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"If you don't want to do any of these three things, the ONLY option you
have left is to not level the trailer."

 

These three things are not the ONLY option I had.  I found a manufacturer who would make the trailer to fit this truck AND all other regular bed trucks without lifts on the trailer or lowering my GN in the truck.   All others would not do it or would give me little or no warranty even if they made it.

 

?drive with an unlevel trailer?

 

My trailer is completely level on my truck because it was made properly.  Everything was measured before manufactured to not only fit this truck but any ?regular? height truck and still be level. 

 

?you MAY want to consider is lowering the gooseneck and putting a flat bed on your truck?

 

It is a Flat Bed. 

 

I have solved my problems regarding truck and trailer.  I'm completely happy with what I have, it's use today with this truck and use in the future with another truck.  I'm level going down the road.  My comments are truly for a ?buyer beware? comment and make sure you ask enough questions before you buy something and find it doesn?t work.  Warranty is a big one.  If you change something, is your warranty still covered?  Did anyone measure the height of the truck vs. the height of the GN?  What about the clearance...can you hit a bump or go up a hill/down a hill and have enough room so you don't wipe out your truck or GN?  I'm just very particular about making sure everything works right and is constructed right no matter what it is.  If it takes me a year to do all my research then make the right decision, so be it.  I just KNOW that when I finally buy something or build something, everything works like it's supposed to. 

 

Stacy

k s swigart <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Stacy 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.
>
>
>
>
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