Can this weight be right?
Hello all, I went camping last week and finally got around to going over a scale at a truck stop with my Tahoe, 23 ft toy hauler TT, 2kids and 2 dogs. Everything except people and dogs were in the ...
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A few thoughts:
- Do you have the hitch set up correctly? With a front engine, the truck should have around 60% of the weight on the front axle to begin with (approx 3600#). So you are down by around 1000#, which would be what I would expect if there was no weight distributing hitch (approx 3000# hitch weight 1/3 the wheel base behind the front axle will pull approx 1000# off the front axle). While you might take some weight off the front axle with a weight distributing hitch, that seems like an awful lot (maybe reweigh the truck by itself to make sure my assumptions aren't off)
- If you add a water tank, definetly keep it at or behind the trailer axles.
- Do you have the hitch set up correctly? With a front engine, the truck should have around 60% of the weight on the front axle to begin with (approx 3600#). So you are down by around 1000#, which would be what I would expect if there was no weight distributing hitch (approx 3000# hitch weight 1/3 the wheel base behind the front axle will pull approx 1000# off the front axle). While you might take some weight off the front axle with a weight distributing hitch, that seems like an awful lot (maybe reweigh the truck by itself to make sure my assumptions aren't off)
- If you add a water tank, definetly keep it at or behind the trailer axles.
