Reese WD head clarification
Hey Guys I have a Reese weight distributing hitch with trunnion bars along with dual cam setup. It was purchased in 2010 may but wether it was made in that era is unknown. It came with 1200/12000 b...
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hey john,
great to hear from you. im going to be taking the trailer on monday to an unsuspecting level parking lot hopefully to install the hitch properly.
in your pictures you use a jack to dummy install your dual cam and snap ups its going to be hard for me to find my jacks in the middle of a move can i just use my truck?
from what i gathered from what you said, follow instructions from reese for measurements for the most part. the one thing i guess you said to do differently was to have the 'yoke' in the middle, does that mean to have the same amount of threads on both sides?
hard to put a torque wrench on the yoke how tight do you make the retaining nuts?
for the dual cam frame plate, you are saying to use the measurements they give me but if my snap ups wont work with my V-nose configuration to make sure i disregard reese recommendations for distance and just mount where chain will be vertical and yoke is perfectly centre and the cam sits perfectly when the hitch is straight in the highest most point in the curve on the bars ? does the yoke work better when perfectly centre?
top of trailer ball, 1 inch lower then hitch ball... check
7 links under tension and adjust head tilt until truck front drops exact same as rear? fender height to ground from unhooked to hooked up? any reason for 7 links just your personal experience preference?
i took your advice on the carriage bolts, but for the top bolt, i wont be able to use a carriage as there is no square(reese should have made it... whatever), are you saying i should drill and install and see if chain will touch bolt at multiple different angles and if it does take it out? or just leave it out and call it good? another question about the snap up brackets, in the instructions it says to only tighten 1/2 to 3/4 turn no more after hand tight kind of seems a little mickey mouse to me is that actually enough?
for the bracket i just wanted to take the picture so you could see it was bent, ill install properly dont worry.
one thing i dont know about is whether or not ill be able to back up without worrying about snapping anything, if i set up correctly will i only have to worry about my truck hitting trailer and nothing bad happen to the hitch?
thanks so much for your help, hoping to get it perfect first shot
great to hear from you. im going to be taking the trailer on monday to an unsuspecting level parking lot hopefully to install the hitch properly.
in your pictures you use a jack to dummy install your dual cam and snap ups its going to be hard for me to find my jacks in the middle of a move can i just use my truck?
from what i gathered from what you said, follow instructions from reese for measurements for the most part. the one thing i guess you said to do differently was to have the 'yoke' in the middle, does that mean to have the same amount of threads on both sides?
hard to put a torque wrench on the yoke how tight do you make the retaining nuts?
for the dual cam frame plate, you are saying to use the measurements they give me but if my snap ups wont work with my V-nose configuration to make sure i disregard reese recommendations for distance and just mount where chain will be vertical and yoke is perfectly centre and the cam sits perfectly when the hitch is straight in the highest most point in the curve on the bars ? does the yoke work better when perfectly centre?
top of trailer ball, 1 inch lower then hitch ball... check
7 links under tension and adjust head tilt until truck front drops exact same as rear? fender height to ground from unhooked to hooked up? any reason for 7 links just your personal experience preference?
i took your advice on the carriage bolts, but for the top bolt, i wont be able to use a carriage as there is no square(reese should have made it... whatever), are you saying i should drill and install and see if chain will touch bolt at multiple different angles and if it does take it out? or just leave it out and call it good? another question about the snap up brackets, in the instructions it says to only tighten 1/2 to 3/4 turn no more after hand tight kind of seems a little mickey mouse to me is that actually enough?
for the bracket i just wanted to take the picture so you could see it was bent, ill install properly dont worry.
one thing i dont know about is whether or not ill be able to back up without worrying about snapping anything, if i set up correctly will i only have to worry about my truck hitting trailer and nothing bad happen to the hitch?
thanks so much for your help, hoping to get it perfect first shot
