Weight Distribution Hitch Adjustment Question

bosworthj wrote:
The roads getting to the expressway around our house are a little rough, and I have noticed some "porpising" while towing.

When the road is rough, especially concrete interstate, porpoising is unavoidable with a heavy trailer. We just ride with it. As long as it's not porpoising on level highway.

bosworthj wrote:
On the expressway I have also noticed a slight wag in the rear of the trailer from what I am seeing in my side mirror. It is never severe and always corrects itself. There have been some windy trips home that were a bit white knuckle though.

Is this wag constant or only with a gust of wind or passing truck? Box trucks are worse than 18 wheelers in my experience. Ours will wag on occasion and straighten out on it's own. This is normal. We've caravanned with others using sway control hitches and we could see their trailers wag as much as ours with no sway control in strong cross winds. They may have felt it less with sway control. I saw our 32' 5th wheel wag in the wind through my side view mirrors but never felt it in the truck. On one trip out I-10 in the Florida panhandle, the strong crosswind and constant passing trucks called for constant corrections on the steering wheel of about 2" either way. It was annoying but not scary. The first time I felt this with our first TT in '94, it was scary. Now I'm used to it and it's just part of towing a TT for me.

bosworthj wrote:
The dealer setup the hitch and the guy said that he got it pretty level and was happy with it. He marked the chain link I should be using. Based on what I have read, it sounds like there might not be enough tension on my bars. My main question is though should I be messing around taking in a link when the guy that does this every day said to use the one link?

If the truck and trailer sit level together and it tows well when no other influences are pushing it around or bouncing, I'd have to believe it's set up correctly. Our TT settles the rear of the truck 2" and the WDH brings it back up 1". This works well for us.

bosworthj wrote:
Some more info: I got new tires last fall. There was a mixup and the tire place and they ended up giving me Load Class E tires. I was okay with that. I have been running them at 45psi which is what the truck calls for. They are rated up to 80 though I think, should I be running them higher? Weight of the gear and people in the truck is right around 700#. Dry weight of the trailer is 5700# and most of my gear is in the front storage under the bed at the tongue. It does have a rear kitchen though and an outdoor kitchen so I know the fridges are adding some weight back there. Fresh water tank is over the axels and while I occasionally pull with water in there I never pull with the gray or black tanks full.

Thanks in advance.

New tires will have some tread squirm until they wear in a little. My new Firestone TransForce HT's were pretty squirmy for the first 2k~ miles. I agree with above. Air them up to 60psi and see how it feels.
I'm not a big fan of rear kitchens for the reason you stated. Load as much as you can in front of the axles to compensate. Even with proper loading, you still have a lot of weight aft of the trailer axles.
If you're using a single friction bar and feel like you need more, I would recommend an Equalizer or Reese DC hitch. Just my humble $.02.