camp-n-family wrote:
Just curious how many chain links you are using? Since your weights vary with what you carry you can adjust the number of links used accordingly instead of having to tilt the hitch head each time. The bars when tensioned up should be close to parallel with the frame but one link more or less won't change position much but can affect the weight transfer. I would adjust the head for the heaviest tongue load carried and adjust the number of links for the others.
The bars are parallel with the 7th of 9 links hooked up. This was the first time I adjusted the tilt since I bought it. The three washers that came in it from the prior owner were not giving enough lift, as the first two cases showed. The Case 3 is the highest tongue weight so far at 900 lbs. It had a load of water but only one dirt bike in the back to counterbalance it. The hitch instructions said each OEM washer lowers the bar end by 1.5". The prior owner didn't give me the remaining OEM washers. The washers I bought are a little thicker than OEM. I think those two washers probably lowered the bar end by 4". I haven't measured the chain link length. It would have required shortening it up by two or three links to get the adjustment gained by two washers. The prior owner towed it with a diesel F250, so he probably didn't even need the WDH, and certainly didn't need as much tension as mine does. I don't plan to weigh it every time I take it out.
