Relocate batteries to reduce tongue weight
I would like to reduce the tongue weight of our 2009 WW FB2100. There are currently 2 6v batteries mounted on a rack on the tongue. There is enough depth at the rear to mount them under the bed of the...
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Seems like a lot of work for nothing. Just to keep them out of the sun or being stolen. There must be more to this to go through all this work. I imagine it has to do with the Expedition. At one time I used to use my 1997 Expedition to tow a 4000 pound 22ft Nash trailer. It did fine, but nothing I would brag about. I wouldn't want to tow anymore weight with it. You are twice the weight of my Nash, but I doubt your newer Expy is rated to tow twice what my 1997 could. I bought a brand new 04.5 Dodge Ram with the Cummins and didn't even know that trailer was back there. The sketchy mountain driving with the Expy was a thing of the past. I still have that Expy with 280K miles on it and still run it 60 miles a day. I relegated it back to what is does best...moving people....not trailers.
The comment of moving up in truck was a wise one as I believe that's what is prompting the move of the batteries. The short wheelbase Expy is best left to towing the wakeboard boat to the local lake and taking the kids to school. Good luck in sorting the weight issues out. My first choice for a tow vehicle would not be an Expedition since I have been down that road already. Its easy for me to say to upgrade to a better towing platform, but tow vehicles are not cheap and sometimes you have to try and make work what you already have.
The comment of moving up in truck was a wise one as I believe that's what is prompting the move of the batteries. The short wheelbase Expy is best left to towing the wakeboard boat to the local lake and taking the kids to school. Good luck in sorting the weight issues out. My first choice for a tow vehicle would not be an Expedition since I have been down that road already. Its easy for me to say to upgrade to a better towing platform, but tow vehicles are not cheap and sometimes you have to try and make work what you already have.
