I'm A new member I like this Forum. I hope someone can give me some advice I just bout a Ford F150 its a 3.5 twin turbo and its very lite 5900 pounds We have a 28 ft. Salem I took it on a short run and it was fine but when I took it on the interstate it kept wanting to fish tail at 60 and above I have a WD do I have it to tight I have pulled a lot of trailers but never had this problam any ideas

Sounds like you might have too much weight in the rear of the trailer,try moving some forward or adjusting tank levels. Don t know much about your type of hitch but someone here will.

Bumpers53 wrote:I'm A new member I like this Forum. I hope someone can give me some advice I just bout a Ford F150 its a 3.5 twin turbo and its very lite 5900 pounds We have a 28 ft. Salem I took it on a short run and it was fine but when I took it on the interstate it kept wanting to fish tail at 60 and above I have a WD do I have it to tight I have pulled a lot of trailers but never had this problam any ideasAlong with your WD Hitch... do you have a "friction" sway bar attached?

IME the most common cause of sway like you're describing is too little tongue weight as SARGUY alludes. Make sure 10-15% of the trailer weight is on the tongue and then adjust your hitch for a level trailer and no more than about 1/4" rise on the front fenders. Don't mess with friction sway bars until you've corrected the problem. Then you can use them to help with minor symptoms.

Take your truck and trailer to a certified scale and get the real weights of the total rig - individual weights of each truck axle; then reweigh just the trailer on the sales and the truck off the scales - still hooked up. Try to get the two trailer axles on different scale segments. Finally drop the trailer and weigh just the truck alone.That will give you the exact tongue weight, along with showing you how much the trailer lifts weight off the front wheels. If the trailer axles show different weights - it will indicate which end of the trailer is heavier.I had an F-150, and I soon realized a 28 foot trailer has more sail area than the truck can handle in certain wind / travel conditions. You might need more weight in the truck to steady the rig.The other suggestions are good fixes, but you need to know the real weights.Also, with that light of a truck and heavy of a trailer - you might need to keep your speeds closer to 55 mph.

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Sport45
Explorer II
Jul 19, 2016
IME the most common cause of sway like you're describing is too little tongue weight as SARGUY alludes. Make sure 10-15% of the trailer weight is on the tongue and then adjust your hitch for a level trailer and no more than about 1/4" rise on the front fenders. Don't mess with friction sway bars until you've corrected the problem. Then you can use them to help with minor symptoms.
AmericalVette
Explorer
Jul 19, 2016
Bumpers53 wrote:
I'm A new member I like this Forum. I hope someone can give me some advice I just bout a Ford F150 its a 3.5 twin turbo and its very lite 5900 pounds We have a 28 ft. Salem I took it on a short run and it was fine but when I took it on the interstate it kept wanting to fish tail at 60 and above I have a WD do I have it to tight I have pulled a lot of trailers but never had this problam any ideas

Along with your WD Hitch... do you have a "friction" sway bar attached?
SARGUY
Explorer
Jul 19, 2016
Sounds like you might have too much weight in the rear of the trailer,try moving some forward or adjusting tank levels. Don t know much about your type of hitch but someone here will.

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