Can't stop sway
I am relatively new to camping as my wife and I just bought our first camper this spring. We bought a Jayco Jayflight 287BHSW. I am pulling it with a 2016 F150 Super Crew with 5.5' box. I am using an ...
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hohenwald48 wrote:cordellm wrote:
I am on the very first chain link on my spring bars and I cannot to the hitch head back any further our I will not get the chains to reach the hooks on the tongue.
This sounds strange as I thought you should have about 3 free hanging chain links. A picture would sure help.
Are you using the tongue jack to raise the back of the truck (way up) before attempting to attach the chains? Some folks have to raise the back of the truck almost off the ground to get the bars connected.
My previous TT was like that. It had the coupler mounted on the bottom of the A frame. Using 6 washers and in order for the spring bars to be parallel to the tongue I used the last link. I could get the 2nd to last link if I really cranked the tongue up and reefed on the pry bar. Didn't notice enough difference in the way it towed so I used the last link.
Couplers that are mounted on the top of the tongue bring the spring bars closer to the tongue when parallel so you naturally would have 3 links or so hanging.
