Vehicle "rise" while towing.
Have towed for years with various vehicles. And have always followed the general rule of levelling the tow vehicle front, back to pre-tow hookup. In fact, I just read through most of the Sticky at the...
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ktmrfs wrote:
Goal from manufacturer for almost all vehicles today is for the vehicle to understeer under most conditions.
Hence the reason they plow like a John Deere in the back 40 field.
There is a reason trucks handle bad from the factory and you hit on the reason. They tried to mitigate the problem by jamming the engine up under the dash but as you said, they still can't get 50/50. (nor do they want too) In the old days people used to put a steel plate in the back of their truck. Or bags of sand. The reasons were the same.....to get the truck to handle better in all conditions.
Like I said above, the goal of a well handling road vehicle is to get all 4 tires working the same. I set my towing truck up where the weight bias is around 52/48 when the trailer is connected. Like I said above, this is a compromise, but a compromise that works well.
If you like your truck to plow like a pig in a turn so be it, but I want a well handling truck when I tow.
