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juzplanekrazy
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Sep 12, 2007

Whats Your Real Weights? Truck and Trailer. The Real Deal

I don’t know if it’s been done before or not but I was thinking about keeping a running list of real truck weights by year and type, and trailer weights by brand, size and what the total combined weig...
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marspec
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Apr 30, 2008
Glenn Schumann wrote:
Thus Pin weight is 1,820, FW total weight is 9,820 and pin weight is 18.5% of FW total weight.


I'd be leary of reducing pin weight. You're well within your TV axle limits. My experience has been a pin weight in the 19-20% range provides a decent tow. Much lighter than that tends to make the trailer act a little squirly. That's with a F250, both my 95 and 05.

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