New trailer swaying, looking for advice
Hello! Brand new posting, but have read the forum for a long time. Brief intro.. We have camped for many years, our first camper was a 17 foot Palomino Stampede Hybrid. We towed it with a Nissa...
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Offhand I’m not familiar with your Scamp, but I’m pretty confident it’s a single axle. I pull an older 16’ SA TT. When I pulled it with a full size Bronco I’d occasionally get some minor sway which I immediately tweaked out with the manual controller. It wasn’t bad, but I always had to be conscious of it. When I went to an F150 I never had a hint of a sway again, it tracks like a rock. I attributed it to the longer wheelbase, but I don’t know that for a fact.
Oddly enough, I only have 10% of my TT GVW on the tongue, which is light. I’d expect 12-15%. My water tank is right at the axle and if I fill it I put 20# more on my TW. So I wonder where your tank is in relation to the axle. You wouldn’t want it behind the axle because that’s a lot of weight to take off the tongue. And it sounds like your problem is light TW.
If I were in your shoes the next trip I made loaded to go I’d hit a scale and weigh the TV only and then the TV and TT hooked up. You’d then have real numbers to work with and you’d know your TW. Dry weights aren’t much use to you. I don’t use wd or sway control and I wouldn’t think you should need it either on that light a TT.
If your water tank is toward the front of the axle you could fill it, that would put weight on the tongue. Or you could load as much as possible forward to get the same effect. But until you confirm your TW is good you don’t know what else to look for.
Oddly enough, I only have 10% of my TT GVW on the tongue, which is light. I’d expect 12-15%. My water tank is right at the axle and if I fill it I put 20# more on my TW. So I wonder where your tank is in relation to the axle. You wouldn’t want it behind the axle because that’s a lot of weight to take off the tongue. And it sounds like your problem is light TW.
If I were in your shoes the next trip I made loaded to go I’d hit a scale and weigh the TV only and then the TV and TT hooked up. You’d then have real numbers to work with and you’d know your TW. Dry weights aren’t much use to you. I don’t use wd or sway control and I wouldn’t think you should need it either on that light a TT.
If your water tank is toward the front of the axle you could fill it, that would put weight on the tongue. Or you could load as much as possible forward to get the same effect. But until you confirm your TW is good you don’t know what else to look for.
