Help with hitch / tongue weight
Hello All! I'm in the early stages of camper shopping (wanting to upgrade) and I would love some help understanding the tongue weight limits. I have read on 1000 different sites that the max tongue w...
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odis wrote:
Not to hijack the tread but...I'm the guy with the razor in the truck bed.
If my WDH was set up before I had the razor ( I hauled 2 dirt bikes before in bed of truck) with my camper in tow. Will it still be set up adding the razor to the bed? The truck does not squat with the 1150 extra #'s.i have not hooked the camper up yet.
Also if I go to a cat scale will they tell me axle weights?
Thanks
Jim
This is not my thread so I can't speak for the OP and IMO because of what I believe is a wide spread misunderstanding by a lot of folks about what we are really talking about with this "CARGO ADDED aft of the rear axle of the TV" I would caution you in believing w/o some sort of third party confirmation.
First thing I would do is get a complete set of weights w/o the RZR loaded which will give you your true trailer only tongue wt. and how much weight is redistributed to the trailer and TV axles when the WDH is engaged/hooked up. Then I think I would get a set of wts with the RZR loaded and the WDH engaged. I would then compare the amount of wt transferred to the trailer axles with and w/o the RZR in the bed and use a ratio for w/o try and guessimate what adjusted tongue wt. would give the new TT axle wt. added with the RZR loaded. I would then assess how this new "ADJUSTED TONGUE WT." might effect the current WDH system specs.
I'm sure there might be more accurate ways to do this, but I can't think of them right off hand, but maybe someone else might have some other good ideas on how to proceed with this.
As long as I didn't exceed the tongue wt ratings for either the WDH bars, or receiver by more than like 100lbs using this new "ADJUSTED TONGUE WT." then I wouldn't probably worry about it. If much over then I might consider doing something different. Of course as a last resort you could always set up your WDH sys with the RZR loaded, but then you need to initially assess if loading the RZR itself unloads the front axle on your TV too much weight wise. It's not all about heights, but it's the weight especially on the steer axle that is the critical parameter and even with just the RZR that could become an issue even w/o hooking up a trailer.
Good Luck and let us know maybe in a new thread how you proceeded and what you found out.
Larry
