You're faced with the ongoing dilemma of too much trailer and too little truck. The ultimate, and safer, solution for you, your family and others, is a bigger truck.
You can improve on what you have but you have, and need, to spend some money. The Fastway E2 is what I would call an entry type hitch for a light trailer pulled with a proper truck. It doesn't have the "oomph" to handle what you have.
I've pulled my trailer, which is larger than yours, with a Ram 1500. I use an Equalizer hitch. I also installed Airlift 1000 air bags on the truck. Upgrade the P rated passenger tires on the truck. If you do all of the above you will have a much better towing experience. It won't be the best experience but it will be about as good as you can get given the truck/trailer combo you have.
I am attaching a copy that has one of the best descriptions I've found between the Fastway E2 and the Equalizer. The Equalizer will probably be a little more than double the cost of the Fastway but will work at least twice as good....and it won't cost the price of a Hensley.
The copy of the explanation:
""I have investigated the Fast Way hitch a few years ago when it came out on the market. A few things to your question.
First some background.
http://www.fastwaytrailer.com/e2/
Fastway is a Division of Progress Manufacturing. Scroll to the very bottom of that web page and look where they link you. Progress makes the Equal-I-zer. When I saw the E2 and the L brackets they were using I said, WoW that is the same L bracket setup Equal-I-zer uses. Then after digging I found out why. The engineering groups share parts and concepts.
The E2 I "believe", do not know for fact, was developed and marketed under Fastway as a lower cost alternative to the higher end Equal-
I-zer. The price competition is pretty fierce in the WD hitch market. Reese has done the same thing in recent years creating products to compete at a lower cost then their top of the line Straight Line Dual Cam.
The E2 is a good hitch. As far as a weight distribution is concerned, it is very good as is most any other WD hitch. It does not have any new revaluation on how to apply WD.
The L brackets create high friction on the WD bars and create a level of anti sway control. By having high friction at the L brackets it helps stiffen the connection between the TT and the TV to resist sway forces acting on the TT.
There is a significant difference between the E2 and the Equal-I-zer. The Equal-I-zer has a more involved hitch head, cost more to make and in turn provides a higher level of anti sway control. On the Equal-I-zer the WD bars fit into a pivoting trunnion socket. The pivot bolt of the trunnion socket can be tightened where it pinches the trunnion socket top and bottom. When the trunnion socket is tightened, it creates very high friction in these pivots points when it combines the large WD forces pulling up on the WD bars. So you get ultra high friction at the hitch head plus high friction at the L brackets to create more resistance to sway.
The E2 only creates anti sway friction at the L brackets where the Equal-I-zer has both the L brackets and the hitch head.
The difference between round bar and trunnion bar for the most part is sizing. Trunnion bar often features higher rated WD bars for higher TW's. There is also a clearance difference. The round bar hitch hangs down further at the hitch head and in low riding TT's it can some times bump the ground. Both round bar and trunnion bar are common in the WD hitch world. Both do WD using the same concept however some brands have have more features with trunnion bar.
Now is the E2 a good for for your camper and TV?
As far as WD, it will do as good as most any other brand in obtaining proper WD on the TV.
As far as anti sway, it will be less effective than the Reese DC or the Equal-I-zer.
The question comes down to, will it be good enough for anti sway control? You have not given enough info for us to help guide you on that. Any of the high or ultra high friction anti sway control hitches will not guarantee they will solve your TV and TT sway problems. If you call and and ask that question to the hitch manufacture the response will be something like this. Our hitch is a good tool to help be part of an anti away program. It has limitations and can only correct so much.
What your TV is and the tires on it are a large variable for controlling a TT.
Your TT, is another large variable on how well it is balanced for loaded tongue weight in relation to loaded gross weight and other construction characterizes.
So where does this leave you? Tell us some more about your TV and TT and we can supply an opinion based on our experiences. If you are looking for the highest level of anti sway control in the friction type WD hitches, you will need to spend more money. That is not to say the E2 will not do a good job for you. ""
With the 2500 I don't worry about semis etc. and can drive with one hand 90% of the time.
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