260 ft lbs of torque? Really?
The Husky weight distributing hitch that came with our TT needs to be dropped a couple of inches. The instructions say the bolt that I need to undo to lower it should be tightened to 260 ft lbs of to...
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ah64id wrote:
If it can move it's too loose, even if it moves to the position you want. It will get looser as you tow.
I would have agreed you said it was setup properly until you said you where not getting enough transfer. The head sounds like it needs to be tilted more.
Tilting the head more will not help, my bars are not rated high enough. They are 400-600 lb bars and the tongue weight approx 200 lbs more then that, plus the weight of the hitch, plus the weight of the gear inside the truck bed behind the axle. The bars will lift more if I tilt the head but they bend so far that I fear breakage.
The truck is new to me, the previous truck was a 3/4 ton and although I used the WDH it really wasn't needed. The dead weight of the tongue was low enough for my truck and hitch without the WDH. When I switched to my current truck, and had to set-up the hitch for the different receiver height, got the trailer sitting level, and measured my return to empty heights on the truck... that is when I discovered that I needed to upgrade my bars. It was also after lowering the hitch head down the shank by two bolt hole positions that I discovered it could now pivot on the bolts. If the set-bolt was not broken, I would not have seen that. It took me using a 24" bar with a 48" long pipe to break the nuts loose to move that hitch head, so obviously I have not tightened it enough now.. but that hitch head is going to scrap by end of today since I have the new one now.
