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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rexlion wrote:
A 3/4 ton pickup to tow a 16' TT weighing less than 2500 lbs. Yup. Better make sure it's a diesel, too. :R
Good grief is right.
My situation - My trailer has water tank in front of the axle. The trailer weighs 3800# loaded, with about 480# on the tongue. Without water, it sits just under 3600#, with about 360# on the tongue. It tows fine, with the odd provoked wobble. I purposely tow with the tank full when I can, but when coming home front remote camping, I'm dry with by behind the axle black tank with prolly 100# in it. That leaves me in the low 300#'s on the hitch, and it gets jiggly, maybe wobbly, but never sways appreciably, but at that point I can feel it.
Point being, 10% can yield a very nice balanced tow setup, especially with the Honda, which recommends against WDH, and does not like heavy tongue weight. Note that it's a fine line at or below that number.
Something else going on here. When you loaded the extra 40# in the trailer, (call it 30 on the tongue), that should equal close to 12%, that should have quelled the sway completely.
