WDH with a F350?

mkirsch wrote:
A Jayco Eagle 314BHDS is not a "light weight" trailer. Jayco's website lists the dry weight at 8110, and the GVWR at 9975lbs!

That trailer could easily have a 1500lb tongue weight, which would make an F350 feel floaty without enough WD action.

Physics is physics, too.

Weight from the trailer tongue presses down on the truck's receiver hitch, which lifts on the front end, whether your truck is a Ranger, F150, F250, F350, F450, etc..

The amount of weight lifted off the front end is based on the trailer tongue weight, and the distance from the rear axle to the hitch ball. If a trailer lifts 350lbs off the front axle of an F150 long bed regular cab, it will lift 350lbs off the front axle of an F350 long bed regular cab, even if it has a Powerstroke engine.

While a heavier-duty truck should be tolerant of having more weight lifted off the front end due to its higher empty weight, if you lift enough weight off the front end it will start to feel "floaty."

+1. The truck is designed to carry weight in the bed, where it's likely to be more centered over the rear axle. In that case it will not cause any weight to be removed from the front end. Place 1500# on a hitch ball 3' behind the axle and you have a nice lever.