.

Mine sat in a box for 2 years, I used it for the first time this weekend and it didn't work. Waste of money

Just about every hitch has slop in it. Nature of the beast.

For 300 couple dollars I don't think it's should act loose like thag.

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Total garbage, wait until the cross pins get galled up and you cannot get it apart or off the truck!

you're the type of guy that thinks the ramp is the proper place to reinstall your cover.