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mkirsch
Jul 20, 2018Nomad II
73guna, what's your point? You trying to "catch" me?
Well okay, you got me. I don't have a Blue Ox. I also don't have the OP's problem. I'm trying to help.
The principles are the same no matter what WD hitch you have. You get more weight distribution action in one of two ways:
A. By tilting the hitch head to angle the bars toward the ground.
B. By using heavier bars.
I suspect that the OP's setup has the hitch head angled quite steeply, hence the need to jack the truck and trailer so high. He's sized his weight bars by the ADVERTISED tongue weight of the trailer, not the actual weight, so you can't ASSUME that he has the right weight bars for the application here.
Regardless, using the next size heavier weight bars, and readjusting the hitch head angle to be less severe will reduce the amount of jacking necessary, and fix the problem.
Well okay, you got me. I don't have a Blue Ox. I also don't have the OP's problem. I'm trying to help.
The principles are the same no matter what WD hitch you have. You get more weight distribution action in one of two ways:
A. By tilting the hitch head to angle the bars toward the ground.
B. By using heavier bars.
I suspect that the OP's setup has the hitch head angled quite steeply, hence the need to jack the truck and trailer so high. He's sized his weight bars by the ADVERTISED tongue weight of the trailer, not the actual weight, so you can't ASSUME that he has the right weight bars for the application here.
Regardless, using the next size heavier weight bars, and readjusting the hitch head angle to be less severe will reduce the amount of jacking necessary, and fix the problem.
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