Lost my Doohickey Bar, HELP!!
Ok, so I towed down 3 hours to see family and go to a funeral and overnighted in my nieces back yard. Got myself in a hurry to unhook and set up and I am pretty sure I left the bar laying on the bumpe...
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southernkilowatt wrote:Ron3rd wrote:camp-n-family wrote:
You don't really need the "doohickey bar" (snap up lever). Hook it up, then jack the tongue up. You should be able to jack it enough to easily lift the bars onto the brackets by hand, then lower the tongue jack.
What hitch is it? I think this is what you want.
Good advice, latch the tongue onto the ball then raise the jack up and you should be able to snap the bracket up with a long screwdriver. No need to muscle the brackets up if you raise the tongue after latching the coupler. In fact,if you raise the tongue up enough, you can do it with your hand. That's how I would do it on my old EZ Lift WD hitch.
Thanks for the advice but mine wont quite make it. I hook up and raise the camper back up until the back of the truck has come up several inches and its still not quite high enough. It was all I could do to put them on by hand after I discovered I had lost the Doohickey bar. Maybe its not set up right, but I think it would be better too tight then too loose. I do have another question though, and I will make another post for that, but do you grease the bars?
Thanks!
Not sure what hitch you've got. But if you've got the Equalizer, you grease the sockets where they swing on the plate on the hitch head. If you have the type with chains, you grease the sockets where the bars snap in.
