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laknox
Jul 27, 2017Nomad
From the #'s you posted, IF the dry hitch/dry wt ratio of about 16.4% stays true, you're right at 1,900 lbs pin weight. I very seriously doubt that % will hold, once you start loading and you'll be much nearer the 20% ratio of 2,300 lbs. Add the 600 lbs of people and you're at 2,900 lbs of payload and you haven't even touched the hitch. The aluminum Andersen ultimate would add about 50-60; 38 for the hitch and the rest for the rails, so you're d@mn close to 3,000 lbs of total payload if the FW is at GVW. I do understand that you travel with empty tanks, but you can't always count on that. What do you do when, not if, a dump station is closed, or the CG sewer is blocked or otherwise unusable, and you've now got nearly 1,000 lbs of weight that you didn't count on (full grey and black tanks)? It's happened to me a couple times and I had to tow my FW a couple hundred miles with nearly full tanks, that I hadn't counted on. Personally, I'd undo the FW deal and try and move into something like a Jayco Eagle HT at 9,950 GVW or a KZ Durango 1500 at 10,500 GVW. Not the only "half-ton" towables out there, but a lot better than the Arctic Fox, IMO.
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