Trailer Bounce oscillations

ApexAZ wrote:
Hi all,

I have some experience towing small toy trailers < 3k lbs, but never anything as big or heavy as our new toyhauler.

Is it normal to feel the back end bouncing / oscillating up and down when you go over bumps?

I'll say 100% normal. She's a big piggy, and your 1 ton springs and whatever the wdh is pulling off for weight is just fine with your truck.
Toyhaulers are (obviously) tongue heavy and axles further rearward to handle the weight of "toys."
The result is a trailer that especially with no significant weight back in the garage area, pulls very straight but also has a large cantilever from the axles to the tongue. So you're going to feel it more in the ass end of the truck. But that's why trucks have springs and shocks.

Like me, you're lifted and probably have a 6/4 lift so it's level unloaded.
Loosing a few hundred lbs off the front axle makes ZERO difference. Already got a diesel anchoring the front end and it's probably still heavier on the FA than a gas truck. I call all but guarantee the front end doesn't feel light or wander.

I installed bags, but I'm not using a wdh and I have coil spring Ram 2500 so the bare tongue weight of the trailer was dropping the back of the truck alot. Looked like the Carolina squat.
The bags not only level the truck but take out the bounce of having a significant load on the springs.