Reese WD Hitch failure
Hello, Today I went with my father to take delivery of his new 2014 Windjammer 2618W. When we arrived at his house we experienced a catastrophic failure of a Brand NEW Reese 1200/12000 Weight dist...
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Campin LI wrote:
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The OP has 2 threads going at the same time. In the other thread Here on the second page, the OP was looking to get his hitch ball to be perpendicular to level (or at a right angle to the ground). When I said the angle of the head means nothing, the reference was to the OP thinking it should be perpendicular.
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It is possible that the OP was applying an extreme amount of weight distribution to his setup by trying to keep the ball perpendicular to the truck. Evidence of this possibility is the extreme height the tongue had to be lifted to apply WDH and the fact he is on the last link of his bar chains. He also has a fairly light tongue weight for a pickup truck to handle and he made mention that one of the front end measurements was 1" lower than unhitched height.
OK With two thread going there may be confusion on what the setup was at the time of the failure. The second thread was for setting it up AFTER the failure. So please do not get them confused. The angles and everything when the hitch failed is shown in my first post, which clearly shot the ball axis tilted toward the truck.
And also to get things straight, I an not trying to get the head perpendicular, I was confused as if the head/ball axis being tilted TOWARD the truck after the slop in the receiver tube was taken up, and if this is OK or vaild. Which from the sounds of everything it certainly is.
Also again the 1" lower in the front was during our trial and error on seting the replacement, not as it was setup when the failure occured. Clossing threads is only confusing matters here.
