Help with Possible Upgrade to 5th Wheel
I’m considering upgrading from my 2014 Heartland Trail Runner 27RKS to a 2018 5th wheel. My TV is a 2015 2500HD Doublecab Gasser with the standard 6.5 ft. box and 4.10 gears. I’ll be keeping it so I u...
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troubledwaters wrote:RobWNY wrote:Let's see, you have a FW with an advertised hitch weight of 15% and: "I have no idea if they are accurate or not".
agesilaus, those specs come off the Forest River website. I have no idea if they are accurate or not
REALLY?, Your thought 15% was perfectly normal for a FW.
You and me and everyone else knows the hitch weight of that FW rolling down the road will be real close to 2,000 lbs.
The =dry= pin ratio on my old Komfort was right at 15%, but I can tell you that it was =well= over that when loaded. It's why we don't use dry numbers. FWIW, it wasn't something that I was educated about in '04, when I bought my first FW and didn't learn for a couple years afterwards...after I started reading RV.net.
Lyle
