Hitch height ???
I was going to start a new thread, but saw this so thought I'd ask here.
On our way to the Vegas Rally I noticed that the rear axle tires on the Prowler were wearing badly on the inside tread, front axle no problem.
After the Dexter seminar at the Rally, Glen from Dexter came over to our site and had a look and said that the rear axle had lost it's camber (ie.- no longer curved in the middle, but flat), which is why the tires are worn on the inside tread.
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He suggested that we reverse the tires on those wheels to get home (which we did in Utah), and possible causes would be overloading (the usual first response) which we did not do, and also towing with the front of the trailer too high, and last but not least, the axle might be defective.
He did also say that you never know how it was handled (towed) by the delivery driver from the factory . . .
I showed him photos of the truck and trailer hitched up (same photo as in my sig below), and he said that it looks a little high in the front, which is how the dealer installed the hitch.
This shot the Prowler was loaded as we had just arrived at Blue Mesa and was our third campout in the two months since we purchased the trailer . . .
When we got home and unloaded the fridge and some other stuff, as I was getting ready to unhitch I remembered to measure the front and back of the trailer to the ground, so I drove around the corner to a Kohl's parking lot (nice and level) and took this photo and then measured (wish I would have remembered to measure before I drained the fresh water and hot water tanks, plus I had an almost empty tank of gas in the truck):
So when I measured from the corners of the frame to the ground, the front of the trailer is 4 1/2 inches higher in the front.
On my Reese slider hitch, these adjustment holes from center to center of the hole are 1 1/2 inches apart:
So my question is this . . .
Which hole should I use to adjust the hitch?
I'm thinking that if I go all the way to the top it will be too far and may not give me enough clearance between the trailer and the bed rails, not to mention might be to low on the front of the trailer.
