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Cup_fan
Explorer
Mar 12, 2016

Weight distribution with a single axle trailer?

I've been towing travel trailers for years and mine have always been big enough that I needed a weight distribution hitch. I'm going with my brother-in-law today to look at campers, and one of the tra...
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mkirsch
Nomad II
Mar 18, 2016
Check the owner's manual. Many single-axle trailers can't use a WD hitch because the tongue is built too light to take the force.

He will definitely want a WD hitch on a tandem axle trailer running 4600lbs dry, though. His truck's receiver is only rated for 500lbs tongue weight without one, and this trailer will easily exceed that when loaded.

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