Difficulty Reducing Tongue Weight

drsteve wrote:

SGS2019 wrote:

George3037 wrote:

mkirsch wrote:
I still don't know what your problem *IS* to even make a recommendation. "Tows poorly" is meaningless, and you *are* driving scared even if you don't think so. It's subconscious. You mentioned the accident and how it affected you.

I would gladly make a recommendation, if only there was even a halfway concise description of a problem.

Too much tongue weight isn't your problem, and trying to reduce it with ballast... You'll have over 2000lbs in the back of your trailer before you see an appreciable change in tongue weight. The axles are simply too far back for that to work.

I still think his problem is that he is running "P" tires on his truck as I mentioned on page one. Needs to put at least LT tires on the truck.

I tell you what, I filled my P tires to max and I could tell the difference. It seems like a pretty decent tire as well, has 2 ply in the sidewall. Hankook dynapro at-m, 275/55/20.

You have found your problem, or at least the biggest problem. Load range E tires are a ten ply rating, they are much stiffer than a P tire.

Load range E tires are not needed with the 275/55/20s with that short sidewall as I have the same exact tires on my 2018 truck...They work very well towing my trailer and have done so on this truck for 8k worth of towing so far...My 2011 has 275/65/18s on it and I put Load E tires on it because of the larger sidewall and the 2018 with the P rated is just as firm as the E rated tires on my 2011...the key is having the P rated tires aired to the max like he has changed too now. I air mine cold the rears 50 and fronts 47...when they heat up they get to 50 in the front and 53 in the rear while towing...