Hey all,
I know it is important to spend the time to set up my load distribution hitch so I am going through the steps. For reference I have a Denali with rear air suspension.
When installing the load bars the instructions indicate that after install the bars should be parallel to the road. I am finding that this provides very little weight distribution and the rear of the truck remains sagged below usual ride height by a couple inches. It's like I want to make the bars tighter, but they are already off of parallel and that'd make it worse. What am I doing wrong?
The last pic is a zoom of the first one. Note the load bars are up a fair bit at the chain tip instead of being parallel to the ground and also please note that the rears suspension remains a couple inches lower than non-trailer ride height.
Perhaps I have the wrong capacity bars? The hitch system itself is rated well above the trailer gross.
The above was all done with the Envoy's engine off, but it was running prior to hook up to have the rear suspension pumped up to usual ride height without a trailer as a baseline. The air suspension will auto level things but I think it is more proper to only let the auto air system run after I have re-set it to the proper ride height with the load bars - correct?
All advice appreciated.
I know it is important to spend the time to set up my load distribution hitch so I am going through the steps. For reference I have a Denali with rear air suspension.
When installing the load bars the instructions indicate that after install the bars should be parallel to the road. I am finding that this provides very little weight distribution and the rear of the truck remains sagged below usual ride height by a couple inches. It's like I want to make the bars tighter, but they are already off of parallel and that'd make it worse. What am I doing wrong?
The last pic is a zoom of the first one. Note the load bars are up a fair bit at the chain tip instead of being parallel to the ground and also please note that the rears suspension remains a couple inches lower than non-trailer ride height.
Perhaps I have the wrong capacity bars? The hitch system itself is rated well above the trailer gross.
The above was all done with the Envoy's engine off, but it was running prior to hook up to have the rear suspension pumped up to usual ride height without a trailer as a baseline. The air suspension will auto level things but I think it is more proper to only let the auto air system run after I have re-set it to the proper ride height with the load bars - correct?
All advice appreciated.