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IDoMyOwnStunts
May 18, 2016Explorer
nickthehunter wrote:
Seeing as it is a toy hauler, move 500 lbs of toys off the tongue and onto the trailer axle and you'll be good to go. You're only 1900 lbs over the published weight, if 637 (33 percent) of that is on the tongue then that is on you.
While, yeah, I agree that it's on me, I honestly don't want to unpack and repack cabinets forward of the axles (which is nearly all of them) or move what's in the basement to the people space (I don't have a separate garage) just to take some weight off the tongue. I don't think that brochure weight included the generator either since that was an option. The truck drives fine and still has an 1800 lb receiver. The Blue Ox (or other) is just more of a want than a need right now. It'd be nice to get rid of those friction sway bars.
I guess the point of it was that if I still had my 150, I'd be panicked about now. It's a shame I wasn't educated about it when I bought the thing or I wouldn't have had to spend so much to get it right after the fact. I wish dealers would be more forthcoming about what these trailers really weigh instead of trying to push them out the door. There's no way I should've driven off with that trailer with only a half-ton.
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