WD If Delivering Trailers
I once considered delivering trailers but decided against it. But a question came to me that I never got an answer to. What do you do about WD? The factories don't ship them with hitches that the d...
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cekkk wrote:TucsonJim wrote:
WD, WDH, RA, FA, FEA, TT, wt, FA<, AS, SOL, :@:E
I'm still pretty much a newbie, but my guesses are WD weight distribution, WDH weight distribution hitch, RA rear axle, FA front axle, FEA ?front end axle?, TT travel trailer, wt weight, FA< ??, AS anti-sway, SOL sh...:E
We have a dually and have only had two TTs, both with 1400# on the hitch. Before I had the WDH properly set up, my front end was clearly elevated and steering severely affected. OTOH, the first TT was a TH with the front deck. TW was only around 500 stock, and the F350 pulled it without WD from Chicago to Colorado just fine. I would guess that truck wouldn't need WD until the tongue was seeing over 700, 750#.
But I'm no pro hauler, and the suspension is stock. The early replies made it understandable why few delivery drivers need WD even for the thousand and 1200# TTs.
Close, FEA was front end alignment being out of too much wt on the rear. FA>, probably should have been an FA., but phat phinners got in the way! SOL......yep, you got it!
While some on here say the amount taken off the front will always be a ratio of the over hang vs wheel base. Personally I have found it also varies with the rear suspension amount, along with how much engine one has in the front. IE a HEAVY gas BB or equal will allow less wt off the FA vs a SB or V6 in the same truck. Along with a diesel will have some more counter to the equation too. My dumptruck with a 15.5K rear spring capacity, hardly notices my 1500 lbs of HW with my equipment trailer hooked to it. Typically when wieghed at the local DOT scales, 60-80 lbs is taken off the FA, Meanwhile my 05 dually with an 8500 lb RA has 200-240 taken off. A SW CC with the same WB as the dually with 6400 lb springs had 300-340 taken off of it. WHen I replaced the 6400 lb springs with 8400 lb ones, the front wt removed is on par with the dually.
If one can keep the HW to as close to the RA as one can, less wt will be pulled off the FA, so one has a better handling rig! Longer WB also helps in the how much is take off the FA too.
I'll stick with my for 30 some odd years of towing different types of trailers, that if I can not pull without bars, and get fishtail sway, I will correct the cause so the effect is nothing! THEN hook up appropriate bars for additional safety reasons. Otherwise if you use an AS system to stop uncontrolled fishtail sway, you are using a bandaid when you need a tourniquet!
Marty
