2017 Nissan Titan XD Cummims Diesel towing travel trailer

Rider7767 wrote:

camp-n-family wrote:
I didn’t watch the whole video but that guy needs to learn how to set his hitch up properly. Running it the way it is will either damage the hitch and/or the trailer frame. The hitch head needs to be tilted back to drop the bars parallel to the frame and allow more chain links to hang so there is room for the bars to move while turning.8

Just under a 1000 miles running 70 mph up and over hills through the mountains. No damage in any way form or fashion. Thanks for your opinion. I will look at it much closer next time. It was the first pull with this truck. FYI, I am not sure it was meant that way, but your post came across as you feel Superior. And the video was about the truck.

Sorry, didn’t mean for it to come across that way. I’ve edited the original response. Not feeling superior in any way, just hoping to save somebody from potential damage as I have seen it happen before. You may have been lucky so far but I guarantee you will damage something when you do a sharp turn. In a turn the trailer tongue will shorten the distance between the snap up bracket and the hitch head on the inside of the turn and the opposite on the outside. With so few chain links hanging down there is no way for this to happen and will cause the hitch to bind up. Something has to give which usually ends with a bent or broken snap up bracket. The ends of the bars may also hit the trailer frame angled up as they are. Properly set you want the bars to be parallel to the trailer frame when tensioned and a minimum of 5 chain links between the bracket and the bars to allow for movement. You can achieve that by tilting the hitch head back towards the trailer.

Nice truck btw. Looks like a perfect match for the trailer.