Pin Box Adjustment and Trailer Leveling???
My current setup has my trailer slightly nose-high. When I measure the clearance between my trailer and the bed rails I am right about 6 inches by the tailgate and the front of the trailer nose is ab...
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bowler1 wrote:
My truck is a 3500. Pin weight 2600 dry factory spec. Maybe 3100 as it is now
Any chance of getting a picture, and what brand TV, you state 3500 Ram or GM?
Ram tends to a$$ high, so if the pin is not heavy enough to level the TV then best option would be to lift the 5er at the axles.
Best way to determine is to find a nice level area to do some measurements with enough room to unhitch and move forward enough to level 5er.
First with 5er attached and supported by TV measure at pin location from ground to top of bed rail. Call this Measurment1.
Second, leaving 5er in same spot, unhitch and move TV so you can drop nose until the 5er is level. Now measure distance from the ground to bottom of the overhang near or at the pin, Call this Measurement2.
Now math time (measurment1+6)-measurment2=lift needed at axles.
The 6 added to measurment1 is the 6" desired clearance to bed rails, the height the nose of the 5er needs to be at for that clearance.
As you see measurement2 is the height of the overhang when the 5er is level, so subtracting this from the loaded height of the TV plus 6" or desired rail clearance, gives you the height the 5er would need to raised at the axles to tow level. :)
