Tongue weight, revisted
My TH has a 13,000gvwr sticker, but in reality probably closer to 15,000 loaded. Thank God for 6 Michelin Ribs... Did an experiment a couple years ago with reducing my tongue weight to a minimum. S...
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allcool wrote:souraider wrote:
Wow...3180 that is a lot. Used to tow an "07 fsc3200, while it was a pig, I always kept it under #13000. Tongue was always in the 1400-1600 range, and it did like to be at the higher end of that for towability. It towed well behind my old '06 F350 using the old school eaz-lift wdh.
The WW FSC3200 I've seen have the same sticker I do, 13,000 & 1090TW. Optimistic at best. They did have different floor plan & frame than the FSW.
Oh ya, mine is what they called a FSW3200 plus 2' as per its invoice.
Your definitely trying to address the swaying issue but it has to be something with your specific setup or we would all be running around with 3000 lbs of tongue weight.
Even with a 1850 lb rated hitch your exceeding that by 70%. I would suggest if you are going to tow with that kind of TW I would upgrade the WDH and the trucks hitch to a 3" and as heavy as you can get... Plus the A frame of the trailer should be reinforced for exceeding the manufacturers rating by 300%.
The only other thing I could suggest is experiment with Trailer height. With 15% TW try towing level if that does not work try lowering the front a couple of degrees if that does not work try raising it up a few degrees.
