Ideal for the rigors of off-road towing, this fully articulating coupler inserts into your trailer's 2" receiver and attaches to the included 2" ball, which mounts on your vehicle.
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Today we're going to take a look at the Ark trailer side articulating off-road coupler for 2" receivers. This coupler is ideal for off-road towing. It's a fully articulating coupler that'll insert into your trailers 2" receiver, and attaches to this included 2" hitch ball which would be mounted on your tow vehicle's ball mount. Most of the off-road trailers will use a 2" hitch receiver on the tongue of the trailer, and this articulating couplers would install into that 2" hitch receiver. It's ideal for the rigors of off-road towing. Does use a quick hitch locking system, which saves you time during hookup.
I'm going to demonstrate that. So what we're going to do is install it into this, have an example here of a 2" by 2" hitch receiver opening.What you'll do is just take your coupler and slide it all the way in till you get the hitch pin holes to line up. Once you got the hitch pin hole lined up, go ahead and put your pin through there. Put your clip on there, and now you'd be all ready to go. You can see there's an articulating feature.
It articulates this way. The quick hitch locking system is pretty nice because what you can do is here's the ball that'll be on your ball mount. It's showing unlocked. So right here, if I turn this, you'll see this red area that says unlock. That means you're ready to go onto the hitch ball.
So what you'll do is align this coupling head over the tow ball and then lower that head over the tow ball completely. Once it's completely onto the tow ball, what you'll do is just raise the safety catch lever here and you can see that it engages the auto locking. So the ball's automatically locked in there, and then it releases it to allow it to articulate this way. And then you can even articulate this way. So when you're doing your off-road trailering, it's not going to come disconnected.And then to remove it, all you have to do is push up on this safety catch lever, twist this over to where it'll say unlocked, and it latches into place and unlocks from the ball.
And now you're all ready to hook up again. You do want to always make sure that when it releases that the screen that says locked would be showing before you do any towing. It does have grease Zerk fittings on all the moving components. There's two right here. You can see that you're going attach your grease gun to lubricate it to ensure the couplers lubricate it for anything and there's even a Zerk fitting right here to lubricate the movement for it right here. This is a nice steel construction. It's tough enough to handle any environment. It is J684 compliant, has a maximum towing capacity of 5,000 pounds, and the ball is also stamped at the top 5,000 pounds.Last thing I want to do is just give you the measurement. Let me turn it this way so you can see from the center of this hitch pin hole to the center of the ball coupler. If we go from the center right here to the hitch pin holes are 13-3/4". But again, just to demonstrate one more time, it's all ready to be coupled, so you just lower this down over the ball. Once it gets completely down over the ball, just push that up and then you can see the green showing, it means it's locked and you're all ready to go just like that. That should do it for the review on the Ark trailer side articulating off-road coupler for 2" receivers.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (17 Customer Reviews)
Ideal for the rigors of off-road towing, this fully articulating coupler inserts into your trailer's 2" receiver and attaches to the included 2" ball, which mounts on your vehicle.
For functionality this hitch is exceptional! I do however have a couple of observation that I have experienced using mine. First off it is a well engineered piece of serious equipment with just a couple of weak points. I had no issues myself but when my son-in-law returned my trailer the internal spring had come loose inside and was actually causing resistance in the lock feature’s rotation. It was easy enough to disassemble and reinsert the spring but after looking at it, I’m surprised if it’s not something that happens quite often. My second issue is that the plastic rest that holds the hitch flat while connecting did not hold up. It’s cracked in half.. not sure if it had a weak point or if the sun got to it. If you are working alone.. it’s kind of important. I’ve gotten a ton of comments and I’m sure that I have sold a few along the way. Zero rattled when on the road!
Jenny N - 11/23/2021Just installed the tested it around the ranch seem to work well. Only issue is that there is no way to lock the receiver.
I was looking for an off-road coupler. I read the pro's and con's of the two better known brands. I had concerns over getting my trailer to tow level behind my rig as those other brands didn't seem very adjustable. When I saw the Ark coupler, I was pleased. It has all the range of motion for full articulation, yet it uses a standard ball which means I can use any drop/rise hitch I want to get my trailer leveled right. Since I don't have to purchase a specialty hitch for the vehicle side, the overall cost of this is less than its competitors. The Ark coupler is heavy duty. It is not light weight at all. It seems to be very well made. I have only done some very basic testing, but it hasn't had any issue with binding. I like it.
I'm excited to try it out. It looks very well made and heavy duty
well mads love it
Great Service
As usual the customer service was excellent with George going out of his way to see that my order shipped promptly as it was time sensitive to say the least.. Tfank you
On time and un damaged!
Great product, shipped all the way to Hawaii within a week!
looks as advertised!
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