Tongue Weight Part 2 CAT Scales
Hello and thanks all in advance! So I went to the CAT scales prior to my long Yosemite drive and gained some numbers. I was able to gain a 3 different weights, trailer alone, truck alone, and th...
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What do you mean by TT Weight Steer axle on your top line? Is that the weight of the TT on the first pad (sitting on the jack) and the Drive axle is the weight on the second pad?? If so, 840 lbs would be the actual tongue weight of the trailer.
When you say without sway bars do you really mean without weight distribution bars? or are those weights with the WD bars hooked up but no separate sway bar? If your truck drive axle, without trailer, is 2780, and your drive axle, with trailer connected, without WD bars is 3740, then your additional weight, as it relates to the truck would be 960, (3740-2780) would it not? This would likely/could be due to the tongue weight of 840, plus the weight of the WD hitch. 840 is 15 percent of the total weight. WD hitches are somewhere in neighborhood of 100 additional lbs, which may account for the majority of the difference between 960 and 840.
Not sure if Im reading it right.
Mike
When you say without sway bars do you really mean without weight distribution bars? or are those weights with the WD bars hooked up but no separate sway bar? If your truck drive axle, without trailer, is 2780, and your drive axle, with trailer connected, without WD bars is 3740, then your additional weight, as it relates to the truck would be 960, (3740-2780) would it not? This would likely/could be due to the tongue weight of 840, plus the weight of the WD hitch. 840 is 15 percent of the total weight. WD hitches are somewhere in neighborhood of 100 additional lbs, which may account for the majority of the difference between 960 and 840.
Not sure if Im reading it right.
Mike
