Gen-Y Spartan Shock Absorbing Gooseneck Coupler - 5" Offset - 2-5/16" Ball - 3.5K TW

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What's up everybody, Adam here with me etrailer, today, we have a Spartan shock absorbing gooseneck coupler. So, this is going to come in two of a kind, we're gonna have 3.5K and also 5.5K, which is what we have right here. Basically having a shock absorbing hitch is the best. one it's gonna, kind of prevent all that chucking that you feel, chucking is when your trailer kind of surges, and it kind of surges your truck forward and you can feel it in the cab, also with the porpoising, porpoising is when you hit bumps, and the front end of your truck just keeps bouncing up and down and just kind of uneven, and it's not really something you want to feel whenever you're going down the road, but also it's just gonna prolong the life of a lot of your components, You know, just a little bit of shock absorbing technology here, is gonna increase your ride quality a lot whenever you're going down the road. We have a lot of specs to go over but first, let's show you the Spartan in action. So we went ahead and took this thing through our test scores, and if you guys look right here, you'll see how it's really flexing.

So, I wish you guys we're in the cab with me, I have driven a lot of different goosenecks and with airbags on the back, it's usually really, really rough, but as that flex starts to happen, it really doesn't transfer a lot that shock in there, It felt super buttery, whenever I was going over the speed bumps. And we went over a lot of them, so it's kind of an extreme case here at etrailer with our test scores, we didn't see a whole lot of flex compared to some of the lighter duty couplers, but you could 100% feel it with it completely loaded up. Our four different bolts right here, are really what's going to set this apart from any other coupler that you may be looking at. Basically what's going on here is, we have a circular shaft going through the center, and we're going to have a bunch of cylinder type rubber pieces that go all the way around that shaft, and then there's a square shaft that goes around all that. Basically as it starts to torque, the center shaft starts to move, but then the rubber on the outside of that, and with the shape of the outer tube, is gonna kind of resist that.

So as it starts to do that in torque, that rubber is really what's taking all of that road shock away. And that's pretty much how it works, that's really how this thing really sets it apart from, any of the other non shock absorbing goosenecks you may see on our website, Should you go with the 5.5K or the 3.5K Well, we can do some calculations to figure that out. one way of doing it, is we can take the gross trailer weight of our whole entire trailer, and we typically take 15 to 25% of that weight. Once you find out your pin weight, what you can do is you're gonna take that number and times it by two. So if you have 2,750 pounds of tongue weight, times it by two, and it's going to be around 5,000 pounds.

we times it by two you because we want to have 50% of what our coupler can handle. So this way we're not going to be, not really utilizing the shock absorbing technology and we're also not going to be overloading it either. And here's a little gauge that'll show you, as you can see we're right at the minimum, but again, we don't have everything we usually have loaded up in here, so once we load all that stuff up, it's right in that sweet spot so we get a lot more flex and a lot smoother ride. We went over how it sets it apart from all the other, gooseneck couplers that you have options on our website for, we also showed you in an action and we helped you figure out which one's going to be best for you, So now let's just go over some specs. One is make sure that whatever is on your trailer, we want to make sure that it's going to fit a diameter of four inches on this tube.

So this two's about four inches in diameter, We're gonna have five different holes, and they are kind of offset, some are here, some are here. So depending on your setup, you're going to be able to get it adjusted. And we're going to have an overall vertical travel of about five and a half inches. it does have a nice powder coated finish, I love the look of this. I've literally seen a lot of different ball mounts, goosenecks and everything with this same powder coat finish, and they last forever. It looks good. It's going to resist against all that rust and corrosion and stuff like that. One thing about the Spartan, if I we're to compare it to some other shock absorbing hitch, we do have the Pegasus. So the Pegasus, the only difference between these two is, just going to be the offset. So the offset is from the center here of your tube, to the center of your ball. And for this one, it's going to be about five inches of offset. So that's going to be kind of nice, just so we can maybe keep a fuel tank in here, maybe a toolbox or something like that. The Pegasus is going to have 11 inch offset. So if you really want to set your trailer back a little bit farther, you can go with the Pegasus. Pegasus also has a 4.5K option. So, it's all up to you, but they're all going to work the same. It is going to be used with a two and five 16 inch ball does not come with the ball, but it does come with the pin right here, and all you really got to do to get it undone, is just take this pin, go out like this and then pull it. Really simple, comes with the pin, and actually comes with one more pin up top, and I really liked this one because it's a nice stainless steel pin that goes right through, so you don't have to worry about providing your own. Has a little clip too, which is nice. And it's one of these, which is easy to pull off and it's not going to come off on its own, so I really liked that. So you get everything you really need with it, but if you need anything else like safety chains and stuff, that's not gonna come with it, but we do have them here at each trailer. But all in all, shock absorbing hitches, I'm telling you this coupler is going to increase your ride quality a lot, if you're on the road for longer than an hour with a gooseneck trailer, just get one of these you'll thank me later. And that's a pretty much it, when I look at the Gen-Y Spartan shock absorbing, gooseneck coupler..