First Time with ProPride
So we just made our first drive with the ProPride hitch. Although it was only about 25 miles, it included hills (up and down), curves at freeway speeds, and a bit of breezy weather. This hitch is ...
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CarnationSailor wrote:hddecker wrote:93Cobra2771 wrote:
Wes - I'm glad you remembered to check, as I 100% totally forgot to. And yes, it was the foot that was the issue.
I too, had an issue where I was at a fairly extreme angle, and where I had backed up the hitch head had shifted to one side. I ended up pulling the pin on the foot, dropping the jack, then putting the foot back on. This was on my old manual tongue jack.
The new jack has a round foot and doesn't go up as high as the old one. Just high enough to catch the WD bars.
Regarding the bump - I have felt it. I think it is more easily felt with 1/2 ton trucks and heavier TT combos. I can also feel the hitch head swing from side to side in the case of a slow "S" turn. Part of the route on our regular campground is through the Smoky Mountains, and the road has quite a few low speed turns as well as off throttle coasting. If you aren't on your brakes, you will feel the bump as the HH head pivots to one side or the other. You can trail brake lightly with your controller and it won't happen.
Am I missing something, I paid good money for my Hensley and I don't get a bump.
I did manage to bend a strut bar once and that caused a lot more than a bump. I check my strut bars at every stop and if there is the least bit of wiggle, I give the adjuster a quarter turn and no wiggle.
I have leaned the rear bumper right up against the A-frame and have never felt anything out of the ordinary.
How did you bend a strut bar? Did you have to try real hard? ;)
I didn't have to try at all.
I have no idea how I did it, I left the campground in the morning never felt a thing until I' getting to a stop light and the TT did a little dance while I was braking and the big bang.
Hensley never questioned it they had a new strut bar to me in a matter of a couple of days. All it cost me was the shipping.
I also managed to knock the zerks off the spring bar mounts, that one I know how I managed to knock them off. I didn't pay attention to where I was shoving the dog crates, again just paid the shipping and new zerks were on the way. It sure was tough having to wait over the weekend in Frankfort KY, spent the whole weekend looking for that Bourbon Trail, so many Bourbons, so little time.
