I have a Wildwood trailer and use an Equil-i-zer hitch. On my current F150 and a previous Ram 1500 the pressure on the bars not equal. When I go to hookup, the street side bar takes very little raising of the jack to engage. When the street side bar is engaged, the curb side bar is still an inch below the perch.Both bars are straight and there doesn’t appear to be any frame issues.Has any body set the L brackets at a different height so that the pressure on each is equal?

I have a gmc 2500 and my set up does the same thing. I have not changed anything. Be interesting to hear what others have to say.

My Equal-i-zer did the same. The hitch shaft in your receiver has some slop in it. It's just enough that it causes the head to rock a little. The first side you put on will pull the hitch down, making it fairly easy to put the bar on that side. It's now under tension and pulling downward. The other side is now higher. But the bar on the other side has to be lifted higher and with more force to get on. Once on and the fact is raised, both sides are the same.Tip...raise the tongue attached to the toe vehicle higher up, to where there is no tension at all on either side. The higher up the tongue, the easier the bars lift up. No need for the cheater at all.I raised mine high enough I would lift the bars on the L bracket with the toe of my foot Again, it may seem like it is unequal tension, that's because of the rocking due to slop in the receiver shaft.Keep the L brackets the same length or you will have only one bar bearing the entire load.

A secondary aspect you alluded to is that there may be a downslope, from the road "crowning", from the the center of the road down to the curb. The TT & TV setting cross slope has been a bother for me several times when attaching and removing the load bars.

DutchmenSport wrote:My Equal-i-zer did the same. The hitch shaft in your receiver has some slop in it. It's just enough that it causes the head to rock a little. As an anti rattle device, I drilled and tapped a 1/2” bolt through the bottom of the receiver/shank. I tighten the grade 8 bolt to about 90 FP. The shank is pulled down tight to the receiver and absolutely will not rock. It doesn’t matter which side I hook up first, the curb side is always lower

My receiver has a fair amount of slop, so I would never notice something like this. It would just center itself. Is it possible that your 2" opening is not totally square to the back of the truck? And by locking the receiver into the hitch you are forcing it to be at a bit of an angle? Or there could be a degree of error in the actual receiver shank/hitch attachment.I've not heard of anyone having the L brackets at different heights side to side, might be interesting to shoot Equal-i-zer an email and ask, I'd be interested in their response.

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Boomerweps
Explorer
Nov 08, 2018
A secondary aspect you alluded to is that there may be a downslope, from the road "crowning", from the the center of the road down to the curb. The TT & TV setting cross slope has been a bother for me several times when attaching and removing the load bars.
DutchmenSport
Explorer
Nov 08, 2018
My Equal-i-zer did the same. The hitch shaft in your receiver has some slop in it. It's just enough that it causes the head to rock a little. The first side you put on will pull the hitch down, making it fairly easy to put the bar on that side. It's now under tension and pulling downward. The other side is now higher. But the bar on the other side has to be lifted higher and with more force to get on.

Once on and the fact is raised, both sides are the same.

Tip...raise the tongue attached to the toe vehicle higher up, to where there is no tension at all on either side. The higher up the tongue, the easier the bars lift up. No need for the cheater at all.

I raised mine high enough I would lift the bars on the L bracket with the toe of my foot

Again, it may seem like it is unequal tension, that's because of the rocking due to slop in the receiver shaft.

Keep the L brackets the same length or you will have only one bar bearing the entire load.
bob213
Explorer
Nov 08, 2018
I have a gmc 2500 and my set up does the same thing. I have not changed anything. Be interesting to hear what others have to say.

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