torque for shank bolts

Hannibal wrote:


I said nothing of bending anything. For someone to junk a perfectly good hitch because it doesn’t satisfy your perception of how you think it should be, makes my point. The only reason for the shim is customer perception.

OK, we will call is squashing the ball mount till it meets the shank. Reese makes a shim to fill the gap in their sloppy parts to prevent that squash. Shim it or junk it, fitting parts that need to be squashed is something that is unacceptable to anyone that understands. I was not satisfied with such a fit, so I milled and fitted things properly.