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Old 08-16-2019, 03:53 PM   #21
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Sorry, 2019 F150. I am going to go through the setup tonight. It does seem pretty straight forward and when I checked it today the trailer is tilted up slightly. I am hoping this is my issue.
Drop the hitch ball to get the trailer level. That will help quite a bit.

Then measure the front fender height empty, hitched without the bars and then hitched with the bars.

The last measurement should be very close to the empty height.
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Old 08-18-2019, 05:07 PM   #22
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Update,

After purchasing a new TT and having the dealer install a new Husky Centerline TS hitch system I wasn't happy with it. I contacted Husky who sent me some documents to give them measurements of the vehicles. Today was the day to fill them out and send them in. I started by first reading the original install instructions. Then I followed their documents. I quickly became very upset with the dealer who installed this. I set the hitch up as per the install instructions and found the ball height was wrong, a washer was missing so the tilt was off, the bolts through the hitch head were not installed properly and the trailer brackets were 1 setting too low. Took me a little time to set this up as per instructions. I took it for a 1 hour ride and could tell it was a lot better. I just don't want to believe that a dealer who is trained and paid for a service doesn't install it correctly.
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Old 08-18-2019, 05:22 PM   #23
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Update,

After purchasing a new TT and having the dealer install a new Husky Centerline TS hitch system I wasn't happy with it. I contacted Husky who sent me some documents to give them measurements of the vehicles. Today was the day to fill them out and send them in. I started by first reading the original install instructions. Then I followed their documents. I quickly became very upset with the dealer who installed this. I set the hitch up as per the install instructions and found the ball height was wrong, a washer was missing so the tilt was off, the bolts through the hitch head were not installed properly and the trailer brackets were 1 setting too low. Took me a little time to set this up as per instructions. I took it for a 1 hour ride and could tell it was a lot better. I just don't want to believe that a dealer who is trained and paid for a service doesn't install it correctly.
Also not sure if you guys have seen or used this but I am a little bit of a technology guy. There is a device call Haul Gauge. I used this to just see the differences in the setup of weight distribution. I am going to attach the screenshots. I don't hold a lot of faith in this but since cat scales are not close to me it is better than nothing. The one at 10:54 was the dealer setup hitch, 12:27 was no weight distribution and the 12:30 was after following Husky's setup instructions.
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