THIS is exactly how I ended up making mine work. If I made them parallel with the arms then the jaw of the hitch was at a bad angle to the pin on the implement and would NOT seat. I finally got a sledge and worked them on and THEN loosened everything up and levered and tightened them up where the jaw of the hitch was 90 degrees to the implement pin.............Hard to understand perhaps in my southern English; but for me if I was to do it again, I would leave them all kinda loose, hook up the implement, and then tighten them up so that there is NO binding........God bless.............Dennis