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Hi there, Grey Wolf owners. Today, on our 2017 Forest River Grey Wolf, we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install Blue Ox's SwayPro weight distribution system. All right, guys, now that we've got our weight distribution on, we're gonna hit our test course. We have removed the arms out of the weight distribution system, so we're just sitting on the ball, and we're basically as if you had it hooked up to a regular ball at this point. We don't have the assistance from the weight distribution arms. So, let's see what it feels like here.

All right, and right when we take off, boy, you can feel, you can just like, the momentum of the truck started to kinda make the truck bounce up and down a little bit. So, you can definitely feel there's some weight on the back. Boy, when we hit those bumps you definitely feel the trailer hit the bump, and the truck kind of bounce a little. Yeah, you really feel the trailer when it hits the bump. More so, than I feel the truck hit the bump.

All right, we'll see how she feels here in the turns just slightly on the brakes there. But it seemed to handle the turn decently there. We're not really going fast enough to cause any sway here in the parking lot. We can feel, kind of how the weight distribution is working. We definitely feel the weight of this thing, kind of, up and down, a little bouncing there on the back of this thing.

So, the weight distribution system's definitely gonna help out there. With sway, you really don't notice the weight distribution properties until you get up to speed, up over about 50, 60 miles an hour. You can really start to notice a big benefit of the anti-sway properties of the weight distribution system there. Boy, yeah, yeah, that put, on a lot of moments here, when you hit a certain spot or a turn, when the trailer's moving behind you, you can really feel the weight of that trailer. And this is what our weight distribution system looks like when it's installed.

It's somewhat like, your traditional weight distribution systems and where you have bars that run down, and attached to clamps that are located on the frame. What's different about the SwayPro, than your traditional weight distribution systems, is that, it is a chain-driven mechanism that offers sway reduction. Many of the ones that have chains, don't provide any sway reduction. But, this one's able to, thanks to the rotating mechanisms here, that keep a constant pressure on our system here, and that pressure, always keeping it under pressure keeps our trailer from being able to move. It holds that pressure on there to reduce the sway, in pretty much, most situations. Many of the friction-style sway controls that are out there, will actually have a material on there like a friction material, and it rides against, like a bracket piece that's located on here. Usually like a little L-bracket, with another little L-bracket on top to hold it in place. With some of the friction sway control, weight distribution systems. You have to unhook before you can back up. But with the SwayPro here, we don't need to worry about that at all. We can back up just like normal. Don't have to get out and do any unhooking. So it's really, really nice for the ease of use, is the kind of the biggest thing that I like about this system. You get sway control, and it's extremely easy to install and to hook up. It's designed to work in two integers. So, you'll get your head portion here that goes into your truck, works with a two-inch hitch. The mechanism, the shank that it comes with here, offers drop or rise positions. We've got it set up in the rise position and you can get a maximum of eight inches of rise out of it, and for its drop, you get a maximum of two inches of drop. And you might be thinking, "Hey, well why is it so small in the drop And that's because of this component here. If you look wherever we attach the component the ball's way up here. So, we don't get quite as much drop because of the height of that ball. The head of the mechanism that attaches to our shank, has the tilt pre-built into it, which makes the setup and installation so much faster. One of the competitors out there, or different distribution systems, require you to put a small pin in it and you have to adjust the amount of washers on it, for the ti