Help with hooking up

theoldwizard1 wrote:

mkctome wrote:
I am a 65 yr old female, just bought my first RV. The trouble is, I know HOW to hook it up for towing, but I am not strong enough to lift the ball mount up to put on the truck.

The rest of you need to READ with better comprehension !

An electric jack will lift the tongue of the trailer, but not the ball mount. If it is an adjustable ball mount for a 2-1/2" receiver these things are ridiculously heavy !

Once the ball mount is installed, it should not have to be removed, unless you are a klutz like me and keep whacking it with you shin !

mkctome wrote:
And I don't have the strength to attach the control bars correctly.

The lever they gave you are too short. Get a piece of pipe that will slip over lever and make it longer. Probably need to DOUBLE the length.

Finding someone to help you insert the hitch head into the receiver is a once a season issue...yes, you can probably find someone to help with that. It will take 30 sec and not much can go wrong. Worst case, wave a $5 bill at a passing teenager and I'm sure they would be happy to do it.

Attaching the WDH bars, shouldn't take brute force. With an electric jack on the trailer, once the ball is hooked up and locked in, simply lift the front of the trailer, Eventually, it will be high enough that the bars will go into place with no significant effort.

If you can lift 10lbs, you should have no problem hooking up the WDH unless you want to pull the ball out of the receiver every time you stop.