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ReneeG
Jul 23, 2014Explorer
peirek wrote:
Love my Hensley! Some secrets I have learned to hitching and unhitching:
1) I made note of the height of my rear wheel well unloaded. I use this as a gauge to decouple.
2) Loosen the WD bars significantly to allow the head to move up and down as needed for any odd angles. This helps in unhitching and hitching.
3) Use of a backup camera for aligning the stinger to the center of the hitch (with near proper angle). With the hitch head loose (slack in HD bars) you just need to get the correct height before starting the stinger in the hitch. The head will follow the needed angle and height (if not too far off).
4) Apply lube to the stinger wedges and receiver entry.
In a normal hitching event, I get out of the vehicle once to check/adjust the height of the receiver head and the rest is done via the camera. And yes the camera is critical in my opinion. Check my signature...... :B
Yes! I forgot we too did all of this, along with using the Hitch Helper. Just a note, as I originally stated, we purchased the emergency parts kit when we bought the hitch, but in the 4 years we owned it, we never had to use it.
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