WDH with a F350?
Pulled my trailer for the first time with my new 2016 Ford F-350 and it didn't handle no where near as well as I thought it would. WDH down one link and felt like front end floating. Stopped and set...
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Hannibal wrote:shum02 wrote:
Set the WDH to the least amount of compression because you need next to ZERO!
Had the same issue with my rig, don't fight the truck or even think about compressing the front springs to move ANY weight forward. The truck does not need any of that.
This is how I approached our new Jayco 28RLS with it's 32.5' length and 850~lb tongue weight. Sitting it on the ball lowers the rear 2.5" while the front doesn't change. My Reese HP WDH is purely to satisfy the rating of the receiver. I hook the chains to their last link. Tows great. We feel cross winds and the occasional box truck but other than that, it actually feels better than our previous 5th wheel.
I'm betting the new tires are the culprit. Mine tracked like a boat even without the trailer when I put the Firestones on two years ago. 2k miles made a big difference.
I also found this to be true on my 2015 F250 (badically the same truck as the f350 without the overload springs in the rear)
I came from a Tundra pulling my 25' (6500lb empty/8000lb loaded) trailer, and initially I used the same setting from the tundra with 5 links under tension with the Reese Dual Cam WDH (1200lb bars). with this setup it towed ok, but not as stable as the Tundra, when small cars would pass, I would feel the trailer getting pulled...oddly Semi trucks didn't affect it as much.
I then moved to 6 links under tension and it tows much better. Initially I was trying to get the front closer to the unloaded height (it was only 1" higher), but no matter what I did, it didn't move much.
pulls much better with very little weight on the bars...at my tongue weight they are pretty much just there for sway control.
