Can this weight be right?
Hello all, I went camping last week and finally got around to going over a scale at a truck stop with my Tahoe, 23 ft toy hauler TT, 2kids and 2 dogs. Everything except people and dogs were in the ...
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Fixed Sight Training wrote:
The 12,000 lb was my mistake. I totaled the numbers. Johnson storage wants $12 per weigh so I totaled the numbers myself and it's a typo and the one number I really didn't care about. As long as I'm not over on the axles and it handles fine I'm happy.
The second weigh didn't have 600 lbs of people, dogs and stuff in the Tahoe as well as only 1/3 tanks of fuel. Also no 45 gals of water, black or grey in the tanks, food, toys etc that was there in the first weigh.
I am going to tilt the head so I can add a few lengths of chain but apparently I don't want to torque the Tahoe hitch too much so I'm not going to tighten the WD bars anymore.
I know exactly what it feels like when the truck gets too light on the steers and this is just not the case.
Thanks for the input.
As the TT hitch has been totally modified and would not be able to use the normal chain brackets.
I do not think you can add any links to chain. The frame chain brackets do not seem to be the normal looking brackets.
The chain bracket on your TT are lower on the frame than a normal chain load lever bracket that calls for the 4 to 5 links. Some of that could be made up with a taller TT hitch ball.
Your chain mounting system would seem to not give the play needed going over humps in the road and driveways that a system with 4 to 5 links would.
A good weight distribution hitch system should be capable to restore the front weight to at least 200 to 300 lbs of the empty front weight and maybe even back to all of the empty front
end weight.
