Falcon
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A while back, I went to the track after I pulled the tonneau, tailgate, spare tire, rear seats and had a mostly empty tank. I was on street tires so as you can imagine, NO TRACTION... I think I calculated about 400 pounds of weight removal. What if a person were to remove all that same weight, but then hang 200 pound off the hitch? You would still be 200 pounds lighter but you would have transferred 200 pounds all the way to the rear for better traction. Even if you had to have 300 pounds on the hitch to equal the same traction affects of full weight, you are still 100 pounds lighter overall. Wouldn't be very difficult to do. Simply weld a bench bar end (the old kind that have a screw on lock, not the spring clamps) to a ball hitch and you can add as many plates as you need. You could drill multiple holes along the threaded bar for using a clip after the screw clamp to make sure it doesn't unscrew. Thoughts? Is this completely ridiculous or is there reasoning behind my madness? I haven't done any web research on this so I am not sure if it has already been done or disproven for any reason.