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Old 12-07-2020, 11:18 PM   #1
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E2 Fastway Hitch Assembly

We recently received our new 21C and have some concerns about the hitch assembly. We ordered the E2 by Fastway and although the height from the ground to the bottom inside of our receiver corresponded with the 6 hole drop bar on ETI's website, we ended up receiving a 9 hole bar. When trying it in our truck's receiver, we thought it was low. We live in a hilly area but managed to find a fairly level parking lot and measured the height to the top of the ball as about 17 1/2". We have been told our trailer coupler is at 19". So far we aren't having any luck with having the low ball height (and extra long drop bar which for our truck means very little ground clearance) being addressed. Are we right in assuming we shouldn't drive the trailer with the ball set so low? Do you think this is something we can fix ourselves by assembling the hitch head to the 6 hole drop bar (which we did also receive)? We have done the calculations and it seems the 6 hole drop would be ideal to achieve 19-20" ball height and we would just need to buy an 1-1/8" socket for the shank bolts (we have a wrench for the shank nuts and a torque wrench capable of 250 ft-lb of torque). What would you do?
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Old 12-07-2020, 11:53 PM   #2
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Change it out, chances are it will drop another 1” or so with tongue weight. You definitely want to be at that 19”-20” level.
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