Newbie - confused about hitch weight
Well, I am a newbie and just bought my TT the other day. Purchased the Palomino Solaire Eclipse. Its dry weight is 6800#. My TV is a 2005 F150 4x2 5.8L V8 with a 144 WB and max trailer weight of 860...
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lawrosa wrote:
Seems you have 1370lbs for tongue and cargo...
What you want to do is ask the dealer to give you the tongue weight of the trailer you are looking at. You want battery installed and full propane..
Let me look at the #'s some more of the TT you are interested in..
Also look at the tag on your receiver. What #'s does it say on it? Such as weights...
You can best guess the tongue weight by taking the dry weights, figuring the percentage of dry hitch weight to dry camper weight, and extrapolating loaded weights from there. For a TT, I'd add a percentage point to account for batteries and propane.
This helps figure that all up:
http://www.towingplanner.com/Estimators/TonguePinWeightFromDry
