2 sway bars on a pull behind trailer
I've got a 32 foot trailer and I get real tired every time a bigger vehicle passes me my trailer sways back and forth. Just wondering, other than price to buy it, is there anything negative about...
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tewitt1949 wrote:
I think the tongue weight is 800 lbs.
The 'I think' in this sentence suggests, to me, that you are basing your tongue weight on the 'dry' data of the trailer - which is a useless number. IF this is where you are getting the number, then your tongue is NOT 800 pounds, it is higher than that. It may be too low, it may not be - you won't know without going to the scale to weight it. As others have said, your tongue weight should be in the 12-15% range of your total trailer weight. But, I would not start trying to redistribute the load to the tongue without knowing what the real weight is.
Also, just confirming that you are actually talking about sway. I, too, get pushed by large rigs (there's really little way to avoid that with a large trailer in tow and big rigs flying by), but I get pushed as a single unit - trailer and truck together in line. That is different than sway, where the 'tail wags the dog,' which I don't experience at all. If it is, in fact, sway, check your weights to make sure you are in ratings and then, if you are, begin working with more/better sway control as a solution.
All I am suggesting is that you make sure you aren't masking a problem with your set-up with more sway control. Make sure everything is in line on weights and capacities and THEN use better sway control to tune it in.
