2018 F-150 hype....believe it or not?
So while looking into travel trailers, I’m also looking into the trucks to pull it. I’m applying the same rule of weights that I was applying to truck campers when I was looking into them; whatever th...
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troubledwaters wrote:Actually all the clothes and tools were up front adding tongue weight. It had two slides plus more storage on the street side and the kitchen/pantry on the curb side. My thought is I was unbalancing the weight left to right wheels. The street side of the TT weighed more than the curb side and all the additional storage was street side.2112 wrote:You're absolutely right, it was the way you had it packed. Not enough tongue weight. Too much weight behind the axles when you packed it heavy as compared to lightly packed.
...I'm a weekend warrior working stiff to date so my F-150 serves us well. It struggled keeping our previous loaded 9000lb 35' TT (2011 Outback 277RL) from swaying. I was convinced the problem was the way I had it packed. Empty it towed great, lightly packed it towed great. Once I added all the clothes, kitchen items and tools it went squirrely....
And hooking a bigger truck to it was going to "fix" the problem (might help to mask it so you can pretend it's not there anymore).
