drsteve wrote:
Sounds like you've got it pretty close to right. The washers referred to by Dutchmen Sport are spacers used to angle the hitch head. They should be shown in the instructions.
One thing I would mention is that while trailer tongue weight counts as cargo, cargo in the truck does not count as tongue weight. Your trailer probably has an actual loaded tongue weight of about 750 lb, so 1000 lb bars should work fine.
But yeah, hitch up and take a ride. I suspect you'll be just fine.
Edit: according to these instructions, those big bolts want 260 ft lb of torque. The diagram shows the spacer washers as #12b.
Clicky
Thank you for that info on the torque specs, I must have been spaced out and just never saw those numbers.
I’m fairly sure it’s probably all right based on everyone’s opinions thus far, so before I head out today or tomorrow for a test run, I’ll torque those bolts with my torque wrench.
As for the washers, I thought that’s what he meant, but my hitch has a thumb screw and a lock bolt. Thumb screw on top (had to use a pry bar to adjust it) and the lock bolt on the bottom to hold the angle. Makes sense why I didn’t know what he was talking about for sure, but I get it now.
