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[RC] Lifting the Trailer - k s swigartStacy Sadar said: This is what the trailer dealer wanted me to do too....lower the gooseneck. No way...wasn't going to do it. ... Lifts for the trailer were out too... If the front of your gooseneck trailer is too high when you attach it to your truck bed, there are only three ways you can level ANY gooseneck trailer: 1) you can lower the front of the trailer (lower the gooseneck, which you said you don't want to do) 2) you can raise the back of the trailer (lift the trailer, which you have also said you don't want to do) 3) you can lower the bed of your truck (which I think you also said you don't want to/or can't do, especially since this might mean "get a different truck" :)). If you don't want to do any of these three things, the ONLY option you have left is to not level the trailer. If you don't want to get a different truck, you don't want to lower the gooseneck, you don't want to lift the trailer, and you don't want to drive with an unlevel trailer, then you need to get a bumper pull and put a big drop on your hitch (and depending on how high your bumper is and how much your trailer weighs, they may not make a drop that is big enough, since driving really heavy loads with big drop hitches is pretty unsafe). One of the things that you MAY want to consider is lowering the gooseneck and putting a flat bed on your truck, since one of the things that seems to be discouraging you from lowering the gooseneck is that it puts the bottom of the trailer too close to the top of your bed. You can lower the top of your bed without lowering the truck, by just putting on a bed that doesn't have as high of sides, or has removable sides (like a stakebed). However, you are not being fair to the trailer dealers. Since you came to them, it is apparent that not only do they want to sell you a trailer, but you want to buy one, and then are demanding a solution to YOUR problem of having a truck with too high of a bed. If what you wanted was to be able to pull a gooseneck with your truck, you shouldn't have gotten a truck with such a high bed (the trailer dealers were just trying to be polite by not telling you so :)). The fact is, by the laws of physics, if you want to level something that isn't level, you only have two choices: raise the low end or lower the high end. You seem unwilling to do either of these things. In which case your only choice is to not make it level. kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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