[Jackpine]

It sounds like you need to "shorten" the chains on the WD hitch by attaching to a lower link.

You do this by attaching the trailer tongue to the ball on the hitch and then you use the tongue jack to raise both the front of the trailer and the rear of your truck until you can get the next link in the chain attached. Then, you retract the tongue jack and measure the result. This should have raised the rear of the truck and lowered the front. Ideally, you want the front and rear of the truck to compress the exact same amount with the trailer connected, and, you want the trailer to ride level. This equalizes the additional load on each axle of the truck.

If there's too much load on the rear axle, it is probably overloaded. This also reduces the load on the front axle making steering less dependable and when braking, the trailer front "dives", which puts even more load on the rear axle, raising the front of the truck even more.

Now, it sounds to me like the trailer may sit "nose up" if you do what I said about shortening the chain. The way to fix that is to lower the ball. This may change the chain length again. You'll have to spend some time doing this. It's a bit of a trial and error process. You'll probably end up with "close" - the front and rear of the truck will be compressed within 1/2" of equal and the trailer will be close to level.

- Jack