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I don't remember reading how much lower the bed of the truck needed to be but if it only needed a few inches my first thought was to load the truck with ~2000 lbs of sand bags.

 

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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.