Is 1/2" nose high towing an issue?

Lynnmor wrote:
My thought was that you might drag the hitch on the road where there was humps to go over. I can't see the clearance due to the shadow in the photo. If you were local, I could cut it off in minutes. Any machine shop could do if for you for a nominal charge.

With either shank the hitch head is basically at the bottom of the shank, so there's not really any cutting off to be done.... unfortunately this particular TT is so low that it drags like a champ at the rear on even the slightest driveway incline already. So far the hitch hasn't dragged though, but regardless we're going to have to street-park most of the time anyways.

MackinawMan wrote:
Micah, just an FYI, we also tow with the Equalizer brand hitch. Our setup in the end is not quite 1/2 an inch "nose high" as well. Between our 1 ton F350 sitting up so high, and the fact that our Jayco Eagle has the coupler on the underside of the A-Frame, I would need to order the special drop shank that is longer than the standard one as our hitch head is currently bolted as low as it can go on the standard shank that came with the hitch.

I'm not spending $100 (or whatever it was, it wasn't cheap) so I can drop the nose of the TT down barely 1/2 inch when it tows great.

I noticed no difference between it being slightly noseup than when it sat level before. We had put new rims on the truck which resulted in me needing to change the hitch setup. It tows just as nice slightly nose up as it did when it was level.

FWIW

Thanks Mackinawman. I, unfortunately, already bought the $125 custom drop shank, which is now sitting in my garage and will remain there. Technically yes, it's the right shank as far as getting the trailer as close to level as possible with our rig... but doing so gives so little clearance between the shank bottom and the road I don't even want to give it a test run, it would literally scrape on a speed bump. No bueno.

Worse yet, we leave on Monday for our trip and there's simply no time to do a return, so we'll just have to eat that cost. Oh well, live and learn.