CAMCO EAZ-LIFT

Of course picture can be misleading but for starters it looks like the front end of the trailer is too high. It should be level or slightly lower in the front. Another is that it appears that the lift brackets are not directly above the u-bolts on the bars. Did the weights and measures change when you mount battery(s)? Most people do not worry that the back end drops a little. They try to get the front axle back to its original height.

Ron I am using the jack to lift the tow vehicle and trailer to hook up the chains but this is as high as I can get. I may need to drop the hitch head down one more notch?

goducks10 I have a bottom mount I think I will upload a few pictures.

Skipnchar I may have the hitch head a little two high I am going to try to lower it but it is dropping the rear of the tow vehicle a 1/2 inch and raising a 1/2 inch in the front. I am using a 1000 pound setup for this is probably closest to maximum load I will be carrying. I am uploading pics.

Moderator edit to re-size pictures to forum limit of 640px maximum size.

As usual, everybody wants to guess about links and tension. You have a lot of money invested, spend another ten to get meaningful weights to help you get a safe and comfortable setup.

How high are you jacking the rear of your truck up when you latch up? I'm a little confused by some of your comments about putting too much weight on the rear as the PURPOSE of any WD system is to REMOVE weight from the rear and switch it to the front axle and back to the trailer axle :H You should adjust the hitch so that when latched the spring bars are approximately parallel to the trailer tongue frame AND with enough weight transferred to REMOVE the excess weight from the rear which will, at the same time lower the front end by replacing the weight lost by pressing down on the rear. Usually that is accomplished by latching up about the middle of the chain.

Also consider that in order for everything to work correctly the spring bars ALSO need to be correctly sized for the trailer. Generally I recommend using 15% of the trailers GVWR (the heaviest the tongue will ever be) as the weight of the spring bars. Come as close to this weight as possible without being UNDER that weight.
Good luck / Skip

Pics?

Shouldn't really matter whether your axles are flipped or not. Same relation from the tongue to the WD head.
Does your TT have the coupler mounted on the bottom or top of the tongue? If it's on the bottom then the last link is where the spring bars will be level. You can't get the common 3 links hanging with a bottom mount coupler and still have the spring bars parallel to the tongue. I always ran on the last link with my TT and just +/- on the washers for weight transfer.

Sounds as though you need to lift the TV/TT higher before hooking up the chains.

Are you using the tongue jack to lift the TV/TT?

If so, have you tried putting a block under the tongue jack so you can lift the TV/TT higher?

Ron