Campin LI wrote:
I don't think you understand what you need to do. The angle the hitch head makes with the truck means nothing. If you tilt the head forward toward the truck, you could take up a chain link. I think you are lifting the back of your truck up too high, especially if the front is down 1". The front suspension may be on the bump stops too. I think you should keep tilting the head forward toward the truck until the front of your truck is at unhitched height or slightly higher. Then move hitch head up or down on the shank until the trailer is level. Keep re-adjusting until it is right. The coupler mount really has no bearing on your setup.
You were already referred to the sticky on setup to read. You need to have a basic understanding of what to do before you start. Good luck.
You are not fully reading my post. We did take it up one notch and it retuned the front unleveled height, which is the target from every where I have read.
My concern with the head tilt is in relation the ball axis has with level ground.
Lets get this straight.
1) Lets call 90 degrees the point where if you draw a line along the axis of the hitch ball the point where that line is perpendicular to level ground. We will call a ball tilted toward the trailer to have a pitch of greater than 90 degrees. A tilt toward the truck we will call less than 90 degrees. Some crude images to illustrate this.
The greater than 90 degree angle is what I have typically seen. In this case we are looking at the ball angle to be less than 90 degrees. (the angle is in relation to level ground) Is this a valid configuration? I believe the ball is resulting in the less than 90 degree angle because of the slop in shank has in the receiver tube.
