First long distance tow, questions
We took our travel trailer on our first long distance trip this past weekend. Did about 500 miles round trip. Kept the speeds at 60-65mph or lower depending on curves, so I would say for the first eve...
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dodge guy wrote:dodge guy wrote:
The porposing usually comes from insufficient tongue weight. were talking as little as 50-100lbs. you need to know the ready to travel trailer weight so you can get the proper tongue weight (12-13%) and then be sure you have a WD system rated for your loaded tongue weight.
Or an over adjusted WD hitch, and/or an oversized WD hitch.
In my case, with about 1100 lbs tongue I'm over 13% on a 34' trailer, so I'm guessing my porpoising, though not excessive, is mainly softly sprung F 150, and/or not enough shock dampening, and more likely the latter. Probably not the case with the OP's setup given the trailer length/tongue weight. I'm betting light tongue.
