Weight Distrubuting Hitch Setup

Altoidfishfins wrote:

Question - many instructions say to measure the vehicle front and back to ground level, then find the setting on the hitch which returns the vehicle as closely as possible to the original measurements with the TT connected. Hard to do on rough ground or in my case, a graveled back yard.

What if? One were to simply place a digital level on top of the vehicle (parallel front to back of course), note the angle at which it sits unloaded, then hook up the TT and make adjustments until the level reads the original angle (or as closely as possible)?

Any thoughts out there?

Measuring the vehicle body height at the axles is an estimate of relative axle weight since the goal of WD is to return some or all the weight lost on the front axle when one just drops the tongue on the ball.

If your home does not provide a suitable flat (level is not important) surface for about 60 feet, set it up somewhere else. I go to a local park with paved parking lot, or a school, business after hours. Or find a scale to measure the weights