Question for the Hensley/ProPride people
Hello everyone. I'm looking for comments, good and bad, from the people that own or have owned one of the mentioned hitches. We currently have a 29' Thor that weighs in at about 8500lbs pulling i...
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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
These are all good suggestions IMO. What I did (in reference to #1), is I made a mark on the moving portion of the tongue jack with a sharpie so I know that it's at the same level as the stinger on the TV. Also, making sure to do #2 is really key. If they aren't loose enough, and angle that the main hitch unit is at relative to the stinger can create a sticking point.
Oh, and back up cameras are the best!
