Steering wheel angle while towing

Wes Tausend wrote:

The hitch L-brackets do appear to be set at the edge of their range in your picture. More spacers should help. Since the bars do not seem to be significantly bent in the picture, my bet is that they are ok and don't need to be heavier. But that could an optical illusion. It really does depend upon the tongue weight, which you have not measured separately yet. To be honest, I never weigh mine, just go by the axle load height change and best handling.

The picture angle/hitch angle I think distorts it a little. I don't think the bars are bent. I think for the overall setup I may need slightly more weight distribution to the front just going off rough front/rear weight. I added some more weight to the trailer when we got back from the scale so I believe the truck is only going to get slightly heavier.

Originally the L brackets were one hole lower, I did adjust the L brackets up one to where you see them in the picture and the weight did shift more/the front dropped 1/2"

I think I need to add more spacers like has been mentioned and back off on the L bracket height.

Wes Tausend wrote:

I would still be surprised to hear that continuing friction from the L-bracket's can sustain a side thrust on the rear of the truck for more than a few moments without slipping back to center, but the one fellow has commented it does. I'm still betting tires, or at least their lack of full inflation to 44 pounds. Have you tried more air yet? Does the slight off-center steering continue when you ease up on the throttle?

I did increase the tire pressure to ~44psi on all tires. It did not seem to help with the steering wheel angle. Although I didn't really get a great test since the distance traveled was not as far this time.

I also tried to countersteer after a turn to see if it would return the Equalizer to "center" that did not help and just made my wife freak out :)

I don't really know anyone well enough to ask them to waste a few hours and their HD pickup. The only people I know well enough that would do that don't own HD pickups.

I did download the manual and it appears I've kind of shifted this thread into an all purpose "help me with my setup thread."