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Jun 10, 2015Explorer
Roy,
It actually "looks" pretty good in the pictures now. With the bend in the bars, you are now transferring load to the steer axle.
A couple of suggestions, and forgive me if I missed it, so maybe you've already done this. Measure the height of the front fender, three times: stock, second with trailer hooked up with no weight bars, and third, with weight bars engaged. The goal here is to get the front fender height back to something close to it's normal height. If the WD is shoving the front "lower" than stock height, then you are transferring too much load.
Remember, the purpose of the WD hitch is NOT to level the truck out. It's purpose is to transfer load to steer axle, restoring load that was removed by dropping the trailer onto the ball. Get the steer axle weight correct, and the rest will take care of itself.
I would still run it over the scales sometime when you are out on a trip. Check the CAT scale locator on their website, and you'll hopefully find along your route.
Ron Gratz has a thread here on this forum that walks you through the three pass process that is easy to follow. If you need the link to that, either do a search, or holler, I think I have the link saved.
It actually "looks" pretty good in the pictures now. With the bend in the bars, you are now transferring load to the steer axle.
A couple of suggestions, and forgive me if I missed it, so maybe you've already done this. Measure the height of the front fender, three times: stock, second with trailer hooked up with no weight bars, and third, with weight bars engaged. The goal here is to get the front fender height back to something close to it's normal height. If the WD is shoving the front "lower" than stock height, then you are transferring too much load.
Remember, the purpose of the WD hitch is NOT to level the truck out. It's purpose is to transfer load to steer axle, restoring load that was removed by dropping the trailer onto the ball. Get the steer axle weight correct, and the rest will take care of itself.
I would still run it over the scales sometime when you are out on a trip. Check the CAT scale locator on their website, and you'll hopefully find along your route.
Ron Gratz has a thread here on this forum that walks you through the three pass process that is easy to follow. If you need the link to that, either do a search, or holler, I think I have the link saved.
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