determining pin weight
glanced thru the searches, but didn't see anything on how to determine what my pin weight is. I know I have to use scales, I guess truck scales, but how do I go about determining this? Do I weigh my...
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I pulled my truck on the scales with a full tank of DEF, full tank of fuel, ready to go camping with wife and two dogs. Steer axle was 5280# (Front axle). Drive axle (rear axle) weight was 3860#.
Weighed again with 5er hooked to the truck...at that time the Drive axle (rear axle) weight was 7200#.....Take 7200#, subtract the 3860# and you get the pin weight of the 5er @ 3340#. Pretty simple. The combined weight was 25,240#.
Trailer axle was 12,580, so add the pin weight of 3340 and you get the total weight of the 5er, which was 15,920#, GVW of the 5er is 16,950#. ( so I'm under 5er's GVW by a little over 1,000#.
Just some simple math...weigh the truck, ready to go camping, then weigh it again with 5er hooked to it...subtract the weights as I did above and you'll get your actual pin weight.
Weighed again with 5er hooked to the truck...at that time the Drive axle (rear axle) weight was 7200#.....Take 7200#, subtract the 3860# and you get the pin weight of the 5er @ 3340#. Pretty simple. The combined weight was 25,240#.
Trailer axle was 12,580, so add the pin weight of 3340 and you get the total weight of the 5er, which was 15,920#, GVW of the 5er is 16,950#. ( so I'm under 5er's GVW by a little over 1,000#.
Just some simple math...weigh the truck, ready to go camping, then weigh it again with 5er hooked to it...subtract the weights as I did above and you'll get your actual pin weight.
