Need Help With My 5th Wheel/Truck
I have a 2015 Ford F150 2.7 eco boost and we bought a Wildcat Light Fifth Wheel. I ask several times over to make sure that we could pull it and were told yes. We just got off the first trip and eve...
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Like centerline said, the center of the hole in the hitch plate should be 1-2.5 inches in front of the axle, on a long bed a rule of thumb is that the rear bed rail is 30 inches from the rear edge of the bed.
Go by a set of truck scales at a truck stop, weigh the whole rig with each axle on a different pad, pull off, drop the trailer in the lot, reweigh the truck, subtract the truck from the total and that will give you the trailer weight. The difference between the loaded and unloaded rear axle weight will give you the pin weight on the trailer, it should be about 15% +/- of the trailer gross.
Believe it or not your air bags are too soft, bring them up to about 45-50# to compensate for the pin weight, and run 60# in your drive tires, I can pull my 31' Wilderness gross 12,500, on my GMC 1500 with little trouble, I use my 3500 mostly, but it's built for the extra weight, just saying, get REAL weights then go from there, it will be worth the $10+ for accuracy and your hitch guys.
Chuck S
Go by a set of truck scales at a truck stop, weigh the whole rig with each axle on a different pad, pull off, drop the trailer in the lot, reweigh the truck, subtract the truck from the total and that will give you the trailer weight. The difference between the loaded and unloaded rear axle weight will give you the pin weight on the trailer, it should be about 15% +/- of the trailer gross.
Believe it or not your air bags are too soft, bring them up to about 45-50# to compensate for the pin weight, and run 60# in your drive tires, I can pull my 31' Wilderness gross 12,500, on my GMC 1500 with little trouble, I use my 3500 mostly, but it's built for the extra weight, just saying, get REAL weights then go from there, it will be worth the $10+ for accuracy and your hitch guys.
Chuck S
