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aruba5er
Explorer
Sep 26, 2017

Nise high towing How much additional wieght on rear tires

They keep raising the trucks and I am running about 2 inches nose high. I blew 3 tires in March and still trying to figure out why. How much more weight is on the rear tires because of "nose high" I ...
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rhagfo
Explorer III
Sep 28, 2017
Cummins12V98 wrote:
"Yet together both axles on the fiver came in at... 8000# so not sure how that happens"

I have this happen all the time, it's from weighing one axle with it near the scale pads edge.

True weight is the combined with both axles on center of scale.

These are likely a bad set of scales or very old, modern use load cells and should weigh accurate even at the edge.

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