10000 harbor freight hitch up to par???
hello all, i have a 28 foot 2004 blaze'n toy hauler and seems to have a incredible tongue weight. we do not haul toys in it yet but plan to in the next year after its paid off more.i have a 10000 lb h...
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the tongue weight is close to 12ooo from the weights at odot
This cannot possibly be your tongue weight!!!! It must be your trailer weight and if the trailer is 12,000 pounds and you are using 13 percent for the tongue then your tongue weight would be around 1560 pounds. If this is correct you do not have enough hitch and perhaps not enough receiver either.
And if you are close to 12,000 empty as you indicated then you most likely will be over 13,000 loaded and ready for camping and that would be a tongue weight of around 1700 pounds.
And since it is a toyhauler you will likely add more like 2000 pounds of stuff and toys and water as haulers typically carry lots of water and that will equate to a tongue weight of 1800 pounds. You may be getting marginal with your truck to tow this toyhauler as it probably has a gross weight of 14,000 or more pounds. One very important rule of thumb is to never use dry or empty weights for any towing considerations. Use gross trailer weight and make your calculations about the hitch, receiver and truck based on that. If you find you are a little under gross then you have a small safety margin.
