DO 35 Hitch problem revisited see thread 133711

You turned the tongue over , don't think it makes any difference to the towing capacity ,
Do you clean / wash , grease the DO-35 , I have one on my Tvan .

Slip in hitches are designed to give plus minus ride height adjustment. fairly common to "invert" the hitch so it sits higher than lower to allow for articulation of off road coupling.

Ideally hitch should be set up to be level ride angle height with trailer is hooked up but not always possible

Hi Gary

You should not have any issues with the inverted tongue on your vehicle. If you are concerned, do as I did when I purchased our Ultimate camper, and that is buy a Hayman Reese inverted and extended tongue.

I wanted the inverted type to make the camper sit level on the back of our vehicle and the 50mm extension gave us that extra room to be able to open the back door fully when still hitched up.

One item that I can fully recommend if you do not have one is a Stone Stomper to fully protect your camper.




Cheers




Stephen

Why dont you buy a towball with a longer shaft so as the hitch is a bit higher and doesnt catch as it is doing now.
These towballs are used on other hitches to give clearance and may be the easiest way to solve your problem

Some heavier hitches like the 3.5T one on the 200 series cannot be inverted. Should be stated on the hitch like so:

Sounds like you had the Mark2 version of the DO35 anyway! The plastic shroud wasn't on the original mark 1.

Thanks Phil.
Cheers, Gary M.

On the subject of these hitches be aware that they do need some cleaning/maintenance as I discovered.
I found that it was getting increasingly more difficult to have the hitch clear the ball each time however I put it down to the angle of the 'van to the car each time.

Eventually I had significant issues trying to get it off and way out the back of Marble Bar and quite isolated on my own I was faced with the fact that there was an issue and I had to dismantle it to find the problem.

It was simply lack of maintenance on my part as I used to pump it with grease but never clean it.........Upon dismantling ( be careful of the little spring ) I found that some grease had hardened over time into quite a solid lug and was preventing the mechanism from fully retracting to clear the ball pin. In fact it looked more like a half cir clip and I was carefully removing it when I realized what it was. So all cleaned and flushed and reassembled and it was like new!