SoundGuy wrote:
TomG2 wrote:
And thethe moral of this story is? Buy products from dealers who are familiar with them instead of a one off sale.
Actually the real moral to the story is to fully understand what you're buying, how it's intended to work, and what it takes to install properly even if you don't intend to do the installation yourself. ;)
I have to agree. Before I bought my Blue Ox, I watched quite a few videos on it's operation and installation. I also read the manual a couple of times. I was prepared to install it myself until the dealer offered to do it for me. It was their first time installing one and they followed the direction the T. I know because I saw the guys reading the manual as they installed it lol. I still double checked their work before I pulled away and haven't had a problem with it's operation since.
OP - Being off by 3 inches isn't a little off, it's a lot. The instructions say that the height of the ball and the leveled coupler have to be within 0"-1" of each other. Sounds like they just eye balled it. Those 1500 lbs bars will be a lot more helpful than those 1000 lbs based on your published dry weight.
Don't take my comments the wrong way. I know this is all new to you and you're still learning. We've all been there at some point.
