WD Question For Ron

Bob Landry wrote:
If you have a conventional tow trailer with a tongue weight of 1000 and with a properly adjusted WD, 300lbs is transferred back to the steering axle and the remaining 700lbs is transferred back to the trailer axles, how much weight have you added to the payload of the truck besides the weight of the hitch?

In order to transfer 300# back onto the steer axle, the WDH would have to transferred about 150# to the TT axles and would have removed about 450# from the drive axle.

You would have added about 1000-150 = 850# to the TV, not including the weight of the hitch.

Ron