Front up 1/2". Tons on bars. Bags help?
Hi I've been adjusting and readjusting a Reese dual cam to work with a ram 1500 and a 30' bullet. This is as close as I can get: On the 6th link - as far as I can go: Front of truck moves up ...
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I guess you are enroute to Seattle by now and hope you don't have any issues or incidents related to the WDH.
The first thing that is mandatory is a good read of the sticky in this forum on how to set up a WDH which includes excellent info. on setting up a dual cam hitch. Once you have a handle on what to do, it's not particularly difficult to set up a dual cam and get it dialed in. It needs some patience though. Once dialed in, these WDHs are amazing.
You are guesstimating on the tongue weight and could be okay or not. It's very doubtful you need bars rated over 1,000 lbs. You may need 800 lb bars if anything. With your TT and 1,000 lb bars, you *should* have no trouble in transferring adequate back onto the steer axle. Guesstimating the TW is not a good idea, not only for the bar rating, but for the payload capacity of the TV. Also, over-sizing spring bars can damage a frame in some cases.
You can't go by the dry tongue weight, period and it's best to est. by using GVWR. GVWR of the TT is 7590 lbs and the TW should not be over 15%, or 1138 lbs at the upper range of the normal TW %. Even up that high, 1000 lb bars should be okay. TW is more likely to be 12-13%, and at 13% would be 987 lbs, so 1K bars look okay. If you have a forward FW tank and tow with it full, that can raise TW significantly (an exterior photo seems to indicate a forward tank).
You seem to have something wrong with the number of links under tension. Ensure that you have studied the dual cam setup info, available on this forum in detail. Getting the head/bar angle correct is very important.
What is the payload capacity rating of the Ram 1500? If inadequate, no amount of adjusting or installation of air bags will make things work out. What you need to do is load up the truck as you would have for camping, along with family and pets and go weigh the truck and subtract that from the door pillar GVWR rating. If you've added say 1K lbs of total payload and the trailer has a TW of 1K lbs, you could be well over-loaded.
Towing overloaded and on top of that, not having the WDH adjusted correctly can be very unsafe.
The first thing that is mandatory is a good read of the sticky in this forum on how to set up a WDH which includes excellent info. on setting up a dual cam hitch. Once you have a handle on what to do, it's not particularly difficult to set up a dual cam and get it dialed in. It needs some patience though. Once dialed in, these WDHs are amazing.
You are guesstimating on the tongue weight and could be okay or not. It's very doubtful you need bars rated over 1,000 lbs. You may need 800 lb bars if anything. With your TT and 1,000 lb bars, you *should* have no trouble in transferring adequate back onto the steer axle. Guesstimating the TW is not a good idea, not only for the bar rating, but for the payload capacity of the TV. Also, over-sizing spring bars can damage a frame in some cases.
You can't go by the dry tongue weight, period and it's best to est. by using GVWR. GVWR of the TT is 7590 lbs and the TW should not be over 15%, or 1138 lbs at the upper range of the normal TW %. Even up that high, 1000 lb bars should be okay. TW is more likely to be 12-13%, and at 13% would be 987 lbs, so 1K bars look okay. If you have a forward FW tank and tow with it full, that can raise TW significantly (an exterior photo seems to indicate a forward tank).
You seem to have something wrong with the number of links under tension. Ensure that you have studied the dual cam setup info, available on this forum in detail. Getting the head/bar angle correct is very important.
What is the payload capacity rating of the Ram 1500? If inadequate, no amount of adjusting or installation of air bags will make things work out. What you need to do is load up the truck as you would have for camping, along with family and pets and go weigh the truck and subtract that from the door pillar GVWR rating. If you've added say 1K lbs of total payload and the trailer has a TW of 1K lbs, you could be well over-loaded.
Towing overloaded and on top of that, not having the WDH adjusted correctly can be very unsafe.
