carrying up front
I am currently pulling a Big Horn 3370RK with a 13' Ford F-250 SD 6.7. I am thinking about mounting a receiver hitch on the front of the truck and carrying a 3 to 400# scooter on the front. Anyone e...
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avvidclif1 wrote:jus2shy wrote:
Just a quick note. You're putting 300 to 400 lbs on the front of your truck. However, your fulcrum is your front axle. So even though you're putting 300 lbs on the front of the truck, you are also going to pull a few hundred pounds from the rear as well. So you may be putting an additional 500 or 700 lbs on the front axle of your truck. It'll help spread more pin-weight to the front axle and give your rear axle a little relieve, but you already have a heavy engine on the front tires. Also note that you will have yourself and anything between the tires putting some weight on the front axle as well. Check how much overhead you have.
California Physics???????
That 500 to 700 is inclusive of the scooters weight. Regardless, you are going to have a teeter totter effect. So you do pull weight above the scooters towards the front. The same principle allows a weight distribution hitch to put weight on the front axle, using the rear axle as the fulcrum.
