Not enough tension on dealer installed wdh?

The higher you crank the tongue jack up, the easier the bars attach. I never use the cheater bar to attach the bars on L brackets on my Equal-i-zer system. And my old Reese that had the chains on the bars, I never used the cheater bar either. I could just simply flip up the catches on the tongue very easy by hand. The secret is to jack the trailer tongue up high. Once attached, when you lower the jack, tension then increases on the bars and distributes the weight to the front of the tow vehicle.

Here again, the higher you crank the trailer jack up (while hitched), the easier the bars attach.

When tow vehicle and trailer are in this position ... easy ... ^ When they are in this position, .... cheater bar is essential: \/