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webejpn
Explorer
Jul 26, 2017

Did I just buy a 5th wheel?!?!?! What did I get into?

Some background. Been camping all my life. We recently sold our travel trailer that was sitting on some land we owned. We sold it with the land because I had no way to tow it hence why it sat at tha...
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Dayle1
Explorer II
Jul 28, 2017
webejpn wrote:

Anyway, i was surprised that as my truck sat as is, she only dropped about 3".


With that much drop you may want air bags, depends on how much suspension travel is remaining. Remember even though the dry pin is like 16%, the gear you add will be front heavy. That floorplan has minimal rear storage and lots of forward storage. You could easily have 30% of the added weight show up as pin weight. So the rear will drop even more.

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