Update. Dropped it to 6, let the trailer down, and the ass end of my truck was sagging, so i put it back up to 5. 4 is scary, 6 is useless.
Alright, so i do have some questions, problems or something. Maybe I’m just not used to how this hitch works.
Every time i get passed by a truck or even a large car/suv, i feel a suction towards that vehicle, then a push away as i exit their wind trail. Anything over 65 is sketc hy (at least for me). It will sway back and forth, pushing me around a bit pver 65. The rear end of my truck is down a bit, and my headlights do point upwards a touch. Nothing terrible. It feels like i need more tongue weight, but i need the butt of my truck to sit up a bit.
I’m at a hotel for the night cause my trailer is still winterized. When i got here, I immediately took everything out of the bed that i added after putting the hitch together and put it in the trailer, some in the basement, but i put the inverter generator in the back of the trailer. The bed now has the same ammount of stuff in it now that it had when i installed the hitch. The rear has raised slightly now without the additional weight.
In that picture i posted above, you can see my truck squating a bit, but the trailer is still very slightly nose high. The trailer is closer to level than my truck was.
Do any of my towing “issues” have anything to do with my short wheelbase truck and a 26ft trailer?
Right now I’m just trying to make it to georgia so i can set up my new home. When i get down there, i may go to a service center and have them fiddle with it to get it right, and maybe have them install the sway control too.
*edit* i just studied that picture i posted, and it sure looks lile i have a bad hitch head angle. I wonder if i rake that hitch head towards the trailer some more,, that would increase the bar tension on the chains, lifting more off the rear and more spread out? Am i thinking that correctly?
